The Building of Basecamp: A 1-day workshop on the building of a real-world web-based application: Joe and I are heading to Chicago to attend this workshop next week. We’ll report on it after the fact and tell you how it went.
Immerse yourself in the hectic process of concepting, designing, developing, marketing, supporting, and maintaining a web-app used by thousands of people worldwide. […]
We’ll take you behind the scenes of the development of Basecamp, our popular web-based project management tool.
Sunrise: 37signals' CRM tool for small business is coming soon: A couple of weeks ago, 37 Signals announced their new CRM tool. Sunrise is a CRM-ish tool for small businesses. We're aiming to change the small business CRM market with Sunrise in the same way we changed the small…
Ruby Book Sales Surpass Python: I always thought that a good way to gauge adoption of a language is by the amount of space its books occupy at the local Barnes and Noble. This is sort of the same thing. While I was looking at the data, though, I…
When Deane and I were in Chicago this weekend, I bought a disposable camera, just so I wouldn't keep commenting that I should have brought a camera with me. Just before we left, I'd read about PTAssembler, which is one of several frontends for the open-source panotools suite of command-line…
I read this book on the plane to and from Chicago. Eric Meyer is apparently a CSS God, although I hadn't heard about him before this book came out. (Update: See the comments — turns out I had heard of him...) In the end, the book wasn't for me. If…
Rails: So what was the biggest shock of the Basecamp seminar? Finding out that it was written in Ruby. Yeah, that's right — that Japanese language that you thought no one was using. They've apparently put together a Web development framework for it which they're releasing to…
I'm writing this from the second floor of the Apple store on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago. We spent the day with the guys from 37 Signals at The Building of Basecamp Workshop. I'm on a little iMac, and I have to admit it's impressive...the store, I mean. Everything…
Basecamp: Web-based Project Management...: I got a private invite to this, and I signed up for the free, single-project package. It seems solid. The interface is very clean and intuitive. Basecamp is a simple, hosted web-based service that lets you manage projects and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets…
Basecamp: Web-based Project Management, Client Extranet, Project Site System: 39signals has finally released their online project management system. This has been in the works for years, it seems. Basecamp is a simple, hosted web-based service that lets designers manage projects and quickly create client/project extranets. It lets you and your…