I came across this analysis earlier today & after reading it feel that I better understand what has happened & why:

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/diamond-and-kashyap-on-the-recent-financial-upheavals/

A big thanks to Diamond & Kashyap for publishing this.

Tags: markets, wall street, bailout

We are preparing to introduce the paid Silver account plans. This will compliment the existing Silver accounts, which will remain free.

The table below compares the new plans, and you can immediately see that the larger team sizes will pay more. Why? Because secure, effective collaboration is critically important as your team size grows. The cost of correcting mistakes made as a result of poor communication, lack of clear requirements or the dreaded “…I emailed you the latest version” practice is enormous. These plans reflect the reality that those costs scale with team size.

As you can see, the Developer Plan will remain free. We take our mission seriously – to provide software developers with the tools they need to securely, effectively and efficiently collaborate globally. That’s why over 20,000 teams depend upon Freepository to bring their teams together every day.

If you’d like to hear more about the new plans or hear when they are available, subscribe to CommaVee (use the big orange RSS icon in the top left corner). You’ll get the very latest news.

Tags: freepository, svn, subversion

We’re pleased to add another IDE to the list of officially supported direct clients

RadRails - http://www.radrails.org

Radrails is built on the Eclipse tool foundation, and as such, provides the same connectivity as Eclipse itself. Your Freepository Silver Account SVN repository may be accessed in Radrails by simply adding a new SVN Repository in the SVN Repository Exploring perspective. When prompted for the SVN URL, type in your Silver account SVN URL like this:

https://svn.freepository.com/[your-account-id]

This is the same URL that you will find in your admin menu when you login to Freepository. Be sure not to use your Trac URL – that one has ‘-web’ on the end of it.

To register for Freepository Silver Edition, go to the registration page and select the Silver Plan.

Tags: freepository, svn, radrails

The next major redesign of the Freepository is in the planning stage now. The focus of this release, tentatively scheduled for early May 2007, is ripping out as much of the legacy CGI as possible and replacing it with asynchronous calls to either the database or the repository server.

Ajax? Yeah. But please don’t start shouting web 2.0 or any of the other silly-sexy terms being thrown around by every dime-store startup CEO that walks past. The core application will remain rock-solid on-demand source control, defect & issue tracking, release management and wikis. We’ll apply the UI elements where it makes sense, but where old-school is still best… we’ll be partying like it’s 1999…

If you’re a software developer, you’ll like what we have planned.

Tags: freepository, svn, cvs, ajax, ui

In January, I began offering a new account type at Freepository – Silver Edition. Silver provides on-demand trac views of your subversion-managed freepository. For a limited time, Freepository Silver Edition, which provides hosted SVN and Trac, is available free of charge.

With 45 days of data to review, I can see some interesting trends. Developers (who are now coming to the site via word-of-mouth at the rate of 97% – see http://commavee.com/2006/11/10/referrals-vs-direct-visitors/), still want CVS, but are also very interested in SVN. The mix of new registrations now is about 50-50 (half for CVS accounts and half for SVN).

Freepository Silver Edition allows software development teams to instantly come together in a shared workspace, where source & version control, defect & issue tracking, and release management is provided securely through the browser. Your Freepository SVN repository may be accessed with any standard SVN client. All access is via HTTPS, so you can be sure your transmissions are secure. No matter where your team members are located, they can now quickly, effectively and securely collaborate with each other.

To register for Freepository Silver Edition, go to the registration page at http://freepository.com and select the Silver Plan.

Tags: svn, subversion, freepository, cvs