Who or What is Peregrine?

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Who or What is Peregrine?

• David Wentland
• Software Development Manager
• Peregrine Systems, Inc.

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A Peregrine is a type of Falcon
Falco peregrinus, a bird of prey
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Peregrine is also a software company

• Peregrine Highlights
• Boasts a rare 20 year history
• Valued at 2.7 billion dollars
• Reported 17 straight quarters of meeting
  revenue/earnings
• Achieved over 75 percent growth in last two
  years
• Claims 92 percent of Fortune 500 companies as
  customers
• Created the infrastructure management solutions
  market
• On track as B2B powerhouse with collaborative
  e-Commerce
• A pioneer in Employee Relationship Management
• www.peregrine.com

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Version Control Front End

• Les Ramer
• Sr. Software Engineer
• Peregrine Systems, Inc.

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What is Version Control?

1. A tool for managing source code
2. A tool you will use constantly throughout your
   careers as software engineers
3. A sometimes gangly piece of software that
   everyone implements differently
4. A pain in the behind
5. All of the above

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Diversity

• Different systems over my career
• MS Source Safe, PVCS, CMVC, Perforce
• Others
• CVS, Clear Case, etc

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Help is on the way

• With the aid of insert your team name here
  developers will have a consistent and extensible
  front end that will work across all version
  control systems

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What Success Means

• Easy to use cross platform GUI (in Java?) using
  trees and an explorer-like view with context
  menus
• Cross platform data format (XML?)
• Interfaces nicely across at least two version
  control systems
• That you have fun developing a product

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How can you do this?

• Making command line calls
• Formatting your input to the command line
• Parsing command outputs
• Sleuthing out industry standard interfaces that
  may exist

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Questions?

• Contact information
• Les Ramer ( Leslie.Ramer_at_Peregrine.com )