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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.

New ProjectLocker Lite Plan - Equity

C. G. Brown — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:50:00 -0500

A number of ProjectLocker Lite customers have asked for a larger plan to accomodate their larger teams. Now, the Equity plan is here, with 25 users and up to 30 GB of storage for just $30/month. Like all ProjectLocker plans, you can create unlimited projects and repositories within the storage limits. New customers can sign up for the plan at the ProjectLocker web site, and existing customers can click on the Upgrade Account link in ProjectLocker Portal to have their account converted to Equity.

Equity is just another step towards our goal of having the highest quality Subversion hosting and Trac hosting at the lowest prices in the industry. Compare us to our competition, then try us today. And to the thousands who have already decided that ProjectLocker is right for them, thank you for choosing ProjectLocker.

Now ProjectLocker is raffling off TWO iPhones

Damon Young — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:45:00 -0500

Midnight tonight, August 31st, is the cut off for the iPhone Referral Raffle we started at the beginning of this summer. As we mentioned before, whomever has the most referrals by tonight will win a new iPhone, courtesy of ProjectLocker. But, because we've gotten such a great response and to sweeten the pot a bit more, we're also going to give away a SECOND 16 GB iPhone 3G to one other customer reference in a random drawing after tonight.

So, even if you haven't made the most referrals, you can still refer your software startup friends to ProjectLocker. If they order any of our services before midnight tonight, Pacific Standard Time, and enter your e-mail in the Referral Source field, you'll be in the running. So don't wait - the clock is ticking.....

All Servoy 4.0 users get the 1st month of Subversion hosting FREE with ProjectLocker

Damon Young — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:22:00 -0500

Since the latest version of Servoy is now based on Eclipse, Servoy users can now tap into the power and versatility of Subversion for their version control and team sharing needs. Of course, now these Servoy users must answer the eternal question:

"Should we install, run, and maintain Subversion ourselves, or should we choose a hosted solution?"

Not surprisingly, we here at ProjectLocker made a pretty compelling case for hosting back in 2005 with our whitepaper, "The Rapid Project Platform". But, in case anyone still needed further persuasion, we've decided to add a tiny incentive.

Therefore, in our last bit of Servoy-related news for the day, ProjectLocker is extending a special discount to everyone using the brand new version 4.0 of Servoy. Just check the ServoyWorld 2008 Newsletter you received earlier this month for the right Promotional Code to enter at sign-up, and we'll give you the first 30 days of your subscription completely free. And, even after that first month, if you choose ProjectLocker Lite, you can have your company's source code reliably hosted and secured in an enterprise-caliber environment every month for less than the cost of your lunch today.

Feel free to contact us at sales at projectlocker dot com or our friends at sales at servoy dot com for more information.

ProjectLocker sponsors the ServoyWorld Series of Poker

Damon Young — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:11:00 -0500

As a part of our ServoyWorld 2008 festivities, ProjectLocker is also the official sponsor for Servoy's poker tournament, poised to close out the Vegas conference in grand fashion on Thursday night, September 4th. More details about the tourney can be found on the main ServoyWorld "Outings" page.

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.

Agile developers deliver faster when ProjectLocker teams with Rally Software

Damon Young — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:05:00 -0500

As I said before: We like Agile.

So, it only makes sense for ProjectLocker to lend a helping hand to the biggest Agile project management platform in the world. As we announced just last week, ProjectLocker has now entered into a strategic partnership with Rally Software, and we're just added the first of what we expect to be a series of technical integrations between our two products.

Starting today, all ProjectLocker Lite and Enterprise customers can configure their Subversion commit notifications to update tickets in Rally while also providing a link back to the commit itself within Rally. Now, teams who use Rally to manage their Agile projects can empower all of their team members (developers, testers, project managers, etc.) to look directly into the code in question on a given ticket or issue. Conversely, ProjectLocker customers who choose to use Rally can now add their powerful Agile management hub to their suite of tools, bringing all of the other stakeholding constituencies into the development process while still supporting many of their preferred applications. By giving both developers and testers easier direct access to the relevant source data, bugs and problems can be identified and resolved much more rapidly, increasing your time to market.

If you're a Rally customer interested in using ProjectLocker, or a ProjectLocker customer interested in Rally, contact us at sales@projectlocker.com, and we can help you get started with whichever half of the partnership you need. If you're currently using both ProjectLocker and Rally, contact our technical support staff, and they can walk you through the integration process.

In the meantime, watch this space for future integration announcements.

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.