Over the last month we’ve being busy setting up the basics for CFLabs, and are nearly ready to launch our call for proposals, and then get building some hopefully useful consumer tools.

For people interested in what’s needed to set up a micro in-house startup like CFLabs, below is a list of the technology we’ve used to get things going. This has been about getting the things we need (hosting, version control, project management etc) up and running quickly and reliably, mostly using 3rd party services, so we have less administration to worry about and can get on with the business of building things instead.

So, we have a basic hosting account with Slice Host running Ubuntu that should be able to handle anything we build in our first few months, as well as an in house development server for testing and developing. And we are working on a customised version of Capistrano for deploying code to our servers.

For version control we are using Wush.net so we don’t have to worry about running our own source code server. And for project management we are using the fantastic Basecamp.

This website was put together quickly using WordPress, an open source blogging tool, and the TDO Mini Forms plugin for the Your Ideas section (thanks to Phil Gyford for the suggestion).

Please let us know if we’ve missed any tricks here. What else should be have in place for rapid development?