BackPackIT BackOffIT! ClockingIT isIT!

What?

ClockinIT: A free, beautiful, open source project management website.



"ClockingIT was created for fun, not profit, using Ruby on Rails"



While 37signal's Backpackit has had a bit of monopoly on the ajaxian project management frontier, ClockingIT recently sprung up from two dedicated Norwegian developers, and the community seems to be building strong.

ClockingIT specs: built leveraging a ton of open source goodies, including Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Juggernaut (cometing), and more.

Why?

Three main points for ClockingIT over Backpackit:

• It's Free
• It's Open source
• It's Up and running in 2 minutes
  

How?

Go to ClockingIT.com and signup.

For developers who want to contribute, get the source with darcs (howto) or with git (repository: git://repo.clockingit.com/cit).

[git installation instructions on OS X 10.5]

Drag n' Drop = Cut n' Paste

Here's a quick update on one of my current projects, the unnamed "online desktop" (name suggestions, anyone?).

Some new browser event handling hacks along with some css and innerHTML fiddling allows you to drag and drop a video from your resources into your text editor.

The visual cues are still rough, but the concept is there - "principle at work."

Release is due in late December. Hit me up if you want a trail at that time.