Posted by Tom | July 28, 2008
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Oops I did it again. Stopped blogging that is. Hands up who thought this blog had died?
Of course those who wanted to know if the Hobo project itself was still active, if they knew where to look, would have headed over here and would have found things to be very much alive. That’s all very well but I really must start blogging more!
OK where were we? About the time of the last post I was just about to head off to Railsconf with some very interesting news. As often happens in life, and even more often with anything related to software development, things didn’t quite pan out the way we expected. I do have news though, oh yes, even better news than I had before in fact.
At Railsconf we announced our plan to form the Hobo Foundation, a non-profit organisation to act as a conduit for companies that want to help Hobo succeed, and a way for developers to put some serious time into the project while still paying the rent. The driving force behind the idea was a company over in Washington D.C., Barquin International, who were to be the initial sponsor. The more we talked to Barquin, the more apparent it became that these guys really wanted to take Hobo seriously. They’re using Hobo in some very critical projects, the first of which rolls-out next month. To cut a long story short, we’ve arrived at a perfect solution which gets Hobo very much on track, and gives Barquin a close link with the on-going development: they’ve contracted me to work on Hobo full-time! The Hobo Foundation lives on in spirit, but for now this is by far the best arrangement for everyone.
That’s right folks, progress is about to take a big leap forwards. You know what this means don’t you? It means all those warm and fuzzy things like a solid test suite, lots of documentation, continuing to separate out all the major sub-components like DRYML into their own projects. Good things are coming!
I want to say a big thank-you to the folk at Barquin for supporting open-source and creating this great opportunity for the Hobo project. Barquin does a lot of work for the US Federal Government, and to be honest, this is the very last place I would have looked for a company willing to stick their neck out for some exciting new technology. It turns out Barquin are not your average government contractor. They’re firm believers in client-centred agile practices, and that approach recently won them (shameless sponsor plug!) the “Small Business Contractor of the Year Award” from the US Department of Agriculture.
Here’s looking forward to really getting stuck in and making Hobo as good as it can be. Maybe I’ll even find time to blog more :-)
(p.s. In fact I’ve got a whole load more to tell everyone about, so do expect more posts over the next few days.)
Posted by Tom | April 12, 2008
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While chatting in the hobo IRC channel yesterday, I realised that I should probably do a blog post on the state of the documentation. We’re far from done here. I don’t want anyone to get the false impression that you’re expected to figure out how to use Hobo from the tutorials and guides that we’ve posted already.
Posted by Tom | April 7, 2008
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And finally… Here it is. The site has been restructured with a new front page that does a much better job of communicating what we’re all about. And there’s much more besides…
Posted by Tom | March 31, 2008
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So here I am at the Ruby Fools conference in Copenhagen, and I did say we were going to try and have some new stuff ready by now. We’re nearly there. Stay tuned over the next few days.
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