ChatGPT 4 was just released this past March, yet in just a few months, it has already started to shift the landscape of how we develop materials and assets across industries. As CTO at Perforce Software, I am deeply interested in how new and emerging technologies shape and redefine well-established workflows and processes. In my nearly 30 years of software development experience, few technological advancements have been as exciting and as far-reaching as generative AI.

Nearly every developer uses Git at some point. It is taught at most universities and widely available for anyone to use. This makes hosting solutions like GitHub a natural choice for many users, especially students, small teams, and anyone working with open source software. With so many people turning to GitHub to manage their projects, it raises an important question: Is GitHub safe?

There is a lot of 3D animation software on the market today — so much that it can be difficult to determine which is right for your or your team’s purposes. In this blog, get an overview of some of the animation tools that are considered industry standard. Plus, learn about the differences and overlap between digital content creation tools, game engines, and collaboration tools that are used in 3D animation.

Imagine being able to make a digital replica of one of the largest stadiums in the world, capturing everything from ceiling height to square footage. Now, imagine you could integrate that replica with real-life, predictive data. Then, you could use it to measure important details like stadium capacity, climate control, security wait times, video and audio syncing capabilities, and more. In this example, digital twin software enables events to run more smoothly and helps staff foresee and plan upgrades.

Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) help improve the safety of everyone in the car to help them arrive safely at their destination. These technological features are essential as the majority of serious car accidents are due to human error. Here we discuss what are advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), provide examples of advanced driver assistance systems, and what coding standards are essential to the development of advanced driver assistance systems.

DevOps can be broken down into a lifecycle. Here, we provide an overview of the seven phases of the DevOps lifecycle.

At Perforce, we have a long history of supporting applications that need to be stable and secure. With over 50 years of application development experience, we have learned many things from our customers, trends, and our competitors. We have taken best practices from all areas of software development and attempted to apply those to everything we do. We adopted unit testing, automated testing, agile development, code reviews, continuous integration, and much more.

ISO 9001 gives specific requirements and criteria for an organization's quality management system (QMS). It is a broad, international standard that is used by any type of organization of any size. The most recent version of ISO 9001 was released in 2015 and aims to help companies improve customer experience, meet regulatory requirements, manage supplier and partner relationships, and achieve continual company success.

There are a lot of moving parts in a virtual production pipeline that Perforce Helix Core can help you automate. In this blog, we cover how to use the Helix Core (Perforce) APIs (including the Perforce Python API) to automate some of the manual processes in yourvirtual production pipeline.

Static analysis helps development teams that are under pressure. Quality releases needed to be delivered on time. Coding and compliance standards need to be met. And mistakes are not an option. That’s why development teams are using static analysis tools / source code analysis tools. Here, we discuss static analysis and the benefits of using static analysis tools.