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May 28, 2011
by Laurette Cisneros
I'd like to open a portal (my favorite game!) to provide a view into builds at Perforce. For a while, we had a series of cron driven scripts to do nightly builds for most of our products. However, with several development groups using Agile and Kanban and the need for testing on a more than once daily but rather cyclical basis, it was time to make the move to automated continuous builds. We considered our options including building our own framework, but, as we already had our hands full, we went with the Electric Commander tool. Soon after we attended the Electric C
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May 27, 2011
by Randy DeFauw
This series of articles highlights Perforce's integration and technology partners. Expect to see future article in this series about once a month. Be sure to check out Electric Cloud at the Perforce User Conference.
Background
Electric Cloud makes ElectricCommander and ElectricAccelerator. Electric Cloud is a long-time member of Perforce's technology integration program, and is also a sponsor of this year's Perforce User Conference.
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May 26, 2011
by Randy DeFauw
This article is the second in a series introducing streams in the context of concrete use cases. In this article I’ll look at using streams to simplify development and release management work in a traditional software project.
I’ll be working with a software product called Jam, which goes through a very traditional development and release cycle. Those of you who have been through a Perforce training class will recognize Jam, an open source build tool that we use for our sample and training databases.
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May 25, 2011
by James Creasy
This post is part of a series. This week is a look at what is coming from Perforce in the immediate future as we lead up to the User Conference next week.
Perforce is looking deep into the future of SCM. We are studying the new crop of open source SCM tools, emerging technologies, and the profuse and creative solutions that customers have built on Perforce to be sure that, wherever your SCM needs take you, we’ll be there.
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May 24, 2011
by Stewart Lord
A couple of years ago at ZendCon, I saw a twitter visualizer called Visible Tweets. It was being used to feature attendee comments during the keynote.
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May 23, 2011
by Lou Leporace
This post is part of a series. This week is a look at what is coming from Perforce in the immediate future as we lead up to the User Conference next week.
Did you know that only one in four of the top one million web sites is created and managed with a commercial or open source Content Management System (CMS) tool yet hundreds of CMS products are available either for purchase or free download?
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