ProjectLocker Blog: Tag development

Calling All Software Companies

C. G. Brown — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:21:00 -0500

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!

ProjectLocker proudly sponsors Startup Weekend LA 2

Damon Young — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:00:00 -0600

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.

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 .

Sharpen your Scrum skills with training classes from our partners at 3Back

Damon Young — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:48:00 -0500

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.

ProjectLocker and 3Back are pleased to bring your these training events.

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.

ProjectLocker talks Subversion next week at ServoyWorld

Damon Young — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:33:00 -0500

Here at ProjectLocker, we believe in two things when it comes to delivering software: quality and speed. As a provider, we're always looking for ways to help software developers bring the richest, strongest, most reliable software applications to market in unprecedented timeframes. Most of those efforts come through the services and tools that we offer directly, such as our recent rollout of Automated Code Reviews. But we're also always on the lookout for partners, vendors, and other tools that meet that same criteria.

Which is why we're big fans of Servoy. Servoy is a Java-based development environment that allows you to create rich business applications that can be deployed both to multiple desktop platforms as well as over the internet with a single code base. I've witnessed a demo where a Servoy developer created a single form that drew data from both a Sybase database and a MySQL database at the same time without writing a single line of code in minutes. They say a demo team built this sample bug tracking application from scratch in 46 hours.

It's strong and fast, and now that they've converted their latest release, version 4.0, into an Eclipse plugin, their team sharing features are all provided through Subversion.

Given Servoy's new reliance on Subversion, ProjectLocker is very proud to participate in ServoyWorld2008, their international user conference, next week at the JW Marriott Resort in Las Vegas. I'll be giving a presentation there entitled "Best Practices for Hosted Subversion" on Thursday, September 4th, as a general introduction to some of the ways that Subversion in general and hosted Subversion in particular can improve your quality of life as a developer. If you're attending the conference, please feel free to stop by. The slides and a YouTube version of my presentation will become available both here and on Servoy's homepage soon after the conference.

ProjectLocker meets Facebook

Damon Young — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:59:00 -0500

For all of the developers out there with designs for the next hottest Facebook app, we'd like to get to know you a bit better. ProjectLocker is testing the waters there with a new company page on Facebook. Regardless of what kind of apps you're building, we're sure you'll find ProjectLocker's hosted suite of low-cost, enterprise-caliber development tools, like hosted Subversion & Trac starting at $2.50 per month, and our brand new Automated Code Review tool for Java developeres, will help you save time, save money, and build better software.

Join us on Facebook at this link. You'll be hearing a lot more from us there soon enough.

ProjectLocker joins the Agile Alliance

Damon Young — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:25:00 -0500

It's no secret: we like Agile Software Development here at ProjectLocker.

We're not dogmatic about any one particular methodology over another. As a company, we've always focused on supporting the most efficient ways software developers can save time, save money, and build better software. But if you look at the Agile Manifesto, I think you'll see some things that we might agree with:

"Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

Working software over comprehensive documentation

Customer collaboration over contract negotiation

Responding to change over following a plan"

With that in mind, especially given that supporting Agile teams is the raison d'être for ProjectLocker Lite as well as our long-standing partnership with the Agile & Scrum experts at 3Back, we felt it was time to make it official:

ProjectLocker is now a corporate member of the Agile Alliance.

For all of our current users who are Agile practicioners: I'd encourage you to take a moment and see what resources the alliance can offer to enhance your current project.

And if you're an Agile practicioner or Alliance member who's not using ProjectLocker yet, I think you'll like what you see.