Andrew Peters’ Blog

Looking for a free-as-in-beer issue tracker, forum, and generally flexible project management web application? If so, you could do a lot worse than checking out Redmine. We’ve been using it for a few days at work and I have to say it might be the nicest issue tracking system I’ve ever used.

Here’s the high-level feature list:

• Multiple projects support
• Flexible role based access control
• Flexible issue tracking system
• Gantt chart and calendar
• News, documents & files management
• Feeds & email notifications
• Per project wiki
• Per project forums
• Simple time tracking functionality
• Custom fields for issues, projects and users
• SCM integration (SVN, CVS, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and Darcs)
• Multiple LDAP authentication support
• User self-registration support
• Multilanguage support
• Multiple databases support

Out of the box it works just great, but it’s also extensible and modular and thus easy to customize to your particular requirements. It’s Rails-based too, so diving into the source is pretty easy. We’ve customized how it receives emails and themed it up a little.

Kudos and thanks to the Redmine team for a great piece of software!

Is it just me, or does this list get longer every year? ;-)

Books (Practical/General Developer Interest)

• Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (Addison-Wesley) by Alistair Cockburn
• Catastrophe Disentanglement (Addison-Wesley) by E. M. Bennatan
• Eric Sink on the Business of Software (Apress) by Eric Sink
• Practices of an Agile Developer (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
• Software Creativity 2.0 (DeveloperDotStar) by Robert L. Glass
• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Microsoft Press) by Steve McConnell
• Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method (Dorset House) by Gerald M. Weinberg

Books (Technical)

• Code Quality (Addison-Wesley) by Diomidis Spinellis
• How to Break Web Software (Addison-Wesley) by M. Andrews, J. Whittaker
• Java Concurrency in Practice (Addison-Wesley) by Brian Goetz et al
• Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Chad Fowler
• Refactoring Databases (Addison-Wesley) by Scott W. Ambler and P. J. Sadalage
• Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (O’Reilly) by B. McLaughlin, G. Pollice and D. West
• Ruby Cookbook (O’Reilly) by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson
• CSS: The Missing Manual (O’Reilly) by David Sawyer McFarland

Change and Configuration Management

• AccuRev 4.5 with AccuWorkflow (Accurev)
• AnthillPro3 (Urbancode)
• Automated Build Studio (AutomatedQA)
• FLEXnet Connect (Macrovision)
• Perforce SCM (Perforce)
• Team Foundation Server (Microsoft Corporation)
• CA Wily Introscope ChangeDetector (CA / Wily Technology)

Collaboration Tools

• Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (Adobe Systems)
• Code Collaborator (Smart Bear Software)
• Confluence (Atlassian Software Systems)
• NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
• Sugar Professional (SugarCRM)
• TeamCity (JetBrains)

Database Engines and Data Tools

• Coral8 Engine (Coral8)
• dbdeploy (ThoughtWorks)
• MarkLogic Server (Mark Logic)
• SQL Anywhere (Sybase iAnywhere)
• SQL Refactor (Red Gate Software)
• Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals (Microsoft)

Design and Modeling

• Compuware OptimalJ (Compuware)
• Corticon Business Rules Modeling Studio (Corticon Technologies)
• MagicDraw UML (No Magic)
• RAVEN (Ravenflow)
• stpBA Storyboarding for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System (stpsoft ltd.)
• Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite (DataDirect Technologies)

Development Environments

• EiffelStudio Open Source Edition (Eiffel Software)
• IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
• IronPython (Microsoft)
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework (Microsoft)
• NetBeans IDE (Sun Microsystems)
• Wolfram Workbench (Wolfram Research)

Enterprise Tools

• Cape Clear ESB Platform (Cape Clear Software)
• Liferay Portal (Liferay)
• Mule (MuleSource)
• Appistry EAF (Appistry)
• Pentaho Open BI Suite (Pentaho)
• TeamCity (JetBrains)

Libraries, Frameworks and Components

• JViews (ILOG)
• NetAdvantage for .NET (Infragistics)
• telerik r.a.d.controls for WinForms (Telerik)
• .NET Framework 3.0 (Microsoft)
• Intel Threading Building Blocks (Intel)
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express, XNA Framework (Microsoft)
• The Mono Project (Novell)

Mobile Development

• AccuSPEECH (Vangard Voice Systems)
• Carbide .c++ Professional Edition (Nokia)
• Crossfire (AppForge)
• Qtopia Greenphone (Trolltech)
• NetBeans Mobility Pack 5.5 and Sun Java Wireless Tookit 2.2 (Sun Microsystems)
• Qtopia (Trolltech)

Project Mangement Tools

• 6th Sense Analytics (6th Sense Analytics)
• DevPlan (TechExcel)
• Rally Enterprise (Rally Software)
• TargetProcess (TargetProcess)
• Teamwork (Open Lab)
• V1: Agile Enterprise (VersionOne)

Security

• AppScan (Watchfire)
• beSTORM (Beyond Security)
• DevInspect (S.P.I. Dynamics)
• Fortify Defender (Fortify Software)
• Fortify Source Code Analysis (SCA) (Fortify Software)
• Metasploit Framework (Metasploit)

Automated Testing Tools

• AgitarOne (Agitar Software)
• CodePro AnalytiX (Instantiations)
• Mindreef SOAPscope (Mindreef)
• Parasoft Jtest (Parasoft)
• Parasoft SOAtest (Parasoft)
• TestComplete (AutomatedQA)

Bug and Defect Tracking Tools

• JIRA (Atlassian Software Systems)
• OnTime 2007 Hosted (Axosoft)
• Software Planner Professional (Pragmatic Software Co.)
• TestTrack Studio (Seapine Software)

Utilities

• Adobe Captivate 2 (Adobe Systems)
• AutoPatch (Tacit Knowledge)
• ElectricCommander (Electric Cloud)
• TEKchecker and StyleWriter (ClearSpecs Enterprises)
• TextMate (MacroMates)
• VMware Lab Manager (VMware)

Web Development

• Adobe Flex 2 (Adobe Systems)
• IntelliJ IDEA (JetBrains)
• Kapow Mashup Server (Kapow Technologies)
• LignUp Communications Application Server (LignUp)
• Mindreef SOAPscope Server (Mindreef)
• NetBeans Visual Web Pack (Sun Microsystems)

Web Sites/Developer Networks

• CM Crossroads (CMC Media)
• IBM developerWorks (IBM)
• Sun Developer Network (Sun Microsystems)
• Koders.com (Koders)
• Krugle (Krugle)
• Makezine.com (O’Reilly)
• The Code Project (The Code Project)