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]

Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 Leopard

Riding Rails: Ruby on Rails will ship with OS X 10.5 Leopard :

"It s finally official: Ruby on Rails will ship with the next version of OS X"

This is great news - while RoR allows for incredibly fast development (I just put up a user blog webapp in 35 minutes!) the setup process is a bit of a hassle for the uninitiated (if you're up for the challenge, hit up hivelogic's tutorial).