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Remove even more competition... by staplin · 2002-12-12 03:22 · Score: 5, Informative · on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland?

Plus, Borland just bought StarBase, which produces the StarTeam SCM system, as seen in this press release. (Wow, just look at the way the Borland logo is plastered all over the StarBase website!)

So with Rational and Borland, they knock out 2 competitors in the SCM market!

Remove even more competition... by staplin · 2002-12-12 03:22 · Score: 5, Informative · on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland?

Plus, Borland just bought StarBase, which produces the StarTeam SCM system, as seen in this press release. (Wow, just look at the way the Borland logo is plastered all over the StarBase website!)

So with Rational and Borland, they knock out 2 competitors in the SCM market!

Remove even more competition... by staplin · 2002-12-12 03:22 · Score: 5, Informative · on Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland?

Plus, Borland just bought StarBase, which produces the StarTeam SCM system, as seen in this press release. (Wow, just look at the way the Borland logo is plastered all over the StarBase website!)

So with Rational and Borland, they knock out 2 competitors in the SCM market!

Yes Indeed by PatientZero · 2002-07-17 12:39 · Score: 2 · on Next Generation Regexp

Regular expressions is one of those tools that I end up teaching to anyone that doesn't know them whenever I start a new job. I don't use them in much of my applications, but I use them to write my applications and build tools. I follow the philosophy of building tools to solve problems knowing I'll need to solve the same problem again and again.

Another tool is shell scripting. At a past company Symantec Cafe was used for developing a Java application. When I joined, I immediately created shell scripts for myself to do automated builds for a couple reasons:

Cafe's editor, while nice, was not up to par for me -- it slowed me down too much.
I multitask a lot when I'm working, and having multiple shells open at once doing builds et al is handy.
The editor I use on Windows, CodeWright, lets you call batch files (and thus shell scripts through Cygwin) for CVS and compilation.
Cafe didn't (and still doesn't?) do automated builds, nor does it run on Linux.

I showed others how to use them, but only one other developer took the time to get used to it, never having used a shell before. The others complained that they shouldn't have to learn a new tool (shells and scripts) when Cafe sufficed. I explained the advantages, but to no avail.

Well, a few months later we finally hired a real QA and release engineer. Since we were building a J2EE application to run on Linux in testing and Solaris in deployment, we needed automated builds on Unix. There was a huge rush to get everyone up to speed on the new build system using shell scripts.

Hmm, that was a bit long-winded just to make the point that there are many useful tools to developers that don't involve the actual code they write. I've used regexps to create SQL data files and config files as mentioned. You'll learn many things, so keep open and don't stop learning. :)

Try StarTeam by Anonymous Coward · 2002-07-16 08:51 · Score: 0 · on Designing a New Version Control System?

This is also available in StarTeam. The Enterprise edition provides the following:

File versioning
Change requests/bug tracking
Task delegation and tracking (for distributed development teams)
Topics (kind of like a Usenet newsgroup, complete with threads of discussion
The ability to link revisions of files/change requests/tasks/topics to others (we're talking any revision in any category linked to any revision in any category)
Labels, for tracking file revisions, etc. in particular builds
Floating promotion states (indicating which label is currently the development version, this one is in testing, this one is released, etc.)
Views, which can provide subsets of projects (does every developer need to see the ENTIRE source code base?)
Sharing between projects (very nice for taking a base project and spawning customized versions)

The newer versions (5.1+) also provide integration with a Requirements Management tool (kind of like Rational Requisite Pro).

It isn't cheap, but man, it's ALL there. There are GUI AND command line clients, for Windows and for Java, plus a complete Java API for scripting tasks and reports.

Re:pretty gui's by scott1853 · 2002-07-16 00:25 · Score: 2 · on Designing a New Version Control System?

You mean like Starteam. It looks like a nice package, now if only it could given an accurate status on a file instead of "unknown". It would also be nice if the merge option didn't mangle the code. "1.04" merged with "1.01" somehow works out to be ".1".

I must admit it's better than SourceSafe from MS.