Tuesday, January 18, 2011

New Website

I've gotten us web hosting to use for our 3rd year projects, the URL is http://rainbowprojectiles.com. The site is empty at the moment, but I'm looking for suggestions on what pages, programs, scripts, etc. to add. I'm predominantly looking for a project management program/script; I've got an example list of of about 10 to choose from, but if there are any you can recommend, then I'll look into them.

The website has support for SVN, so we can use version control, to hopefully avoid any slip-ups like we had in 1st year when we accidentally submitted the old version of one of our files. I'll create a step-by-step for everyone on how to setup TortoiseSVN+PuTTY in Windows to work with the SVN repository. I can also provide instructions for Mac/Linux if anyone prefers to use them.

Everyone will need a RSA key-pair to connect to the repository. For those who know how to generate a key-pair, you can send me an email containing the public key so I can give you access to the repository, or if you don't know what you are doing, or would prefer me to generate the key for you, then I'll need an email address to send your private key to.

The website also has support for up to 25 email addresses of the form name@rainbowprojectiles.com; If anyone wants an email address, I'll need you to give me your preferred choice for the username.

*EDIT*

The site currently contains a wiki at: http://rainbowprojectiles.com/wiki/, a chat room at: http://rainbowprojectiles.com/chat/, and a project management suite at: http://rainbowprojectiles.com/dotproject/.

I need an email address from everyone, so I have somewhere to send your private key.

The step-by-step for connecting to our SVN repository is now available at: http://rainbowprojectiles.com/wiki/index.php/SVN_Access