ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

http://workspace.activestate.com/

by dbarefoot • 17 years ago

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workspace.activestate.com

jeremyw• 17 years ago

Summary: another hosted trac site.

haseman• 17 years ago

not as smooth, elegant, or intuitive as basecamp. It could just be that I'm biased because I've been using basecamp for the past 2 years.

jmtame• 17 years ago

Couple of UI tips: Center-align the layout. It's way too busy, I have no idea what I should read first or even click on. Cut out 90% of that text and assume your user has never been your site before. Show me pics and tell me why I should switch from Basecamp. It's also loaded with colors; I feel like I should be wearing a hard hat on this site.

epall• 17 years ago

How is this particularly different from a paid GitHub account? Now that they have issue tracking, it's pretty much a one-stop shop.

sanswork2• 17 years ago

The issue tracking on github is very basic and just about useless in my experience for managing any private development environment. Hopefully they continue to improve it like the rest of their services so I won't have to use other systems in the future but it's really not there yet.

pjhyett• 17 years ago

How would you like us to improve it so it isn't useless to you?

shakedown• 17 years ago

Definitely a far cry from Basecamp's intuitive design. Although, this may evolve into something worthwhile in it's own respect, as ActiveState's Komodo Edit is my editor of choice: it's fast, free, extensible and open source. In it's current state 'ActiveState Workspace' doesn't seem like much, but I'm interested to see how it evolves.

datums• 17 years ago

I don't understand how this is a basecamp for developers. More like hosted svn and trac. Might do better if marketed that way.

dbarefoot• 17 years ago

I was thinking that the project blogs, wikis, forums and the fact that it's hosted (plus the developer-specific stuff) make it like Basecamp.

donniefitz2• 17 years ago

I think I'll stick with Assembla. It's the same concept but not as mature. Nothing against it, but it's not really all that unique.

Barnabas• 17 years ago

I'm not sure how this differs from Unfuddle.com, except that it's not out of beta yet. Unfuddle is pretty great by the way; I was part of a distributed team of about 20 on a large project last year, and that company used Unfuddle for that and about 40 other projects.

Nevertheless, here's to more choices and good competitive pressure for all the developer project infrastructure companies out there.

ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

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