Posted by Owen | August 15, 2011
One Response
Kevin has been making steady progress converting the MS Word version of the book into Lyx and making changes from Suzannah’s edits.
We hope that using the LyX layouts and using a public Github repo will make it easier to manage edits and updates, and provide a better framework for you to contribute and “roll-your-own” version of the book.
If you would like to follow along, the Github repo can be found at:
https://github.com/BI/rapid-rails-3-with-hobo
Cheers,
Owen
Posted by Owen | February 4, 2011
No Responses
We just stood up in production a centralized portal for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). The new portal will provide a common authentication and authorization portal for all major reporting applications for NIFA. The Portal was created using Hobo and other open-source tools.
You can read more about the NIFA Reporting Portal and the Leadership Management Dashboard (LMD) here:
http://agile-business-intelligence.com/2011/01/22/new-nifa-reporting-portal-goes-live/
We are now beginning the process of converting to Hobo 1.3 for Rails 3. Bryan is taking the lead on that.
Thanks much to Tom Locke, Father of Hobo, and all the other key contributors to growth of Hobo in the last two years, including Bryan Larsen, Domizio Demichellis, and Matt Jones.
Those that contributed to the NIFA Portal and LMD 4.0 Hobo coding include Tom Locke, Bryan Larsen, Marcelo Giorgi, Gustav Paul, Angus Miller, Venka Ashtakala, and Jack Compton. See my full blog (link above) for a listing of the entire team effort.
BTW, if you are interested in Agriculture research data and trends–apply for an account. You will have access to any public data in the system.
Cheers!
-Owen
Posted by Owen | January 5, 2011
5 Responses
This is just a quick post to wish all of you in the Hobo community the best for 2011.
We are soon approaching the release of Hobo 1.3 for Rails 3 (now at pre-release #25 and hope to have a draft of the PDF book “Rapid Rails 3 with Hobo” completed by the end of January. Thanks much to Domizio for all his hard work on 1.3 and his helpful documentation and edits to the 1.0 versions of “Rapid Rails with Hobo” and “Hobo at Work”, which Venka has incorporated up through Chapter 4 of the new version.
I hope that Hobo, Rails, and Ruby have made your app building more productive and fun.
Cheers!
-Owen
