I’ve been working on updating Basecamp Mobile to try and solve the login issues some users have reported.

• basecamp.helicoid.net is now running on a faster server
• I’ve updated legacy code and moved it to Rails 2
• The public code repository has been updated: http://code.helicoid.net/svn/applications/bcm/

Many thanks to “ash” for his helpful suggestions.

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I’ve just added Basecamp Mobile to our public subversion repository. Since this is a fun side project for me, you may notice the current release is a little bit rough, eccentric, super-ninja-alpha, or in that space between being usable and needing a lot of work.

You can download it or browse the subversion repository, and then install it on your own server.

Read the README, and give me some pointers if you’re into ruby, rails or xhtml mp. Thanks, and enjoy Basecamp Mobile!

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If you like our Basecamp Mobile system, then you’ll be pleased to know that I’ve been doing a lot of work on this recently.

If you’re looking forward to running this on your own server, you’ll be able to soon. This is a side project for me, so it gets bumped out the way for other paying projects, but I promise I’m working hard on it!

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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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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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