Clear Guidance Consulting

_{(a wholly-owned subsidiary of David Boyce)}

This isn't a polished site, just a bunch of pointers to my Perl and/or ClearCase contributions.

My latest project is called ClearCase for Dummies or CCFD, a UNIX ClearCase shell currently available for Solaris, Linux, Mac OSX, and FreeBSD.

I've recently written a cleartool emulation for Non-ClearCase Access (NCA) environments. This allows people to use the command-line cleartool program on systems not running ClearCase. See NCATOOL for details.

The slides of my September 2001 BMRCCUG (Boston Metro Rational ClearCase User Group) talk on Perl Programming for ClearCase are here as well as HTML. IE is required for this to format right but the original PowerPoint version is available as well. During that talk I mentioned detailed instructions for setting up a Win32 Perl that's tuned for UNIX/Windows interop.

All my freeware Perl modules can be found in my CPAN directory. Please make sure you take the latest versions.

I'm publishing a few of my ClearCase-related scripts in an unsupported fashion. Most have worked in a few different environments so should be fairly portable.

I also have a few ClearCase trigger scripts that I'm making freely available. These are not on CPAN.

Here are my detailed instructions for setting up a Win32 Perl that's tuned for UNIX/Windows interop.

Here's an RCS-like keyword trigger/type manager for ClearCase. It's not mine - it was written by David Kaelbling and Stephen Gildea of the X Consortium many years ago - but David Darby and I subsequently took it over and ported it to Windows, rewrote the trigger in Perl, and made various other improvements before handing it off again. It's available on the IBM website (somewhere) as user-contributed package T0027 but since the IBM site is notoriously difficult to navigate I keep a copy here as well.

My resume is usually out of date...