Posts Tagged: Hosting

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
25
Aug 09

Some Code Space Updates.

We have just publish the following updates to the Code Spaces application.

  • Fixed Require SSL Support
    If you select “Applicaion Requires SSL” or “Login Requires SSL” in the Code Spaces admin section this will be reflected by the App.
  • SVN Over SSL Option
    You have always been able to use svn over SSL, however you now have the option in the Code Spaces admin section to force SSL.
  • Activity Timeline
    You will notice a new tab names “Activity Timeline”, this is a simple top down view of your project activity.
  • Time Tracking
    We have moved the time tracking attributes to a tab inside the Work Item editor and added estimates and actual attributes (We will be creating Burn Rate and velocity graphs for the next release).
  • Language Support
    We have added support for multiple languages (although we currently only have English) and will be adding more languages this week, including German, French and Spanish. Please let us know if you require any other languages.

That’s about all for now ;-)

As always let us know if you have any issues and/or comments…

Cheers,

Floyd Price
Code Spaces

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
25
Jul 09

Free accounts

No More Free Plan!

On the 1st of August 2009 we will be removing the FREE Code Spaces plan and replacing it with a Mini Plan that will cost $2.99 per month.

All existing FREE plan customers will be given 2 months further for FREE and will then need to either switch or move to another FREE host.

Why are we doing this?

Many of the features we are adding (and have added recently) are aimed at higher end customers who by definition do not fit on the FREE plan.

We also feel that our service is somewhat more than simple SVN hosting and as such we feel that it adds little value to our user community to continue serving Free svn users.

What about my Open Source or Non-profit project?

We are proud to support over 100 non profit (and Open Source) projects and will continue to do so, this announcement will not change our position on this.

Give us your feedback?

As always, we are happy to listen to feedback and would love to hear your thoughts, Contact us Here.

Code Spaces / Observations / Subversion / Tips — No Comments
30
Jun 09

Svn Backups

Further to Adrian’s recent announcement about v2.6 I would also like to add that the SVN Backups tab is now available via the Admin tab, which gives you direct access to your SVN backups.

Please let us know if you have any feedback for any of these enhancements?

Cheers,

Floyd Price
Code Spaces

Subversion / Tips — No Comments
25
Mar 09

Code Spaces v2.5

We are pleased to announce the availability of Code Spaces v2.5, this is the first in a series of updates that will bring us to v3.0 over the coming months.

This update includes many foundational enhancements, performance updates and extra scaling options, including:

  • Infrastructure Update
    All the Code Spaces SVN, App and database servers are now running on Amazon EC2 and as such we have updated all components to take advantage of the almost limitless scaling opportunities.
  • Changes to Plans
    With our new found abundance of space and processing power we have updated the Code Spaces Plans, in a nut shell all plans now have unlimited projects and repositories and the FREE plan now has 500MB of disk space (10x what it was).
  • Card Walls
    A new tab has been introduced to Code Spaces between the Dashboard and Work Items called “Card Wall”.
    A Card wall is a visualization of Work items, and allows work items to be displayed as cards in virtual swim lanes that represent categories such as Work Item Status, or Assigned To. Within the context of a milestone Card Walls give Agile teams the ability to plan, estimate, do Stand Ups, etc all from the Code Spaces UI.
    The Card Wall section also allows for convenient dragging and dropping between swim lanes, so re-allocating or prioritizing work items couldn’t be easier.
  • Browser Rendering Issues
    All known IE6, 7 and 8 rendering issues have been resolved.
    Firefox 3+ exhibited rendering issues on the Code Spaces Dashboard where the timeline would bleed through any components above like menus or dialogs. This has been resolved.
  • Email Notifications
    Users can now receive email notifications from activity in the Code Spaces forums.
    Admins can now specify user notification preferences in the User Admin section.
  • Return URLs
    Previously the Code Spaces application would redirect to the login page when an login was required which is great, however the context of the request was lost and the user would not be returned back to the page they requested after a successful login, this has now been resolved.
  • Backup Changes
    We now use the snapshot feature of Amazons Elastic Block storage to take block level backups every 10 minutes, we are also taking actual backups of each repository as a commit occurs meaning we have a much greater capacity to respond to failure.

A few other not so noteworthy bugs have been fixed and many performance improvements have been applied.

