2006 European User Conference

Conference Summary

We would like to extend our thanks to everyone who attended and made Perforce Software's first European User Conference held at the Marriott County Hall, London, such a success. We hope you enjoyed meeting other Perforce users and hearing how Perforce is being used at their companies. We hope to see even more Perforce users at our next European conference.

Presentations

Distributed Development at Symbian

by Deepak Modgil, Symbian Ltd

An overview of how Symbian Software implement a distributed development environment, the issues they face, and some solutions to those issues.

Perforce Best Practices at SAP

by Thomas Kroll and Claudia Loff, SAP

SAP's R&D organization is distributed around the world and high availability of their development environment is a must. This presentation covers both the technical implementation of the Perforce server environment and the codeline/release structure, which are driven by the production processes at SAP.

Process Automation for Perforce

by Robert Cowham, Vaccaperna Consulting

This talk features a Perforce Consulting Partner's experience with process automation. It will cover different opportunities for automation in Perforce and their appropriate use.

From Chaos to Order: Perforce and Continuous Integration

by Sean Cody and Kevin Breidenbach, Bank of America

This presentation covers the GFX and Risk Services Group's independent migration paths from Clearcase to Perforce. It will include the migration experiences, the issues that the teams were experiencing and the benefits realised from the adoption of Perforce, the code organisation models chosen and the challenges faced.

Performance and Database Locking at Large Perforce Sites

by Dan Bloch, Google

This talk looks at performance issues found at large sites with a particular focus on database locking and performance. It will include the Perforce database and locking model, process model and the errorlog, as well as Google's server performance monitoring tool.

Performance Update through 2006.1

by Michael Shields, Perforce Software

Perforce takes seriously the "Fast" in its "Fast Software Configuration Management System" tag line. This paper discusses performance features and fixes introduced in the latest releases. Also discussed are a few tips and tricks that may help improve the overall performance of your Perforce installation.

Convergence vs. Divergence: Purposeful Merging with Perforce

by Laura Wingerd, Perforce Software

A discussion of branching and merging files, three-way merging, which branches should converge and which should diverge. Using purposeful merging how to get the merge result you want.