Archive for category PERL
Is Perl an essential skill of SCMers
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, Glue Software, PERL, Plain Old Blog, Tools 'n' Tips on September 21, 2010
Is being able to use Perl an essential skill for people working at the technical coal face of software configuration management? The obvious, and probably correct, answer is ‘probably not essential‘ but if you work in software configuration management it is well worth considering. Perl is fairly ubiquitous, there are few platforms that do not [...]
Common Interface
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, PERL, SCM Tool on January 31, 2010
After much deliberation and soul searching I’ve finally decided it’s time to address one of my all time bugbears. I am going to develop a set of transferable libraries for analysing and operating a CMS. And because I am most familiar with Perl (and, as explained in my earlier post Glue Software, I find it [...]
Glue Software
Posted by Mark in CMCrossroads, Glue Software, PERL, Plain Old Blog, Tools 'n' Tips on January 25, 2010
As someone who inevitably becomes involved in the technical implementation of configuration management systems (CMS) I am often called upon to create what I choose to call ‘glue software’. Glue software is not a full integration between two products (often there is simply no way to fully integrate products) but rather it is a more [...]
