Collaborative Coding in the Cloud
In this next installation, I want to introduce you to Project Kenai. The title of this blog says it all but if that's not enough to catch your interest, here's more...
As a Web 2.0 company, or one that wants to grow its online community, collaboration is king because it ensures that you can accomplish your tasks faster, cheaper and more efficiently.
That's where Project Kenai comes in. Project Kenai is a platform and ecosystem for developers. Your developers.
Developers can:
- Freely host up to 5 open source projects and code.
- Connect, collaborate, communicate and code with peers.
- Eventually deploy applications and services to clouds, easily.
It's easy to get started because Kenai includes so many of the features developers need built right in:
- Code Repositories like SVN, Mercurial and external options.
- Issue Tracking like BugZilla and Jira.
- Collaboration Tools including Wiki, forums and mailing lists.
- Document Hosting
- Your Profile
- Administrative Role
Why should you care? In other words, how does this benefit your company?
Allows you to take advantage of shared resources: Developers work together across the Internet!
So, get started today.
- Check out some of the projects already being worked on
- Join the Kenai community
- Request an invitation to host your own project
- Stay connected: Read our blog, follow us on twitter and join our Facebook group
And, remember - if you love it, blog about it!
java.net isn't exactly giving Sun a lot of credibility in the development hosting space.
Posted by Mikael Gueck on March 16, 2009 at 03:45 PM EDT #
Mikael: I hope Kenai will be a different league, my friend. I am 23 old and I would likely never use java.net as it is quite complicated and the web ui is painful... Kenai seems pretty much easier to use. We will see...
Posted by Petr Dvorak on March 16, 2009 at 07:21 PM EDT #