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By: Greg Larkin, Managing Member, SourceHosting.net,
LLC
Date: September 22, 2006
SourceHosting.net is a premier provider of hosted
Subversion, CVS and Bugzilla accounts, but our technical expertise
in software development and release engineering also enables us
to offer Professional Services to
any company that needs assistance in those areas.
Many of SourceHosting.net's clients use our
hosted source code control service in a self-sufficient manner,
but if your development team has grown in number and location,
it often becomes difficult to manage it and the need for enhanced
functionality arises. SourceHosting.net Professional Services offers
technical expertise, consulting services and development resources
to augment and assist your team in whatever way is needed.
Our projects are only limited by our client's
imaginations, and SourceHosting.net Professional Services are
available to any software development team, whether they are a
hosted repository client of ours or not.
To give some examples , SourceHosting.net
has recently completed the following projects for its Professional
Services clients:
| Project |
Benefit to Client |
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| Dynamic PHP web site providing user management
functions for in-house CVS repository using SSH public key
authentication |
Able to easily
manage
user creation/deletion from a web-based interface.
Public key management functions exposed to end users to
relieve repository administrator of the task. |
| Remote installation
of Subversion, Eventum and WebSVN including commit email notification
hooks and Subversion/Eventum integration implementation |
Cost-effective
means of deploying an in-house Subversion repository. Additional
features implemented to promote intra-group communication and
project tracking. |
| Per-incident
technical support advice on branching and merging best practices
for CVS |
Backup technical
support resource available for client as needed. Best practices
guidance prevents development time lost to source code repository
misconfiguration. |
| Custom Perl script
to import non-Bugzilla data into Bugzilla |
Client preserves
intellectual property during migration to Bugzilla and prevents
development process disruption. |
SourceHosting.net offers a unique skill set
to our clients, including the following technologies and expertise:
- Networking/firewalls/security
- Hardware specification and provisioning
- Operating system administration (Linux/FreeBSD/various
UNIX/Windows)
- Database design and administration (MySQL/SQL
Server/MS Access)
- Web server administration (Apache/IIS)
- Server-side web development (PHP/.NET/Perl/Java/Cold
Fusion/ASP)
- General Programming (Perl/.NET/Shell script/Java/Visual
Basic)
- On-site or web-enabled technical training
sessions and seminars
- Application technical support (per-incident
or retainer)
If you have questions
or comments about this article or would like information about
SourceHosting.net Professional Services, please contact
us or request a quote.
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