Project Hosting with Codespaces

I’ve been using Codespaces for a few months now and have to say I really like it. Floyd Price started this Subversion hosting solution 3 years ago in his basement. Now based in Coventry (UK), his group of 6 continue to develop this Ruby on Rails project management software, driven largely by my personal complaints I’m sure.

What I like most is how separate and configurable projects and repositories are. I can create any number of “projects” in my space, attach multiple SVN repos to each, and even share repos between projects. It allows me the freedom to invite contributors to some projects and keep other projects all to myself. Each project has a ticket system, wiki, file storage, and can have a public portal for the community to read up on projects and even submit bugs. Now all I need is custom design and a sandwich maker!

Love the service, keep it up Floyd and co.

Flight Framework: Another Flex Framework?

At 360|Flex this last month there were 5 different framework-centric presentations, from Adobe’s Cairngorm down to build-your-own-framework. Each framework presents its own virtues and vice’s, each developed to solve their originator’s focused set of organizational problems encountered in their architecture. I’m not an expert in any one of these frameworks and so won’t compare or contrast this list of projects to determine the “best” one. Even better, I have one more to throw on the pile: Flight Framework. Yet another framework, another methodology, another workflow for Flash and Flex application development … why? Why offer another option in the crowd of mulling libraries that vie for popularity?
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It Will Be: The not-a-blog

I generally think of Blogs as a useful (and sometimes a useless) collection of thoughts, information, or even meaningless conversation. But one important distinction is that it is a collection, not was a post once. So I write this post in way of an apology for this not-a-blog excuse of a website, and to commemorate a 2-year (plus some) break of silence.

Thank you Jacob, for always linking to the website though it’s little more than a url. And thanks to Andy and all those who have ever prodded me to write more (more doesn’t seem the right word) on my blog. It might actually be a regular thing someday, if I learn not to wait for that next redesign to feel like I can write again.