As i mentioned this is one of many updates that we will be applying over the coming months, v2.6 is scheduled to go live in exactly one month from now ;-)

As always please Contact Us if you have any suggestions ;-)

Many Thanks,

Floyd Price
Code Spaces

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
9
Feb 09

Beta Testers Required.

We are doing some Beta testing and need a few willing volunteers to help us out.

If you are interested please Contact Us.

Sorry for being a little secretive at this point, more details to follow ;-)

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
16
Jan 09

Code Spaces Translations

One of our wonderful users (you know who you are) has offered to help us translate Code Spaces into Spanish.

Please let us know if you would like a translation in to any other language, and even better if you are willing to help ;-)

Many Thanks.

Floyd Price
Code Spaces

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
11
Jan 09

SVN 1.5.5 Upgrade Complete and Code Spaces v3.0 is coming.

The planned upgrade to Subversion 1.5.5 went ahead today and was completed without incident (it’s always nice when that happens).

While i’m here i thought i would give a quick note about our plans for CodeSpaces v3.0 ;-)

Scope

  • UI Re-write
    Many users have stated that the current UI isn’t quick enough for continued use and some of the UI conventions arn’t as intuative as they could be, with this in mind we are completeley re-writing the UI with Speed and Ease of use being our guiding principles.
  • Time Tracking
    Tracking time against Work Items is essential for project managers, as such this will be implemented in v3.0
  • Card Walls
    For Agile teams that use Card Walls (story boards) we have developed an integrated card wall module that incorperates the Code Spaces Work Items, Milestones and Users.
  • Project Admins
    The current system allows for many Accoutn admins but not specific project admins, this is a real pain to our customers with multiple projects.
  • SVN Commit Postbacks
    When a commit occures on one of your repositories you can specifiy a postbacj URL that the Code Spaces system will call detailing the commit details, this will allow for easy integration with other systems post commit.
  • Code Spaces API
    The current Beta API will be re-written taking in to account the feedback that we have been given over the last few months.
  • Subversion Folder Permissions
    Subversion allows for granular permissions that are currently not exposed via the Code Spaces system, this will be resolved in v3.0
  • Large Commit Issues
    Some users report time out issues with large commits, after investigation we have identified a flaw in the underlying technology that we developed to manage multiple SVN accounts and servers, this will be enhanced as part of v3.0

Schedule

We will be releasing a Live BETA towards the end of this quarter to allow users to test the NEW UI against existing Data, We will then schedule in a Live release resulting in a complete migration from the v2.x UI to the v3.0 UI in the following month.

Feedback

Most of the v3.0 functionality is already developed but now is the time to give feedback on these features or any missing functionality that you might have noticed.

Subversion — No Comments
9
Jan 09

SVN 1.5 Upgrade

We are please to announce that we will be upgrading our SVN cluster to Subversion 1.5 this weekend.

The Subversion cluster will be unavailible from 10:00(GMT) to 11:00(GMT) on Sunday the 11th Jan 2009

Once the upgrade is completed normal service will be resumed.

Cheers,

Floyd.

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
8
Jun 08

Upgrade Complete

Part 1 of 3 major upgrades to the Code Spaces software and infrastructure has now been completed.

This upgrade includes much of the v2.0 functionality and some of the hardware upgrades to support it, we will be doing the second part of this upgrade in two weeks.

So What’s New?

Project Portals

Each project can now have a project portal, which can be public (anyone can see it) or private (only users you create can see it) – Portals consist of several pages from you project wiki and can include pages to submit bugs and view public work items.

Email Notifications

You can now subscribe to events such as Subversion Commits via email, simply go to your profile admin and select the notifications you wish to receive – Make sure you check you registered email address is correct?

Document Module

You can now upload documents to Code Spaces.

Anonymous SVN access

We now allow anonymous SVN read access, to enable this go to the project admin section and modify the repository settings.

Wiki

We have improved the wiki syntax and rendering to support the project portals.

Dashboard

We have included a new Subversion Stats module to the dashboard which gives a visual representation of your teams activity.

Caching

Many elements of Code Spaces have been re-written to make better use of caching, which means you should see some performance improvements.

Code Spaces / Subversion — No Comments
7
Jun 08

Office Move

As many of you may know we moved into a new office last week, as such our contact details have changed

Code Spaces
Unit 1.17
The TechnoCentre
Coventry University Technology Centre
Puma Way
CV12TT
PHONE : +44 (0)2476 792025


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