We will be refreshing Code Spaces today with several bug fixes and new features.

I thought i would take this opportunity to give you all a sneak at the new dashboard with Project Milestone integration.

Notice that the timeline now shows icons for specific project events like subversion commit, Work Item status changes and Project Milestones.

The recent subversion commits module allows for easy navigation to the repository browser or the revision viewer.

Click on the thumbnail for a bigger version.

Keep an eye on Code Spaces today for your very own Code Spaces Dashboard ;-)

We installed the open ssl build of apache on our SVN cluster today and deployed the SSL cert, which means we now offer subversion over SSL to all users as standard.

To make use of the SSL layer simply use https instead of the http protocol that you have been using to date for your subversion server (e.g. https://svn.codespaces.com/[your_domain]/[your_repository])

We were originally only going to offer SSL to higher end customers but thankfully we came to our senses and realized that everybody needs SSL for transferring code…

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We had an issue yesterday with the Subversion repositories not being created.

This has now been resolved and all subversion repositories created during this period are now active.

Floyd

Yesterday we recieved our 200th user registration, which is absolutly amazing, given that this Beta is only a week old.

The application has had a few tweaks over the last 2 days to improve performace, however the major updates will happen over the weekend including:

• Linking Workitems to SVN commits
• Project Milestones
• Road Map & Change Logs
• Reporting

Thanks to everyong who is using Code Spaces for you support so far, and I hope we can continue to keep you all interested going forward ;-)

Floyd

If you want a Code Spaces Beta account please visit codespaces.com and click on the “Sign Up” link.

Thanks Guys,

Floyd

I finally managed to iron out all the deployment issues and get the Code Spaces Beta onto our servers last night.

To date I have recieved 146 requests for Beta accounts which I have to say is (a lot) more than I expected, As a result its taking me a while to set them all up. I created about 15 accounts last night and will do some more today, but I will also implement a website at www.codespaces.com where you can create your own accounts (either today or tomorrow).

This Beta release is far from being the complete product but it’s definatly usable. The following features did not make this release but will be implemented shortly.

• Quick Search The right hand pane contains a Quick Search box, however the code for this is currently commented out as it’s not complete. I expect to have this done by the weekend.

• Project Milestones This feature is currently missing and will be implemented next week.

• Road Map and Change Log These features require the Milestones functionality and will be implemented next week.

• Linking Work Items to SVN Revisions I have developed a novel way of linking workitems for svn revisions however the code is not quite finnished so it did not make this release, I expect to have this implemented in a week.

• Documents I plan to include a documents tab where you will be able to upload document and link them to SVN revisions, Milestones or Work Items however several dependancies need to be implemented before i can start this.

• Wiki The wiki functionality currently availible is limited, and required a better style sheet. I plan to implement this next week.

• Public Portal We plan to implement a pubilc portal where your customers/users can see project details that you wish to publish as well as forums and documents. This will be implemented within a month (or two).

• Performance I have not made any effort in reducing the size of the CSS and JS, I have also not added the required indexes to the CodeSpaces database. As a result the performance of the application is not as good as it should be (although it’s more than usable). I will implement the database indexes tommorrow and enable gZip on the appache server to reduce the js and css size next week.

• Account Registration As I mentioned i’m currenlty creating the Beta accounts manually, however I will implement a real codespaces.com website over the next two days that will give product information and enable the creation of Accounts for anyone who wishes to try it out.

Please let me know if you can think of any further issues, or features and i will add them to the ever growing Todo List.

The first Beta of codespaces is going to be released on Monday the 6th Aug 2007 (thats 3 days away).

It is not feature complete however it is more than usable, infact Codespaces itself is now hosted in Codespaces (sounds weird doesn’t it).

Anyone who wishes to participate in the Beta can either wait until monday for instructions or send an email to beta[at]codespaces.com and i will set you up in advance.

UPDATE
Its all done I just need to upload the code to the server and setup the apache servers.

Ok, I’m running a little behind with the Public Beta of CodeSpaces.com.

I fully expect to have it ready in the next few days so Watch This Space ;-)

As we get closer to our first BETA, we are also starting to get a clearer picture of the pricing model we wish to implement for CodeSpaces.

Basically we have come up with the following pricing model for small busesiness (and Micro ISVs).

Single User
1 Project, 2 subversion repositories, Wiki, Work Items, Project Management, Daily Backups and 100mb disk space.
FREE

Micro ISV (up to 2 users.)
Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Subversion Repositories (WITH SSL), Wiki, Work Items, Project Management, Daily Backups and 500mb of Disk space.
$10 (USD) per month.

Small Business (up to 5 users.)
Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Subversion Repositories (WITH SSL), Wiki, Work Items, Project Management, Daily Backups and 1gb of Disk space.
$20 (USD) per month.

Now these figures are not set in stone and your comments will no doubt help in our final decision, so please let us know your thoughts?

I’ts about time I started to show you guys what CodeSpaces is all about, however the BETA still isn’t ready so I thought I would post some screen shots.

As you can see almost everything works….

Work Items

Searching for Work Items

Source Code

Forums

Thats about all for now, but i hope to post more as soon as i can ;-)

Floyd