Posted by C. G. Brown
Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:10:00 GMT
Attention all Lighthouse fans: we at ProjectLocker have released an integration between Subversion and Lighthouse. Much credit goes to James Cox and the Lighthouse gang for writing a sample beacon that we used as the basis for ours, described here. Like the sample beacon, you can both submit changesets and act on tickets through your commit log messages. Existing customers can check the Support FAQ for details on how to set it up. The integration is also available for all accounts, so if you've been looking for free Subversion hosting with Lighthouse integration, you've found it.
We of course are fans of Trac at ProjectLocker, but recognize that no two teams work exactly the same way, and there are a lot of ways to track issues and manage projects. That's why we will continue to support your software team working in the way that is best for them, and continue to work with great partners like Lighthouse, Basecamp, FogBugz, and others to allow our customers to use our products and theirs together. We're excited about continuing to grow our ecosystem and hope that you find our integration points useful.
Posted by C. G. Brown
Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:21:00 GMT
Got a great software developer tool or product? We want to hear about it. We're currently looking to tell our customers about products that will be of value to them and make their lives easier, and are looking for vendors who are doing great things with software development and software quality to get in touch with us. We can be reached at sales [at] projectlocker.com for more information.
Whether you're a training company looking to offer educational services, a component vendor with libraries or controls that speed development, or a product vendor with an innovative IDE, build, or test tool, we're looking forward to hearing from you. That also goes for our current customers who are using ProjectLocker to help them build tools like these. Don't be shy. . . let's hear your story!
Posted by C. G. Brown
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:31:00 GMT
For those of you who use Rally Software's solutions, we've done a pass over the Subversion integration with Rally to make it easier to set up and add support for multiple Rally workspaces. If your Rally account has access to the API, you can use our integration seamlessly by putting your Rally user name and password into your user profile, and having your account administrator set the appropriate URL for access to the API. Once this is set up, commit messages that reference artifacts are linked to the artifacts and can even act on them in some cases (for example, closing a ticket). If you have any questions, more detailed instructions are available in the support FAQ in ProjectLocker Portal.
We welcome any additional input you have as users as to what integration points you would like to see between ProjectLocker and Rally, or other tools in general. We want to help you write great software the way that works best for your team.
Posted by Runako Godfrey
Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:04:00 GMT
As a thanks to our users, we have increased the quotas on the Equity plan. The new, improved Equity plan gets you 30 users and 30 GB of storage for $30/month. Like all ProjectLocker plans, you get unlimited projects, unlimited repositories, unlimited Tracs, and you can choose Subversion hosting or Git hosting for each project.
Posted by Runako Godfrey
Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:28:00 GMT
Today I'm happy to announce something that we've been working on for a while, and that we not-so-officially launched a little while ago. That is, the introduction of our Free plan for Subversion hosting, Git hosting, and Trac hosting. Here are the details:
100% Free
Unlimited Projects
300 MB Storage
Choose Subversion Hosting or Git Hosting (or mix and match!)
Trac hosting included for each project
Up to 2 users
If you are an existing ProjectLocker customer, and you would like to switch to the Free plan, please file a support ticket in ProjectLocker Portal and we'll handle the accounting and conversion.
We're very excited to make this available for small teams, and look forward to your feedback.
Posted by Runako Godfrey
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:56:00 GMT
Due to popular demand, ProjectLocker now has Git hosting as well as Subversion hosting. From now on, any time you create a new project, you will have the option of making its repository either Git or Subversion. Either way, your repository will automatically hook into your Trac and your notifications (email, Twitter, Basecamp, etc.).
Posted by Damon Young
Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:00:00 GMT
For the second time, Los Angeles will play host to Startup Weekend, courtesy of our friends at Scrum Club. Starting on a Friday night, software developers, designers, marketers & entrepreneurs gather together, pitch completely new product or company ideas, and then apply Agile & Scrum development practices to try to deliver on those pitches before the end of the weekend. As an original sponsor of Scrum Club, ProjectLocker is happy to donate its hosted software development services to all of the teams involved.
As of Saturday night, there are over 40 participants still engaged in active development on 7 separate applications. You can get up-to-date information from various people on the scene at the offices of BlankSpaces by following #swla on Twitter.
In the meantime, you can learn more about Startup Weekend in general and Scrum Club in particular by clicking on the logos here. We'll report back with the results of the weekend on Monday.
Posted by C. G. Brown
Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:38:00 GMT
If you've logged in to My ProjectLocker or ProjectLocker Portal lately, you've probably noticed our new login screen that only uses e-mail address and password. We changed the login screen from three fields to two because we wanted to make it easier for customers to access their information — everyone remembers their e-mail address but not everyone remembers the account name and login name they used to set up their account.
You may also notice that the New User screen no longer has a login field. For the same reason, we're also moving toward making e-mail address function as a login ID. Existing accounts will not be affected, but new users that get created will be set up in this fashion. This is part of a series of changes that we are planning to improve the ability of ProjectLocker users to collaborate on private projects.
We welcome customer feedback on this decision; as always your guidance tells us what works and what doesn't work for you.
Posted by Damon Young
Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:09:00 GMT
A bit of a public service announcement from our friends and partners at Scrum Club, an organization based in Los Angeles dedicated to providing training and actual hands-on experience in Scrum and Agile best practices.
Posted by Damon Young
Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:26:00 GMT
If you have a chance to read the testimonials for ProjectLocker on the Case Studies page of our website, you'll see that one of the more ringing endorsements for our services comes from a manager with Salesforce.com's professional services team. It seems that our hosted Subversion services was integral to the success of this team of consultants.
But now that Salesforce has started to reach beyond CRM into the world of application development with Force.com, they've given an even better recommendation for our services on their official blog. See the details of how you can integrate Subversion with your Force.com development environment at http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2008/12/put-your-forcecom-app-under-version-control.html .
