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 .
Posted by Runako Godfrey
Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:21:00 GMT
One of the more common questions we get at ProjectLocker is whether Mylyn works with ProjectLocker. For those that haven't worked with Mylyn, it's basically a plugin for Eclipse that brings all of your development tasks into your IDE, and lets you manage your Trac issues when you're offline.
Good news: ProjectLocker works with Mylyn without any special configuration. We've put together a short screencast to show how to get started. If you're new to using Mylyn, that page also has some links to help you get a better understanding of how Mylyn can increase your productivity.
Posted by Damon Young
Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:48:00 GMT
3Back, LLC is one of our earliest partners as well as one of the most respected & sought-after firms for formal training in all aspects of Agile and Scrum development. If your team needs to build your Scrum competency from the ground up, find one of their classes nearest you on the widget below.
Posted by C. G. Brown
Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:01:00 GMT
Due to heavy customer demand, we've worked hard to release our newest feature: Remote Deployment. With Remote Deployment, you can deploy code directly from your SVN repository at ProjectLocker to your servers without writing scripts on your machine. You can configure multiple environments to represent your development, QA, or production deployment needs. We support transport of your data via FTP, SFTP, and SCP, and we even allow you to run SSH commands on your server after the deploy is complete! We even provide a public key that you can install to your deployment user's account to allow secure deployment without passwords. To try it out, just go to your Project page in ProjectLocker Portal and click on Remote Deploy Settings. The tool is in Beta at this time, so if you have any issues, please open a ticket or contact us via e-mail, and we'll be happy to assist.
We hope our customers find this feature useful in managing their development. Being able to deploy to multiple environments on-demand means that you can do release management more easily and on a schedule that suits you, without lots of scripting and additional hardware. If you're not yet a ProjectLocker customer, compare our prices and features to any of our competitors and you'll find we're not only the lowest-priced solution, but also the best value. We're excited to continue to find new ways to bring our customers Software Quality on Demand.
Posted by Runako Godfrey
Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:04:00 GMT
As promised, ProjectLocker's Subversion hosting was upgraded to Subversion 1.5.2 on Saturday. Any new projects you create going forward will automatically use the Subversion 1.5 repository format, and will let you immediately take advantage of features and improvements new to Subversion 1.5.
If you want to use any of the 1.5 features that require a 1.5 repository on an existing project, you will need to upgrade your repository to the 1.5 format. To do so, please open a support ticket or send an email to support@projectlocker.com with your account name and the name of the project(s) you'd like upgraded. We'll then upgrade the repositories on our end and let you know when you can enjoy all the new 1.5 goodness (See the release notes for details on which features require a 1.5 repository).
Again, please note that you do not have to upgrade your client unless you specifcally want to take advantage of 1.5 features.
Posted by Damon Young
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:19:00 GMT
Whether you're running Subversion yourself on your local servers or taking advantage of one of ProjectLocker's hosted Subversion subscriptions, you'll still need a suitable Subversion client to run on your workstation. Since ProjectLocker will work with virtually any Subversion client, we're tool-agnostic. But, we realize it's probably helpful for both our new customers and veteran clients to see what's currently available. Below, you'll find a list of some of the most popular open source Subversion clients on the web, arranged by supported operating systems. This list is by no means comprehensive. In fact, if you're using an SVN client that you love, and we haven't included it here, definitely let us know and we'll add it to the list.
Posted by Damon Young
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:55:00 GMT
As our recent launch of automated code reviews illustrates, ProjectLocker is constantly looking for new and better ways to help development teams create the strongest, highest-quality applications in the shortest time frames possible. But, as every software developer knows, building your application is only half the battle.
Which is why, as our first foray into the world of software release and delivery, we're happy to announce our partnership with our new friends at Morph Labs.
Morph is a leader in the brave new world of "Platform As A Service" - their unique infrastructure allows their users to instantly provision instances of their web applications that are immediately available over the internet with built-in scalability, all while minimizing the maintanance and support efforts required of their users.
Now, if you're a ProjectLocker client and you sign up for Morph, you can configure your user portal so that selected projects can be instantly deployed from your Subversion repository to Morph, literally at the push of a button. At the moment, this feature is only available for Ruby on Rails applications, but we plan to offer the same service for our Java clients later this year.
By eliminating huge portions of your development overhead with ProjectLocker AND an even larger portion of your release and deployment overhead with Morph, our Rails clients can now experience a dramatic jump in their time to market.
You can learn more about this new partnership from the press release here. If you're a current Morph client and would like to take advantage of ProjectLocker's great deals on Subversion hosting, as well as any of our other productivity tools, contact sales (at) projectlocker.com. If you're a ProjectLocker customer and would like to deploy directly to Morph, you can sign up for their service by clicking this link.
