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Social coding @Codaset

So I’ve been busy. Like I mentioned in an earlier post I’ve been working together with a school friend of mine on a new Rails project.

So since the main goal of these projects I’m doing in my spare time is to learn allot and gain as much experience as possible we decided to use some stuff that was new to both of us. The first new thing being GIT.

Up un-till now I’ve been using SVN for my home and school projects while being stuck with an ancient version of Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe at work. GIT is something entirely different. Git, unlike SVN and MVS is a DVCS which stands for Distributed Version Control System. This means that GIT doesn’t use a centralized repository model like SVN and MVS but instead every user has their own repository stored locally. If you want to find out more about GIT I recommend reading Pragmatic Version Control using GIT. It took me a while to get used to the separation of commit and push but so far I’ve been really impressed with GIT and will start using it for all my new and upcoming projects.

Since I started this project with my school buddy who lives 200 Km’s away we needed a remote repository. Then I remembered I found a site called ‘codaset’ on a lazy afternoon of browsing for webapps. Codaset is a nice webapp created by Joel Moss. It allows you to host private and public git repositories as-well as a hybrid of the two (closed source but open wiki & tickets). It’s still in beta right now but according to Joel not for long. Many of you will think, isn’t that exactly like GitHub ? and yes, it’s allot like GitHub. But it also offers some advantages. Joel asked me to participate in a discussion about his proposed payment plans. After Codaset comes out of beta it will use a “Pay-as-you-go” payment plan. Meaning you’ll only pay for what you use. To me as a small developer that is a big advantage. The biggest advantage for other starters however is that Joel has decided that he will make your first private repository free unlike GitHub where you have to cough up 7$ a month just to start your first private project. I’ve been really pleased with Codaset so far aside from the few bugs that are to be expected when using beta software.

Whether GitHub or Codaset is better doesn’t really matter. It’s always nice to have options. I’ll leave it up to you to decide which is better.

Are you going to give Codaset a try ?

Progress

I’d like to give a quick update on what I’m up to and how I’m making progress on my personal projects. As you could read earlier I’m doing some RoR (Reading on Rails to do some Ruby on Rails later). I have a great book and I’ve got off to a great start with the framework.

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