What does Assembla do?
Assembla provides tools and services for building software quickly using global teams.

Is the service free?
Yes, the online service is free for individuals and small groups. We make money when we have larger groups that need premium tools, portfolios, and private servers.

500MB of SVN for free…

I have been using Subversion for project work for some time now, and it seems that most agree that it is the best Open Source solution available. I have enjoyed the use of SVN provided by clients or employers, but only recently started considering replacing my old local VSS server with a web-enabled SVN server of my own. My motivation is to get code that I own off-site and have some redundancy along with improved accessibility. I am also interested leveraging the benefits of the continual development and refinement of SVN as an Open Source project. TortoiseSVN is a good example of that.

I started by researching the requirements for installing SVN server. Installation on a local Windows host seemed doable, but I wanted to install it on my web server. Since my host doesn’t support applications, I’m on my own. I don’t even know what OS the server is running. From what I’ve read, installing SVN on a site would be a chore. Plus it would compete for space with site content. An alternative would be to pay for a specialized SVN hosting service. Hard to justify the continual overhead for that.

So I Googled for free SVN. One result stood out as promising: Assembla. They give away a 500mb SVN account with unlimited users and an integrated bug tracking setup (Trac). For the quick, small projects I am looking to use it for, I can accept the risk that Assembla flakes out as a business entity. Worst case I will still have my latest build on my local. Assembla’s business model seems pretty sound to me anyway - a successful freelance coder will eventuallly need more space if they get cosy using the free service and will become a paying customer.

Here aro some of the Assembla tools:

Subversion

Taken From: TechDune

Internet Explorer has cool add-ons which make the job of website designers and developers much easier. Here is my list of 20+ excellent Firefox add-ons that every web developer and designer should know about.

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
Variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.

IE Watch
Allows you to view and analyze HTTP/HTTPS headers, Cookies, GET queries and POST data.

IE Web Developer
Allows you to inspect and edit the live HTML DOM, evaluate expressions and display error messages, explore source code of Web page and monitor DHTML Event and HTTP Traffic.

IESpy
Allows one to inspect or manipulate the DOM of any IE Web browser control.

DebugBar
Brings new services to surfers and professionals. Surfers: zoom, direct Web search, e-mail page screenshots, and color picker. Developers: view HTML code, cookies, JavaScript, HTTP/HTTPS headers, and miscellaneous information.

Virtual Machine
Allows you to view java applets on Web pages.

Microsoft Fiddler
Logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet.

Tangram Xtml Designer
Visual designer for IE Band Object, activeX Control and .NET user control.

Http Watch
HttpWatch shows you HTTP and HTTPS traffic from within IE allowing you to quickly debug, fix and optimize your Web site.

Embedded Web Browser
The package contains all the programmer need to extend the development of a Web browser.

CGToolbar
Must have tool for CG Artists, Animators, VFX and 3d professionals.

Site Studio 6
Build rich content Web sites, with no HTML skills required.

Haptek Player
An ActiveX control and Netscape Navigator Plugin that allows any webpage or application (with ActiveX support) to include Haptek’s Autonomous characters.

Flash2X Flash Hunter
Save Flash movies from web pages.

iOpus iMacros
Check the same sites every day,data upload, online marketing and functional testing and regression testing Web sites:

Telerik RadToolBar
A flexible component for implementation of tool and button strips, needed in most web applications.

UltraEdit-32
Powerful Text, HEX, HTML, PHP and Programmer’s Editor.

Bytescout Post2Blog
Freeware powerful blog editor for WordPress, Typepad, MovableType and other blogs.

Search Monster
Free Flash Web Directory & Internet Search Engine is the Flash-remoting Web directory instant content for you Web site.

Zend Studio
Encompasses all the development components necessary for the full PHP application.

DbaBar
Integrated toolbar enabling Oracle Database Administrators to browse their databases from within Internet Explorer within minutes after installation.

Explorer Toolbar Maker
lets you create your own Explorer bar from any HTML page, picture, Macromedia Flash file, or Microsoft Office document.

Let’s say you want to change the color of your links on just your contact page to red. They are blue on every other page, but it just makes sense for them to be red on your contact page (for some reason). There are a couple ways you could go about this.

• You could declare a separate stylesheet for your contact page.
  This isn’t ideal, because it’s redundant. If you make any other changes, you’ll always have to make them both on the main stylesheet and the contact page stylesheet.
    
• You could give all those links a unique class on that page.
  This isn’t ideal, because it isn’t very semantic and it’s also redundant. Why apply a class to every single link on the page when they really aren’t any different from links elsewhere on the site, contextually speaking?
    
• The best solution is to give your the body a unique ID.
  This solves the problem perfectly. You can use the same stylesheet and target just the links you want to with a single CSS selector.
    

Simple, literally just apply the ID to the body tag:

   ...
</head>

<body id="contact-page">
   ...

Now for our example of making all links on the contact page red instead of blue, just use some CSS like this:

a {
color: blue;
}

#contact-page a {
   color: red;
}