Looking back at Intland in 2009

2009 has been a busy year for Intland. Lots enhancements in our products, lots of awesome customers wordwide, lots of valueable feedback from the community, and lots of exciting changes in the collaboration space.

Let's see the most important events along our 2009 timeline:

Moving JavaForge to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud

In the beginning of the year (pretty much during the Christmas holiday actually, so that we interfere the least with always-busy open source enthusiasts), we moved JavaForge.com, our free project hosting service, from a traditional hosting environment to the Amazon EC2 cloud infrastructure. Our motivation was a mix of enhancing availability, lowering operational costs, experimenting with the cloud, and most importantly providing higher quality service for our users.
Experiences: so far so good, the story is not over yet. During the whole year, competition in the cloud computing space was fierce, and we expect major changes in 2010 as well (within months). At the moment we keep our eye primarily on Amazon EC2, Google App Engine and SpringSource Cloud Foundry.

Release of codeBeamer 5.3

This release satisfied some long time feature requests, like aggregation and distribution of issue properties, and introducing wiki pages as tracker dashboards. It also incorporated major performance improvements and an early access version of the Mercurial support.
Even if the Mercurial support in codeBeamer 5.3 was considered early access, this was a major cornerstone of future codeBeamer versions (see the next item to figure out why).

Making Distributed Version Control a core strategy

High emphasis on Distributed Version Control was one of the most important decisions we made during the year, if not the most important one. We are big believers in the superiority of the distributed collaboration approach, thus:

• codeBeamer, our Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management solution, now supports Git and Mercurial repositories in addition to Subversion, CVS and such.
• We launched a brand new free tool, codeBeamer Managed Repositories, that makes creating and managing Subversion, Git and Mercurial reporistories quick and easy.
• We released a Mercurial plugin for Eclipse, HgEclipse, that makes it possible to collaborate on really large projects in the Eclipse IDE.

We will move forward along these lines in 2010, more details on our plans a little later.

Twitter and Facebook

We successfully launched our Twitter stream and our Facebook page. We have been fairly active on Twitter engaging with our users, spreading useful links and exciting short news, following the trends, but we were not really spending much time on Facebook. (This is something we will change in 2010.)
For now, just follow @intland on Twitter and become a fan of codeBeamer at Facebook if you don't want to miss anything that matters.

Release of codeBeamer 5.4

Big new features were: editing wiki pages in Microsoft Word directly (neat!), improved support for Git and Mercurial, calculated issue properties, issue escalation, just to name a few.
Looking at the download counts, 5.4 is the most popular codeBeamer version ever. Go and get a free download or free live trial.

Release of codeBeamer Managed Repositories 1.0

Later in the year we launched codeBeamer Managed Repositories (or MR in short). Learning from our own experiences, we wanted to save time and headache for Subversion, Git and Mercurial users, and to make repository management quick, easy and convenient.
Despite of the festive season, more than 1000 users installed codeBeamer MR in December only. Don't miss your late Christmas present , codeBeamer Managed Repositories is still available for free download.

Release of HgEclipse 1.5.0-RC1

Converting from Subversion to Mercurial was the biggest change in our interal development tool set and processes. (We blogged about it here, here and here.) After the initial frustration we are happy we made the change. This project was a sort of spin-off of the migration process, which we developed for our own needs and then made it publicly available.
You can install HgEclipse in 5 seconds, and feel free to join the project any time.

And how about 2010?

Please wait a little for our next blog post, coming soon.

Finally

Thank you so much for your support and in-sights in 2009, you are an AWESOME community!

Posted at 02:47PM Jan 06, 2010 by Intland Team in News  |  0 Comments