Want Free Subversion, Trac, Mylyn, and More? Of course you do.

If the idea of 500 Mb of free Subversion, Trac (with XML-RPC access for things like Mylyn), Wiki, and a whole lot more sounds like a good thing to you, check out Assembla.com. I signed up last night and am really quite floored.

This thing has virtually everything one could want in a project management, source code, ticket tracking, and team collaboration setup. And again, it's free for up to 500 Mb of stuff. And after that it is a paltry $12.50 per month for 5 Gb of storage, plus a few extras like https access.

I've been hosting my own SVN locally but have increasingly been thinking about moving it to an external service so that I can get to it from anywhere. This seals the deal. So far, Assembla has been very impressive, and if it keeps up, I'll be springing for the $12 commercial account and be done with it.

Have a look if you have been thinking about jumping on the Subversion or Trac bandwagon but don't have the time or inclination to set up your own server. And if anyone else has been using Assembla, please share! Thanks.

ColdFusion Community Toolbar

Hey just a quick note about the ColdFusion Community Toolbar that I saw mentioned on Ben Nadel's Blog. It's a browser toolbar plugin, and it's pretty slick!

It has a CF-specific search to let you search the documentation. It has pull-down tabs for Community (latest CF-Talk posts, latest CFDJ articles, etc.), Blogs (latest MXNA, FullAsAGoog, etc.), Markup and CSS validators, CF Job Postings, and an integrated mp3 player that has all the CF-related podcasts.

I must say it's very nicely done! Kudos to Fusion Authority and Epicenter for building this.

Firefox 2.0 Released

Most folks are probably already aware, but just in case, Firefox 2.0 was released a few minutes ago!

Carbonite Backup

Just a quick entry here to mention a very nice backup tool called Carbonite. Unfortunately, it currently only runs on Windows XP, but if you run XP it is very handy. It runs in your system tray and lets you back up anything on your hard drive to their storage servers using your high-speed internet connection.

I'm a bit of a backup junkie because I've been through the pain of losing all your data (or music or whatever) and it really, really sucks. Bad. I run backups to an external hard drive, but this wouldn't save me in the event of a fire or burglary. Carbonite encrypts everything and stores it off site, and they give you unlimited space. The best part is, it's only $50 a year. That is $4 month for unlimited, secure, offsite backups of your critical data. Which is a really good deal in my humble opinion. Anyone out there tried Carbonite? What do you think of it? And in general, do you run backups? If so, what is your approach?

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