Every now and then it’s good to review your development environment. I’ve been thinking about updating mine for the last couple of month. I’m extremely happy with vim so it’s safe.

My main interest was in a new version control system. A friend recommended Subversion and after reading Practical Subversion I decided to switch to it. I thought I might stop at that until I saw the OmniTI Labs website a few weeks ago. I had heard of Trac before but this was the first time I’d paid any real attention to it.

Trac allows you to build a complete website for your project with a wiki, ticket system and code repository (using subversion). With all three components combined the result is actually more than the sum of the parts. You can view a time line showing changes in all three components, search across all three components and generate a road map based on tickets.

I’m off to build my own labs site