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Until next year…
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Tom | December 30, 2006 comments No Responses

So I’m off with the family for a couple of days with friends in the West Country. My understanding is that these particular friends have NO INTERNET CONNECTION. He’s an artist — go figure. So I’ll be off-line for the rest of the year :-).

Happy New Year to you all! If the few days since the launch of Hobo are anything to go by, 2007 should be an exciting year.

Wot no Tests?
Posted by
Tom | December 28, 2006 comments 8 Responses

Just looking through my referers and found this post. Quote:

I’ll start writing some tests for it when I get back (looks like it’s in need of some)

*Blush* :-) Actually I have 128 tests with 298 assertions (which is better than nothing but not nearly enough for something on the scale of Hobo). But they’re sitting in the app that gave birth to Hobo. It wasn’t until recently that I discovered how to set up a full Rails testing environment within a plugin. To be honest the app and tests are kind of a mess. I really want to extract the tests into the plugin test directory, and clean everything up a bit in the process.

Meanwhile if anyone really wants access to the tests you might be able to twist my arm :-)

Customising a Page
Posted by
Tom | December 28, 2006 comments 4 Responses

I owe you a screencast on customising the whole UI of the POD demo, but strictly speaking I’m on holiday at the moment :-) I’m just stealing a few moments on the laptop here and there to check the site stats and respond to any comments.

So to keep you going, I thought I’d better rattle off a few quick tips on customising a page, seeing as it’s a total mystery at the moment. We’ll customise the view of a category page in the POD demo.

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To-Do List Demo
Posted by
Tom | December 27, 2006 comments 19 Responses

I’ve posted another demo — this one is a simple to-do list app (see the Demos section). The app took about 10 - 15 minutes to create, which includes figuring out the (minimal!) design.

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