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The Premier Magaznine for Configuration Management
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February 2006 - Vol. 5 No. 2
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The Impact of Open Source on Application Development
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Welcome to the Configuration Management Journal from CM Crossroads a monthly publication of CM Crossroads that focuses on a wide variety of configuration management and related development topics.
This month the CM Journal writers discuss the proliferation of Open Source Software in the global development community. In the past people looked at open source as a cheap alternative to purchasing commercial software but there were always concerns about support and stability. Today, however open source projects are making huge gains in enterprise development forcing ISVs to find new ways to market their solutions. And deploying and open source application now often means that you will have much greater levels of support potentially with hundreds of developers and integrators. We would like your input on how open source solutions are used in our organization. You may post your comments by using the READ MORE link by any article or take our Quick Poll on Open Source.
Also, if you are interested in writing for for the CM Journal, speaking at ALM Expo 2006 or just have a comment on an article please Let us Know.
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Agile SCM
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The Unchangeable Rules of Software Change (and what to do about it)
by Robert Cowham, Brad Appleton and Steve Berczuk
This month we examine the fundamental truths about project and requirements changes: What can we control? What is beyond our control? What are some of the common perils and pitfalls of change-control and iterative development? We discuss how to avoid many of these common pitfalls without creating new ones along the way, and provide a wealth of resources for first-timers to iterative development.
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<Sponsored By AccuRev>
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CM: The Next Generation
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Will Open Source Dominate Development Management?
by Joe Farah
Open Source is a great concept. Many resisted at first. Can you remember a time when it was valid to use the argument: nobody will commit to supporting it so you're taking your chances. Today, I see it differently - there's loads of support for open source products, even better than for commercial products in many cases. So does that make it the winner?
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<Sponsored By Aldon>
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Road to Quality
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Affordable Peer Reviews
by Alan S. Koch
Many people know that peer reviews can help them to produce better-quality products. But most organizations do not use this potent tool. Why? Because although they would like to experience the quality benefits, they can't justify the costs they would incur.
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< Sponsored by Techexcel >
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Open Source or Open Season
by Randy Wagner
Vendors will tell you that you get what you pay for. Open source people will tell you they are liberated from the matrix. Who should we believe? Can we get what we need in free tools? Can we build what we need? Are we doomed to the annual tyranny of maintenance fees? The truth is in here somewhere. Answering those questions requires three things: answers, answers, and persistence. The very first answer you need is to the question, “what are my needs?” If I’m a single developer, doing my own thing, I have very different needs from NASA who’s coding for a Mars mission. If I’m using VSS but I want some level of integration with issue tracking, can I get that from an open source tool? What level of reporting functionality do my users need? Can my business users get the data they need from the tool without having to come to IT for a special report? How much parallel development will I do? Do I have offshore resources I have to deal with? Do I have traceability requirements to satisfy Audit? Is there an integration between my testing tool and the issue tracking system?
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CM Crossroads Webcast Series
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12 Tasty 'Make' Recipes, Part 1
Thurs. Feb. 23 - 1:00 PM Eastern / 10:00 AM Pacific / 1800 UTC
Expand your software build repertoire -- join us for the first in a series of discussions of practical techniques for enhancing and optimizing your GNU Make Makefiles. In this session, John Graham-Cumming presents three "recipes" for improving Makefiles. Recipe 1 shows how to find the name of the Makefile currently being handled by make; recipe 2 shows how a build manager can force an engineer to set the right options before running Make; recipe 3 makes Makefiles self-documenting. If your builds are not as fast or as reliable as you would like them to be, this is one presentation you will not want to miss.
[Register now and enter to win an Apple iPod]
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Book of the Month
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Practical Perforce - by Laura Wingerd
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Was $39.99 - Now $26.37
Buy it Online at Amazon
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Authored by Perforce's own VP of product technology, Practical Perforce is the ideal complement to the existing product manual, focusing less on the 'how" and more on the "why" and "when." The book is not only a helpful introduction to Perforce, it's an enlightening resource for those already familiar with this versatile SCM product. Whether you're a programmer, product manager, or build engineer, you stand to benefit from the many insider tips and ideas presented in this convenient guide.
Practical Perforce is divided into two main parts. Part I offers a whirlwind technical tour, complete with careful descriptions of basic and advanced Perforce commands designed to give you a baseline knowledge. Part II describes the big picture-using Perforce in a collaborative software development. It outlines recommended best practices and quickly shows how to implement them with the Perforce operations introduced in Part I.
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Open Source and Other Dumb Ideas
by Austin Hastings
It was way back when I was in school, walking uphill through the snow-both ways, mind. That's when I first encountered Emacs and the Free Software Foundation. Because I was young and naïve and enthusiastic, I jumped in with both feet. Free software was going to revolutionize the world, and I was going to write most of it! I was naïve, like I said. I think most FOSS (free/open-source software) people get started in school, the same as me. A lot of the ideas come from the young and idealistic.
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