Learning Perforce SCM
A comprehensive guide to the world's leading
enterprise conguration management system
Robert Cowham
Neal Ralph Firth
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Learning Perforce SCM
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About the Authors
Robert Cowham is from a software development background with experience in
roles from programming to testing and project management. He came across Perforce
as a user in the early days of the company when there were only four employees. He
subsequently became one of the two pre-qualied Perforce Consulting Partners, and
became a Perforce Certied Trainer as soon as that program was implemented. Since
then he has consulted for many companies and organizations, and trained thousands
of users around the globe, from California to Japan, including giving training courses
in German, French, and Italian.
He has also written a number of integrations with Perforce. This includes P4OFC,
which integrates with Microsoft Ofce, and is still provided as an ofcially-supported
public download. APIs developed by him include P4COM, a COM based API for
use on Windows, and P4Python which he subsequently handed over to Perforce to
support. He has also written various full history migration tools for customers to get
them into Perforce.
He has long had an interest in all aspects of conguration management and was for
several years a coauthor with Brad Appleton and Steve Berczuk of the Agile SCM
column in the online CM Journal. He was Chair of the specialist group for Change,
Conguration and Release Management of the British Computer Society for seven
years, organizing many events and conferences, and is still active on the committee.
He regularly speaks at industry events.
