P4 Blog
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July 15, 2011
by Tom Tyler
Experienced engineers tend to have good CM instincts. I like to think CM knowledge and practices help put a solid engineer at the top of their craft.
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July 13, 2011
by Bryan Pendleton
As computing devices become increasingly mobile, software engineers are having to pay increasing attention to power management. Recently, I've been following a fascinating discussion about the intricacies of the subject, involving two communities of systems software engineers:
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July 12, 2011
by Randy DeFauw
Working at a technology company, its easy to focus a lot on the cool new features in a product. But of course most Perforce users are interested in how Perforce can make their work easier and help them solve tough problems. That's why I really enjoy visiting our customers occasionally. Even when I'm teaching a training class, I get to hear about the types of problems our users encounter.
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July 07, 2011
by Alexandra Weber Morales
Friday marks the final launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis and the end of a 30-year trajectory for America’s Space Transportation System. As always, spacevidcast.com, sponsored by Perforce, will be there to document the historic event with high-definition video and absorbing interviews.
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June 30, 2011
by Randy DeFauw
The New Yorker recently ran an interesting article on neuroscientist David Eagleman. Part of Eagleman's research is on the varying perceptions of time, and the oddball effect is a simple experiment that illustrates how the mind doesn't always track elapsed time accurately. In the experiment, you watch a series of simple images flashing on a screen. Most of the images are of a brown shoe, but every once in a while you see a flower instead.
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June 29, 2011
by Bryan Pendleton
Starting with version 2010.2, 'p4 set' on Mac OS X can now be used to set Perforce variables as user or system preferences in your Mac preferences folder. For example, you can do:
p4 set P4USER=bryanto persistently store the definition of the P4USER variable on your Mac, and then you don't have to remember to set it each time.
When you do this, the variable is added to a "plist" file in your preferences folder, i.e., to
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