ProjectLocker Blog: Tag control

Salesforce points Force.com users towards ProjectLocker for their source control needs

Damon Young — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:26:00 -0600

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 .

Do you need a Subversion client?

Damon Young — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:19:00 -0500

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.

Cross Platform

(with either Subclipse or Subversive)

Qct

Qsvn

Linux

NautilusSVN

Windows

SVNCOM

Mac OS

SCPlugin
SvnX

Deploy Rails apps directly to the web from ProjectLocker, with Morph Labs

Damon Young — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:55:00 -0500

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.

Want to see Subversion in action with ProjectLocker? Sign up for our webinar.

Damon Young — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:46:00 -0500

As a follow-up to our presentation at ServoyWorld 2008, "Best Practices for Subversion Hosting", ProjectLocker is now offering an open webinar for anyone who wants to see a more in-depth, hands-on presentation. We'll walk through the use of Subversion in ProjectLocker, as well as necessary best practices, like branching & tagging, with a focus on the Eclipse IDE. The webinar will be Thursday, September 11, 2008 at 11:00AM EST. Register online at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/688137019.

Now get news updates about ProjectLocker on Twitter

Damon Young — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:54:00 -0500

For some time now, you've been able to get commit notifications from your Subversion repository on ProjectLocker sent to you directly through Twitter. But now, you can get also ProjectLocker-related news, updates, and information about our products and services through Twitter as well. Simply follow @ProjectLockerHQ at Twitter, and you'll be constantly kept in the loop.

What's on your mind about Subversion?

Damon Young — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:37:00 -0500

We love feedback.

So much so, we even have an e-mail address soley dedicated to receiving the thoughts of our clients, called, unsurprisingly, feedback@projectlocker.com.

At this moment in particular, we would love to hear from all of our current clients with your thoughts on our hosted Subversion service. What do you love? What do you love less? What would you like to see changed?

Send us an e-mail. Let us know what you think.

Setting up Subversion in moments instead of days

Damon Young — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:45:00 -0500

A recent entry at O'Reilly's OnLamp blog, entitled "Subversion for BSD With All the Bells and Whistles" described the time and effort that an experienced system administrator like Jeff Palmer had to take to install and configure a local instance of Subversion from scratch. In speaking with Jeff, he told me that it took up 2 days to make that first install, although now, he's probably cut the process down to 1.5 to 2 hours. In addition, he spends roughly an hour a week on maintanence.

A time savings, to be sure. But, a developer team could have access to a comparable instance of Subversion literally within moments of signing up from our website.

In addition to near instantaneous provisioning for most clients, ProjectLocker's user interfaces simplify the process of team and user management to such a degree that, for many of our clients, those tasks can be assigned to non-technical managers, freeing your more technical team members to concentrate on your most stubborn technical challenges.

It also doesn't take into account the time & materials required to both implement and maintain a backup & recovery strategy comparable to the one provided by ProjectLocker for all of our services.

Or the time saved on your development efforts by the speed of a ProjectLocker restore should such a disaster occur.

Or the flexibility of downloading backups on demand.

Or the convenience of receiving commit notifications in either Twitter or Jabber.

Or ProjectLocker's proprietary Subversion enhancements, like our Analytics tool.

In short, the time and expense your system administrators can save every day by choosing ProjectLocker is just the tip of our software quality iceberg.

Just something to consider.