There’s a new plugin that you can find more info about here. It hopefully fulfils all your url naming needs, it filled ours! We are planning on soon having a public SVN repository which should hold some interesting things.

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We’ve been working hard testing the API, making sure it’s secure and provides the features people have requested.

Take a look at what we’ve been doing!

Of course, functional testing is only one part of the testing we do. We’re also testing it with different programming languages to make sure it’s as easy to use as possible. We’ll feed this into our documentation soon, so expect to see PHP, Java and other examples to be included when we launch it.

Our forum is also running. It’s at forums.helicoid.net. You can use this to discuss our software, and get tips and support. Sign up now!

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Whilst Gabriel’s been writing plugins for Rails, I’ve been writing JavaScript for one of our new projects.

Want to see it? If you can guess the nature of the application based on this:

we’ll let you in on the alpha version. The screenshot contains some JavaScript that helps us detect things about the user’s browser. Detecting the browser type, version, screen resolution, css rendering mode, and other technical factors are part of the project.

Post a comment describing what you think the project does!

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Tiktrac has been updated. We’ve added:

• The API, so developers can extract data and integrate Tiktrac with other applications
• A cleaner sheet page, allowing you to edit the sheet without leaving the page
• A search box on most pages, to help you find tasks easily
• A sheet list that appears on the sheet page, to allow you to navigate between your sheets more easily
• A cleaner login page
• A new reports type, that gives you a general overview of all your tasks and sheets when you visit the reports section

Let us know what you think!

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Here’s a sneak preview from in-house enigma extraordinaire Alex:Here’s another from myself, your favourite Gabriel:

Neat stuff will be done soon now! Promise!

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I’ve got some friends using Box.net, so we can exchange files. I’ve found a lot of my friends get confused about FTP, and IM file sharing often gets screwed up by firewalls. This can be a real pain when you’re trying to work on something together over a large distance, especially when you’re swapping binary files like images or audio rather than text.

I logged in earlier and noticed:

True to their promise, they automatically upgraded my account based on my referrer count!

Box.net does everything you’d expect. There’s an API, and they’re developing an OS-specific sync/disk application. There’s also a mobile version:

All these things are made more straightforward by the fact they use an API. That’s why I love APIs, and that’s why we made the Helicoid slogan ‘agile apps with APIs’.

Read more about the mobile version of Box.net.

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This is a small example of what you can do with the Tiktrac API. We’ve created a script that we use with our subversion scripts for checking source code into our repositories.

Whenever we edit code on our projects, we can easily log the time we spent at the same time using a slightly modified version of this script. Download it and hack it to your delight.

Download: tiktrac.zip

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We love APIs, and since 37signals announced the Basecamp API, I’ve been playing with a mobile version of Basecamp.

The code is currently a single ruby file, that uses their ruby wrapper for the API. If you’re interested, it uses CGI and erb, so it should be fairly easy to install if your hosting provider supports CGI and ruby.

When it’s ready, we’ll release it on code.helicoid.net.

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