Free online project management

OK, so I reviewed XML editors and I didn’t find anything suitable for me. I drafted technical solutions, scavenged some useful components. Next question: where do I host my project.

I was looking for no-cost, online SVN repositories and quickly realised that I could get an integrated solution for project management.

• XP-Dev.com
• sliksvn.com
• unfuddle.com
• cvsdude.com (SVN is supported)

There is a short article on the topic: Free Subversion Hosting for Small Projects (David Bolton @ About.com)

I’m testing XP-dev. XP-dev has unlimited users and plenty storage (~500mb); other providers charge for projects with 2 users or more.
The interface is straightforward; advertisement it displayed, still OK on my netbook (1024 x 600) so won’t be a problem on anything else.

I scheduled a couple of iterations, 16 stories and 24 tasks. Agile rocks.

Visual XML editors?

I’ve been hunting online for an XML editor with the following features:

• non overlapping tree views
• tabulated attribute lists
• custom actions.

If you had a look at my IDE, Antegram, you will know where I’m coming from: I use non overlapping tree views everyday in my code. To cut a long story short, I’m out of luck as I didn’t find what I was looking for. OK, I admit I’m quite particular about this – I’ll explain another time.

For a quick, unfair overview of what’s around and what it could do for you, read on…

Roughly, the offer is divided between WYSIWYG editors and rational editors. WYSIWYG editors are typically based on XSLT, and that seems powerful and exciting (although I am not quite addicted to XSLT). Skimming through my list I feel that at least 2 or 3 of the editors I found may support custom actions. Rational editors typically offer a wide range of visual tools including a tree view; unfortunately it doesn’t seem that any editor was built around several non overlapping tree view.

Here’s the list anyway:

Open XML Editor

XMLmind

EditiX

My Eclipse

Altova

oXygen

Foxe

Exchanger

XML Notepad

Serna

XMLSpy

Stylus Studio

I also found a few resources that may help in choosing an XML editor:

• ahds.ac.uk compares several editors using extensive criteria
• background article at O’Reilly
• Wikipedia article