Sunday, October 19, 2008
The Morning After
But I am back now and looking forward to blogging again - SOON !
Check back on Tuesday for an update on subversion hosting solutions.
cs
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Subversion Hosting - The Very Good, the Acceptable and the Lousy
- reliability (uptime, length of time in business,etc)
- site performance
- customer service
- extra features (project management, bug tracking, etc)
- level of community participation
- cost
First, the Very Good. The following companies are the clear winners on performance. Each of these providers of subversion hosting had websites that were materially faster than their competitors and also had 100% uptime over the 10 days that I tested:
http://svnrepository.com/
http://unfuddle.com/
http://beanstalkapp.com/
Next, the Acceptable. The following websites were noticeably slower than svnrepository, unfuddle and beanstalkapp but had acceptable speeds. It should be noted that 2 of these "Acceptable" providers barely made it into this group because of service interruption during my testing period - assembla (> 1 hour) and versionshelf (< 1 hour).
projxprt.com
cvsdude.com
assembla.com
versionshelf.com
Finally, the Absolutely Lousy. I do not know why anybody would use any of these 3 companies to host their code. All 3 of the Absolutely Lousy had websites that were very slow when compared to their competitors . And both codespaces and hosted-projects experienced serious downtime during my test period.
devguard.com
codepsaces.com
hosted-projects.com
Tomorrow I will be back with my findings on the remaining four criteria.
cs
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Looking for New Subversion Hosting - The Criteria
First, a little information about my company. We are small - there are only 5 of us. 3 of us sit in the US and 2 sit in Europe. At any one time we are working on 5 to maybe 10 projects. Our typical project lasts 3 months or longer. Still, we see quite a few projects in a year.
Money matters to us but I expect to pay for subversion hosting. I see that there are some good free subversion hosting companies out there. And I have already opened accounts with several of them just to look around. But we do enough business to justify the expense of having someone else handle the details.
So ... my criteria are
- reliability (uptime, length of time in business,etc)
- site performance
- customer service
- extra features (project management, bug tracking, etc)
- level of community participation
- cost
I expect to have my first "results" in a couple of days.
cs
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Looking for New Subversion Hosting
Although I see no reason to name my current provider, I will name the ones I have decided to consider:
http://cvsdude.com/
http://www.assembla.com/
http://www.hosted-projects.com
http://unfuddle.com/
http://www.projxpert.com/
http://www.codespaces.com/
http://beanstalkapp.com/
http://www.wush.net/subversion.php
http://svnrepository.com/
http://www.versionshelf.com/
http://lighthouseapp.com/
http://www.devguard.com/
Does anyone else have some companies to suggest?
Also, I have my criteria (which I will go into in another post) but I am interested in what others look for in their subversion provider.
Give me a week or so and I will be back to you with my findings.
Monday, June 2, 2008
Rails Conference 2008 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I promised a highlight reel and I am one to keep my promises.
First, the good - John Straw (yellowpages.com) on Surviving the Big Rewrite It's a great read because it's a success story
- Top 100 website in need of a lot more than a facelift
- 125k lines of code becomes less than 20k lines of code in rails
- Slightly less than 1 year from start (investigation and design) to launch
And finally, the ugly - Guy Naor's Deploy Rails Apps Faster than Brewing Coffee The high point - his resume skips 25 work years. The low point - those hideous blue slides that keep reappearing. The even lower (as in subterranean) point - so little content and so much time to fill.
For an overview of some of the presentations, watch Gregg Pollack's RailsConf in 36 minutes Gregg is talented and helps the speakers give good overviews. Enjoy and see you in Berlin!
cs
Sunday, June 1, 2008
The Glass Ceiling at Rails Conference 2008
And that makes you clueless if you do not know what has been going on in
I can also say the world’s nerdiest men with a great deal of certainty. Because who else goes to a conference in
Did you see the list of featured speakers? There’s Thorsten and Dan and Jimmy and Jamie and Ben and a couple of Joshes. There’s Rick and Wilson and Scott and a trio of Brians.
There are more than 100 men lined up to speak but there’s only one woman - Andrea O. K. Wright. What’s with that? Is there only one woman in the world to whom they entrust a sacred Rails podium? Only one woman they respect enough to sit and listen when she whispers scalability and other sweet nothings into their nerdy ears?
That’s what I call the ultimate glass ceiling!
Oh well. As I said, I did not go. But that does not mean there was nothing of value to be heard. You might want to click over to the website next week and listen to some of the presentations. I will. I always learn something. And you probably will too
ps – Rails Conference Europe in Berlin is coming up this September for those of you who would like to visit Europe and do not care what the US$ exchange rate is.
csSaturday, May 31, 2008
Everyone has to start somewhere . . .
Two months ago I was thinking about blogging. One month ago I was feeling guilty that I had not started blogging. This morning I decided to stop feeling guilty and start blogging.
And now I am blogging. For free!
How do "they" do that? How do "they" earn money by giving it away. I looked all over www.blogger.com and there was no place to sign up for a blog that cost me money. How do "they" do that?
I guess I will find out as I go because I intend to blog for free - at least until . . . .
Two basic premises form my basis for this blog. First, the one with the most information usually outperforms. And second, I am where I am because people shared with me - so I intend to share some of the minutiae that I accumulate.
In other words, I like to have an edge so I crave detail. And I am giving back because I was given to.
Even if it turns out that I have something of value to share, how will people find me and this blog? Beats me. Outside of my mother who would read and cherish my To Do list if I would only give it to her, who else will read what I write? Beats me.
So . . . if you are reading this you are either lost or lucky. Time will tell us which.
Either way, I hope you return. I intend to blog about a lot of subjects. Most of them will be about programming (rails, java, etc) and tools that programmers use but occasionally I will veer off into more interesting stuff.
cs