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ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

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Re: ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

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Post by jmtame »

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.

Re: ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

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Post by shakedown »

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.

Re: ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

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Post by sanswork »

epall wrote: post #5

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

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.

Re: ActiveState launches 'Basecamp for developers'

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Post by dbarefoot »

datums wrote: post #7

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

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.
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