What's New  CM Crossroads - February 22, 2006
A digest of new resources at www.cmcrossroads.com
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In this Issue
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- New Jobs
- Announcements
- Upcoming Events
- Featured Items
- New Content (Articles/Books/Tools/Whitepapers)
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Build Engineer - Herndon, Virginia, USA
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SAP BASIS Manager - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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MKS Build Configuration Manager - Warren , NJ
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ORACLE RETAIL: Build Engineer - Minneapolis
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- ANNOUNCEMENTS and NEWS
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Chicagoland Rational user group
http://www.
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WANdisco Announces Multi-Site Development
Solution for Subversion
http://www.
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Viewtier Announces Integration of Parabuild
with Serena© ChangeMan©
http://www.
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Borland the first of many IDE vendors to
revision it's market emphasis?
http://www.
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QuickBuild 1.0 - professional build automation
and management server released
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O'Reilly publishes Perforce book
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BMC and IBM forming alliance to meet increasing ITIL
demands
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WINDCHILL 8.0: Data Mgt & Collaboration Solution
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Seapine Software Strengthens ALM Offerings
with Latest in Version Control and Automated Testing
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- UPCOMING EVENTS
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Telelogic's Mid-Atlantic Customer TechConnect Symposium
March 17 2006 - McLean, VA
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Serena Federal and Mid-Atlantic User Group
March 22 2006 - North Bethesda, Maryland
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BCS CMSG Tools Fair
June 15 2006
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Openmake Public Training Course
March 2, 3 2006 - Atlanta
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12 Tasty 'Make' Recipes, Part 1
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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
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Title: easyCMDB
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easyCMDB is a 100% web-based all in one IT Service Support
product that aligns with ITIL principles
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Title: AccuRev Aims High in SCM
URL: http://www.cmcr
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AccuRev says in today's often complex, parallel and
geographically distributed development teams (not least
thanks to an increasing amount of offshore application
development), the ability to dynamically change the
hierarchies, mappings and flows between different team
members and project groups is essential. New project teams
can be added, removed or reassigned during the project, for
instance, without having to redraw the whole project from
scratch.
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Title: AgileBuild
URL: http://www.cmcr
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AgileBuild supports agile development and continuous
integration by making the build and deploy process easy.
You worry about the code, it worries about the build. No
time at all to set up, no complex configuration files to
modify and maintain. It is fully automated, with a real-time
"dashboard" so that you can see - at a glance -
what builds are broken. It integrates your JUnit testing,
and automates reporting (e.g. Clover).
It supports multiple development streams, multiple projects,
many different SCM repositories (CVS, Clearcase, VSS, local)
and multiple make engines (Ant, Nant, make, dmake, gmake or
roll-your-own).
It works straight out of the box, and is available on Win32,
Solaris and Linux.
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Title: Offshore Software Development Outsourcing India
URL: http://www.cmcr
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Brickred is leading Offshore Software Development
Outsourcing
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Title: AceProject
URL: http://www.cmcr
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Offers free web-based project management, bug tracking and
timesheet software
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Title: Bug Tracking Software Issue Tracking Software Defect
Tracking Software
URL: http://www.cmcr
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Crimsonlink is leading Bug Tracking Software Issue Tracking
Software Defect Tracking Software
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Title: Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) - Project Task
Measurement
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1857
This article discusses the Software Development Lifecycle
(SDLC), specifically on measuring the effectiveness of your
project management techniques.
The article focuses on determining how well individual tasks
were estimated, how well they were defined, and whether
items are completed on-time and on-budget. The article also
has links to valuable templates that allow your readership
to get started using these best practice techniques.
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Title: TFTP Server
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1858
SolarWinds TFTP Server has the ability to send and receive
multiple files concurrently. It also has a very handy
security filter and control screen for limiting access this
TFTP Server. The award winning Solarwinds TFTP Server is now
available as a free download. www.tftp.co.uk
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Title: SolarWinds Cirrus Configuration Management
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1859
Cirrus Configuration Management allows you to easily manage
configs on heterogeneous, multi-vendor networks. Cirrus
includes command templates for devices from Cisco, Dell,
Foundry, Juniper, Arris, Motorola, and many others. Cirrus
also allows you to create your own, customized configuration
templates. Download 30 day trial www.solarwinds-cirrus.co.uk
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Title: Collabnet Founder and CTO Brian Behlendorf Named 2006
Young Global Leader
URL: http://www.cmcr
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BRISBANE, Calif., 2006 - CollabNet, the leading provider of
on-demand distributed software development solutions, today
announced that Brian Behlendorf, founder and CTO of
CollabNet, has been named a Young Global Leader. He is one
of only 41 people in North America chosen by the Forum of
Young Global Leaders to join this powerful international
community tasked with making a positive impact on the global
future. In addition to being designated a Young Global
Leader, Behlendorf participated at the 2006 World Economic
Forum Annual Meeting on January 27 in Davos, Switzerland.
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Title: Collabnet Enterprise Edition 4.0 and Subversion Named
Finalists
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1861
BRISBANE, Calif., February, 2006 - CollabNet announced that
its on-demand distributed software development solution,
CollabNet Enterprise Edition 4.0, and the Subversion open
source project the company sponsors, together have been
selected as finalists in a combined six award categories
between Software Development magazines, the Software &
Information Industry Association (SIIA), and developer.com.
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Title: SLEEPYCAT Hardens Subversion Version Control System
with Highly Reliable Database
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1862
EMERYVILLE and BRISBANE, Calif., February, 2006 - Sleepycat
Software, makers of the Berkeley DB family of open source
developer databases, and CollabNet, the leading provider of
on-demand distributed software development solutions and
primary sponsor of the Subversion open source project,
announced that the two companies have collaborated, along
with the Subversion open source community, to optimize the
integration between Berkeley DB and Subversion, ensuring
that data is stored reliably and with full, automatic
recoverability after a system or application failure.
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Title: Wasp Bar Code Technology
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1864
Wasp Bar Code is the industry leader for bar code office
products. Wasp Bar Code provides a professional line of bar
code business products including complete hardware and
software suites, TrueType bar code fonts, powerful labeling
software, premium bar code scanners, and state-of-the-art
developer toolkits. With dozens of bar code products to
choose from, Wasp Bar Code has revolutionized the bar code
industry by making these productivity solutions intuitive
for small business, yet powerful enough to be used by
Fortune 500 companies. More importantly, Wasp Bar Code has
recognized the needs of the consumer, offering these
time-saving tools at a price point that anyone can afford.
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Title: Open Source Strategies
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1865
By Adam Kolawa
Strategies for Building Applications with Open Source
Software
Open source is the current rave in the software industry. It
is making great progress because of Linux—an operating
system that truly works. People are all a-bustle about open
source and are beginning to look for an open source option
appropriate to all their application needs. This brings up
questions: How can you take advantage of open source when
you’re building applications? Are there any dangers involved
in using open source?
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Title: The Unchangeable Rules of Software Change
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1866
Brad Appleton, Robert Cowham 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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Title: Addressing Performance Problems Of Integration Builds
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1867
By Slava Imeshev
High performance of integration builds is one of the keys to
risk-free software development. This article discusses
simple and advanced approaches towards addressing concerns
of performance of integration builds.
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Title: CM: The Next Generation. Will Open-Source Dominate
Development Management?
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1868
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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Title: Affordable Peer Reviews
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1869
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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Title: Open Source or Open Season?
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1870
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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Title: Open Source, and other Dumb Ideas
URL: http://www.cmcr
ossroads.com/link/1871
By Austin Hastings
It was waay 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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