Who we are
We are the developers of
Plastic SCM, a full version control stack (not a Git variant). We work on the strongest branching and merging you can
find, and a core that doesn't cringe with huge binaries and repos. We also develop the GUIs, mergetools and everything needed to give you the full version control stack.
If you want to give it a try, download it from
here.
We also code
SemanticMerge, and the
gmaster Git client.
Using PeerFinder from Console: Wi-Fi Direct data transfer in C#
There are situations where you don't have a wifi or LAN available but you would like to exchange some files. Then you find yourself copying to a usb stick and giving it to your colleague. You are probably sitting together on the lobby of a hotel, a train, a plane, it doesn't matter, but connecting to the internet or a local network is not an option.
Wi-Fi Direct is a standard to connect with each other without a wireless access point. So, if your two laptops are close enough, you should be able to take advantage of your wifi antennas to transfer data faster than using the usb.
.NET has a bunch of classes to help implementing this. Unfortunately, (IMO) they are all designed to be used from UWP or Windows Store apps, and it is sort of a nightmare to use them from a simple Console application (or a Windows service, which could greatly benefit from this functionality). I'm going to explain how to use the old PeerFinder (available since Windows 8.1) to transfer data using Wi-Fi Direct from a simple C# Console program. Full source code available on GitHub.
Pablo Santos
I'm the CTO and Founder at Códice.
I've been leading Plastic SCM since 2005. My passion is helping teams work better through version control.
I had the opportunity to see teams from many different industries at work while I helped them improving their version control practices.
I really enjoy teaching (I've been a University professor for 6+ years) and sharing my experience in talks and articles.
And I love simple code.
You can reach me at
@psluaces.
Who we are
We are the developers of
Plastic SCM, a full version control stack (not a Git variant). We work on the strongest branching and merging you can
find, and a core that doesn't cringe with huge binaries and repos. We also develop the GUIs, mergetools and everything needed to give you the full version control stack.
If you want to give it a try, download it from
here.
We also code
SemanticMerge, and the
gmaster Git client.
Visual improvements - OS X GUI
We have just released BL775 and it includes a number of visual improvements native Plastic SCM GUI for OS X. They are small touches that help creating a more polished tool, something that is a priority for us since OS X is definitely one of our more important platforms.
The following screenshots shows the new syntax highlight in diff plus the line numbers. It also shows the improved selection in lists, with the white text on blue background.
Pablo Santos
I'm the CTO and Founder at Códice.
I've been leading Plastic SCM since 2005. My passion is helping teams work better through version control.
I had the opportunity to see teams from many different industries at work while I helped them improving their version control practices.
I really enjoy teaching (I've been a University professor for 6+ years) and sharing my experience in talks and articles.
And I love simple code.
You can reach me at
@psluaces.
Who we are
We are the developers of
Plastic SCM, a full version control stack (not a Git variant). We work on the strongest branching and merging you can
find, and a core that doesn't cringe with huge binaries and repos. We also develop the GUIs, mergetools and everything needed to give you the full version control stack.
If you want to give it a try, download it from
here.
We also code
SemanticMerge, and the
gmaster Git client.
Plastic repo spelunking with PowerBI
Code repositories can give you lots of useful information about how you work with your code. This post will explain how to extract part of this information and how to visualize it using powerful tools such as Power BI.
Prerequisites
Getting the information
The Plastic SCM command line tool allows you to export all the information you need from the commits. Unlike Git, Plastic SCM allows you to export logs in XML format so you can parse from Power BI without having to develop a parser.
Who we are
We are the developers of
Plastic SCM, a full version control stack (not a Git variant). We work on the strongest branching and merging you can
find, and a core that doesn't cringe with huge binaries and repos. We also develop the GUIs, mergetools and everything needed to give you the full version control stack.
If you want to give it a try, download it from
here.
We also code
SemanticMerge, and the
gmaster Git client.
Geoloc: a trigger to track the coordinates of each checkin
While the office is not far, I code from home very often. So I want to keep track of the location of each checkin to extract some statistics later on, and figure out how much code I check in from each place. In fact, I have checked in some interesting code from planes too, and I added the info on the comments, which is fan to read later on.
So, I have been using a small trigger for about a week now, tracking the exact location of each of my checkins and adding the info as attributes to the changesets in Plastic.
The trigger code is available on GitHub and you are free to modify it and tune it for your own purposes. Each time I checkin I get a notification like this one on your desktop (Windows only so far):
Pablo Santos
I'm the CTO and Founder at Códice.
I've been leading Plastic SCM since 2005. My passion is helping teams work better through version control.
I had the opportunity to see teams from many different industries at work while I helped them improving their version control practices.
I really enjoy teaching (I've been a University professor for 6+ years) and sharing my experience in talks and articles.
And I love simple code.
You can reach me at
@psluaces.
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