Archive for the ‘Annotate’ Category

See some usages that can help you on your daily tasks: 1. Quickly find out who checked-in a certain code line, when, and on which version: This feature is particularly useful when you have dozens or hundreds of file versions and you can’t readily open the Version Tree for each one and quickly ascertain into exactly which one of the many existing versions your ”target” code […]

We have lots of updates, and we’re getting ready for IBM InterConnect next week, so this time we’ll keep each post quite short. If you will be attending InterConnect and you want to see a live demo of our add-on tools, click here to quickly setup a meeting! IBM InterConnect is around the corner! Preview […]

R&D Reporter (https://www.almtoolbox.com/rnd) is a ClearCase add-on tool that provides development status reports, metrics and charts. We’re often asked what makes our R&D Reporter for ClearCase so special and why it’s better than in-house scripting. Here is a list of the unique value proposition of R&D Reporter (feel free to share with your boss and colleagues): […]

We’re thrilled to reveal some of the exciting features coming soon in R&D Reporter V5.0 for ClearCase. This is just a short list. We’ll provide more details soon (register for our newsletter to receive updates): New report template: two UCM views comparison (click to see a screenshot) New report template: full view \stream report, including […]

In this article, we’ll describe the challenges in using ClearCase to manage legacy code, and how our extensions can help you save time, effort and money while mitigating risks. What exactly is legacy code and what are the inherent challenges? Legacy code is source code created for a system that is no-longer actively supported by […]

We’re very proud to present our latest, most advanced version yet! The software is more legible than ever and provides more powerful data than before. Visual Annotate helps you drill down into the history of any code line in a file. This tool can be very useful for ClearCase end-users: developers, integrators, release managers and […]

GoMidjets is pleased to announce a new “Community Edition” of Visual Annotate, our popular ClearCase add-on. This edition allows you to fully experience our annotating tool and drill down to your code history for FREE. This special Community edition works for 20 minutes every day (i.e. every day at midnight you automatically get 20 minutes […]

Visual Annotate‘s form displays a lot of info in correlation to code lines. Sometimes it’s quite difficult to track (visually) what date, user, version or activity is associated with a certain code line. That’s why we provided the option to use bold and zigzag cursors in the past. The problem with that was that the […]

Over the last months we released two versions. It’s now time to take a benchmark and let you know some interesting facts how it can help you with ClearCase. 1. You can easily hover on the code and discover for each line which version it was checked in; who checked-in that line; when; what activity […]

Over the last months we released two minor versions, 3.1.0 and 3.1.5. It’s now time to take a benchmark and explain what’s new and how it can save you time and energy when you have to identify bugs and drill down into a set of code. What’s new? Integration with Visual Studio (see how to) […]

This is a minor release that supplements version 3.1.0 which we released in December 2013. New: Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio is now packaged in a Visual Annotate installation kit, for your convenience. Integration works for Visual Studio 2013, 2012, 2010 and 2008. To learn more click here. New: Silent installation for ClearCase end-users, to […]

2013 is quickly coming to an end, but GoMidjets is looking forward to many good things in the coming year. Just before the year is ending, we have released a new version of Visual Annotate, our cool annotating tool for developers and engineers using ClearCase, both UCM and Base. This tool saves time and energy […]

Order our solutions by the end of the year and take advantage of a special offer! This offer includes the following solutions: Our health check solution for ClearCase VOB servers (now offered “on demand” too!) Development Intelligence and DevOps Solution for ClearCase ClearQuest users Visual Annotating for developers using ClearCase Please contact sales@almtoolbox.com for further details. Do you […]

We meet with many ClearCase users who struggle with low performance. The problem is not always with ClearCase of course. It can stem from other reasons related to the server, networking, client stations, etc. The trick is to find the bottlenecks and know how to deal with them. This article focuses on the performance experience […]

It’s been a long time since we released our last newsletter… Wait no longer – here is our latest newspaper! This year was very busy and exciting for us. New releases, new customers and new ClearCase and SCM, DevOps and ALM challenges we resolved. I visited customers in Germany, US (4 different states), Canada and […]