Saturday, June 23, 2007

When I think Web 2.0 I don't think about fancy Javascript effects and whether the site was developed with Ruby on Rails I expect a site that delivers a complete solution to a problem. Having recently been referred to Unfuddle by my Soap colleague Shane I was pleasantly suprised how easy hosted SVN could be. For a start the designers have taken the Basecamp approach to the user interface, simple tabs take you from milestones to source code to tickets etc. It is really easy to set up and you just need to install an SVN client (I'm using svnX). Once installed and logged in you're away, you can go to the dashboard to post or read tickets, milestones and messages, you can invite people to contribute to the project, set up new projects and of course most importantly view all code revisions in case you need to roll back or branch your code. Oh and it's pretty cheap too, only $9/month for 10 users working on up to 3 projects so for a small web team this is ideal. You can go unlimited for $99/month but I presume companies with this kind of need will have it's own IT dept. to set up a subversion system for them.

Jon 2:39 PM Permalink