Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

How do I review a SCM tool?

A while back, I wrote a review of Guiffy SureMerge for CM Crossroads. I even wrote about the process, here.
I’d like to think that I’m the guy for writing SCM tool reviews. I’ve been a vendor rep, so I know where a whole bunch of the bodies are buried. I am independent, so I don’t [...]

MatchPoint – a first pass at deployment management?

I was browsing some Spanish-language software development blogs, and came across a reference to MatchPoint, a mainframe-oriented product from a Swiss company called CM First AG.
These guys don’t seem to have any more idea than most about how to manage database changes, but their product (or at least, the pdf of the glossy brochure) [...]