So since I flipped the switch last night, Codaset has had a lot of new signups and a fair amount of interest. It's been tweeted about, and hit the frontpage of Reddit, so thank you to all. But one thing I keep hearing is your concerns about what will happen when the beta ends. So I just wanted to put a few things straight, and dissolve any confusion.

First of all, Codaset will always be free to all open source projects. If your source is open, we would love to have you on board, and will not charge you a penny.

Secondly, when Codaset comes out of beta later this year, it will employ a freemium business model. This means that there will be several pricing plans, starting from a free plan, and including sever...   [ continue reading » ]

I am very pleased to announce that Codaset has ended it's private beta phase, and is now open to all. The beta tag is still in place, so the site is effectively in public beta. This means that no invite is needed to register and create an account. Anyone can create projects, and anyone can take part in any activity on the site.

Along with this announcement, also brings with it a few bug fixes, and minor improvements. Nothing huge, but you should find that browsing the site in Safari is much improved, and several styling bugs have been fixed. I also added URL slugs to milestones, which means your Milestones look prettier and are more familiar to browse.

So I am hoping that with this announcement and release, we will start to see an increase in the number of registered users, and active users. And of course, Codaset is one step closer ...   [ continue reading » ]

So Codaset now has full site searching, which I gotta say is really very useful! It was also surprisingly easy to setup and code, thanks mainly to the power of Sphinx, and its Rails plugin counterpart: Thinking Sphinx. So here's how to implement full text searching within your Rails apps.

Install Sphinx

Just run the following three commands on your server or dev machine to install Sphinx:

./configure
make
sudo make install

That will setup Sphinx with default for use with MySQL. If you want to use it with PostgreSQL, then run configure with the following flag:

./configure --with-pgsql

Install Thinking Sphinx

Even though there are a couple of Sphinx plugins ...   [ continue reading » ]

Another late night of exciting hacking ended early this morning, with yet another weekly release.

Site-wide Search

Oft requested, and not rightly so; searching is now here, and working brilliantly thanks to the awesomeness that is Sphinx and Thinking Sphinx.

If you head on over the http://codaset.com/search or simply use the search box at the top of this page (if you are reading this on the site), you can search for anything on Codaset, and the busy little hamsters that live within the Sphinx full text search engine, will very quickly find all the projects, tickets, blog posts, wiki pages and users which match your search terms. Thanks to the genius that Sphinx, the search is insan...   [ continue reading » ]

Just a quick note to let you all know about this weeks release, which went live a few minutes ago.

Spam Protection

The last few weeks has seen more and more traffic and usage of Codaset, by more and more people. Because of this, the site has been receiving a fair amount of comment and ticket spam. Spam protection has been on the cards from day one, but wasn't going to be implemented until a later date. But I got fed up of deleting spam comments, so I expedited the inclusion of spam protection.

As of now, every single project on Codaset includes full; support for Akismet spam protection. Every comment for your blog and tickets, as well as every single ticket is now checked for spam using the Akismet service. Comment and tickets flagged as spam will not be viewable, but can be accessed via your project's admin. From there, you c...   [ continue reading » ]