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August 26, 2011
by Randy DeFauw
Here at Perforce we’ve been following the discussion about distributed version control solutions with great interest. Although distributed version control has obvious appeal if you have a sporadic or low bandwidth connection to your SCM server, some of the workflow implications are equally compelling.
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August 24, 2011
by Christopher Siewald
Perforce just celebrated its 15th anniversary at a party that I hope everyone enjoyed as much as I did. As with many people who have put on a few years but still feel young, it's hard to imagine that Perforce has hit 15. In many ways, we still feel like a startup.
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August 22, 2011
by Nellie LeMonier
Driving a car is a life skill that most of us have needed to learn. You need to know how to merge correctly or else accidents happen, especially if you don't look in your blind spot. So it is in collaborative software development, merging is unavoidable.
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August 19, 2011
by Patrick McGarry
Last week TechCrunch posted news of a new Google+ hack that allowed hangouts to also share a text pad with the stated goal of sharing code.
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August 17, 2011
by Bryan Pendleton
For many decades, chess players have incorporated computers into their game. We have chess-playing software, of course, to provide a computerized opponent; this software has improved to the point where it is now useful as a training tool at even the highest level of chess, as I wrote about before.
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August 15, 2011
by Randy DeFauw
The idea of merging bugs has immediate appeal to release managers. On a daily basis, developers may think in terms of modifying files and submitting a batch of files (a changelist). But release managers usually think in terms of bugs or tasks slated for a release.
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