We’d like to say thanks to 37signals for linking to us in The first business built around Basecamp. We’re currently working on an application that provides a mobile-friendly version of Basecamp. The application is of course written using Ruby on Rails, and will be released as open source so you can install it on your server (or your systems administrator can).

There’s still a lot of work to be done, but building it has been great fun, and we can’t wait to share it!

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We’re putting the finishing touches to Bugtagger, our bug reporting software. There’s still some way to go, but we’re already using it to track bugs in our own projects, so there’s not long to go now!

Who is it for?

Bugtagger is aimed at developers who want to allow customers to report issues and bugs.

There are several ways to integrate your projects with Bugtagger.

Project integration

You can integrate Bugtagger into your applications through the Bugtagger API, or Bugtagger’s bug reporting form. Each project you add to Bugtagger can have a form, and it gives you a unique and easy to remember URL for each one.

The form looks like this:

As you can see, there is a dynamic slider and tag entry field. These are designed to help your clients feel less constrained with technical details and able to accurately express what the problem they’ve found is.

The Technical notes field contains text generated by our JavaScript API …

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I’ve been playing with Basecamp Mobile for about a week now, so I think it’s ready for people to play with:

http://basecamp.helicoid.net

It provides a basic interface to your Basecamp account, suitable for mobile phones.  It uses the XHTML Mobile Profile (for more on this, see my post, What is the XHTML Mobile Profile?)

Of course, it provides limited access to your account.  However, it’s built as a Rails application, and I’ll release the source code within a few weeks. This will allow you, or perhaps a colleague with the right skills, to install (and extend) it on your own server.  Before releasing it, a few friends are helping me improve it to make it suitable for public release.

Why did I build this? I thought being able to use Basecamp with my phone would be handy when I’m away from the office. I also wanted some experience working with the Basecamp API. ...

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