Software Configuration Management Blog

Aug 19, Software Builds

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:55:27 GMT

Have you heard about the Lindbergh baby? It never ceases to amaze all the good press automated software builds get by SCM experts. Maybe I was fortunate to start my career for the right software development organization, but I would never consider working for an organization that did not value the benefits of SCM and software build best practices. I came across another front page article on CMCrossroads about how an SCM expert came to appreciate the value of commercial build and deployment tools. My contention is that you can not consider yourself an SCM expert if you are or were not following SCM best practices. Especially, using manual build processes. I realize that the author was probably writing this article for CMCrossroads to promote their sponsors, but none the less. Have you ever heard of sliced bread....alert the media!

Jul 17, Automated Build Process

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:11:26 GMT

Automated Build Process - Automating your software build process is a fundamental step in maturing your software development process. The only way to accurately predict build results.

Jul 4, Circumventing Build Process

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 21:13:15 GMT

Circumventing Build Process happens for many reasons. For example, it can happen because someone decides schedule is more important than software quality. Another example, might be that the person m

May 30, Subversion 1.5 Rumor

Fri, 30 May 2008 21:26:28 GMT

The rumor on the street is the release candidate is going to hit the street this week. Could this release have taken any longer? Probably not. Seems like we have been waiting a year for this release.

May 19, Eclipse plugins for Maven 2.0

Mon, 19 May 2008 22:30:34 GMT

M2Eclipse and Q for Eclipse allow the running of Maven goals from Eclipse. The output is viewable from inside the IDE. M2Eclipse Features

Running Maven Builds from the IDE

Build Depedency Management from Maven

Resolving Maven dependencies from the Eclipse workspace

May 5, CM Audit

Mon, 05 May 2008 03:48:02 GMT

This page is a CM Audit performed by an internal audit team.

Apr 30, CruiseControl

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:49:35 GMT

CruiseControl is an open source tool for continuous software builds. This page is dedicated to supporting a specific CruiseControl implementation.

Apr 30, Maven

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 21:10:28 GMT

This page is dedicated to the discovery, setup and support of Maven. Maven is a tool that can now be used for building and managing any Java-based project.

Apr 27, SCM Jobs

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:14:46 GMT

SCM Jobs can be challenging, rewarding and financially lucrative.

Apr 27, SCM Interview Questions

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 18:37:26 GMT

This page is a collection of SCM questions that would illuminate a candidates potential to properly perform the required SCM duties. Often times, the person interviewing the SCM candidate does not kn

Apr 27, Software Configuration Management

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 02:29:23 GMT

SCMWISE.COM is dedicated to Software Configuration Management. This site is a central repository for the collection of best practices, processes, methodologies and tools that surround SCM.

Apr 10, Disaster Recovery

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:00:30 GMT

The purpose of this page is to establish a standard for disaster recovery for systems, applications and their configurations.

Apr 9, SCM Plan

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:25:25 GMT

This SCM Plan is a model for software applications that require a disaster recovery ability.

Apr 7, SCM Salaries

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:11:25 GMT

This page is a survey of SCM salaries of different SCM roles.

Mar 30, SharpSvn has been moved to openCollabent

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 06:23:29 GMT

SharpSvn is an integration of the Subversion Client API and .Net 2.0 applications contained within a set of xcopy-deployable dll's.

Mar 27, Source Code Migration

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:16:37 GMT

This page discusses the factors that go into a successful source code migration.

Mar 25, Configuration Management Plan

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:37:16 GMT

This is a sample Configuration Management Plan.

Mar 9, Developer.com awards Subversion Open Source Product of the Year - 2008

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:05:15 GMT

Open Source Tool The finalists were: Apache Wicket Java SE 6 JBoss Application Server NetBeans IDE Subversion The winner is Subversion. Comments from a few of the nominators were: Ease of use, the ability to support distributed teams without any administration headaches, and enterprise-class scalability have made Subversion the preferred solution for many distributed projects. Works remotely and can integrate with ActiveDirectory security Stability, Flexibility, Multiplatform support, great user base support/Community Suport, feature Rich, and has a great front end. Security feature is amazing. Just introduced advance merge tracking is simply awesome. Can be used to version all data, not just source code Subversion can be used by the strong and skilled professionals as well as by complete beginners.

Mar 9, Feature Driven Development

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:40:01 GMT

Feature Driven Development, FDD, is a short-iteration development process. It consists of five basic activities: Develop an Overall Model, Build a Feature List, Plan by Feature, Design by Feature, Bu

Feb 24, Bob Aiello interviews Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:44:13 GMT

Bob Aiello interview Mike Maciag, CEO of Electric Cloud to discuss their new VMWare Lab Manager virtual build and test automation functionality.

Feb 19, Never leave your Eclipse IDE

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:29:18 GMT

CollabNet has traditionally provided an array of web-based tools that support users working in a distributed development environment. Conversations with developers and software project managers showed that the best way to enhance their productivity with our tools was to integrate them better with IDEs. While we are considering several other IDEs for integration, we started with Eclipse. The result is CollabNet Desktop - Eclipse Edition.

Feb 19, Social Gaming Network Launches SGN Gaming Hub

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 23:29:18 GMT

San Francisco - The Social Gaming Network, SGN, the world's largest social gaming network, has announced the launch of its social gaming hub. The revolutionary new platform, SGN Gaming Hub, will offer developers who qualify free installs for all their games through opening its advanced Application Programming Interfaces(API).

Feb 6, What will 2008 bring to SCM

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:25:23 GMT

ALM, Application Lifecycle Management, tools will continue down their current path with increases in functionality. Build tools will continue to be dominated by Ant and Nant with a little Maven. SCM tools will continue to market to the ITIL and SOX audiences. In other words, 2008 will be very much like 2007. Boring. Looking forward to being wrong!

Nov 30, Subversion 1.5 Release

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:26:38 GMT

CollabNet and CMCrossRoads are presenting Subversion 1.5 webinar to discuss the upcoming rlease. Collabnet engineers Daniel Rall and C. Michael Pilato will discuss merge tracking, interactive conflict resolution, changelists and many other new features. To register click here http://www.collab.net/webinar26/

Nov 9, SCMWise EZine

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:19:50 GMT

SCMWise EZine distributes news and information that closely relates and impacts Software Configuration Management on a day-to-day basis.

Oct 25, Contact Us

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 02:53:10 GMT

This is the SCMWise.com Contact Page

Oct 18, ITIL V3

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:00:55 GMT

HP and Internet.com produced and sponsored a webinar about ITIL v3. Although, this webinar was a sales pitch for HP's ITIL software, the webinar was very informative.

Oct 18, ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:36:42 GMT

ITIL, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is a set of best practices that support the delivery of Information Technology[IT] services.