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Hobo – the ultra fast web app builder for Rails

cool tech March 1, 2010 posted by

Hobo 1.0 launches – open source ruby on rails toolkit emerges blinking from beta

Long time readers will remember that I’m a partner with the most awesome Mr Tom Locke in the Hobo project, an open source rapid web app builder for Ruby on Rails. Well, after 3 years of sterling work by the Hobo community and some very useful sponsorship from Barquin International in Washington, DC, the project has moved out of beta to Version 1.0. What’s that mean to you? Well nothing, unless you’re a web developer looking to create web applications,…


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Bookmark This! November 6, 2007 posted by

FaveBot – stop searching, start discovering

FaveBot is a persistent search engine. Enter in your search terms, select which media you wish to search (e.g. blogs, images, news etc) and it will return a constantly updating list of references to your phrase or word. It’s cool for a couple of reasons. First, it works. I’ve used it and it really does pick up some interesting results. For example I entered in the words ‘William Blake’, and blow me down if it didn’t find my mate’s upcoming production of William Blake’s…


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hobo March 15, 2007 posted by

Hobo – new release, new site, new shoes, new screencasts

For those of you following our Open Source Hobo project – the web application builder for Ruby on Rails – from this blog, stuff has happened. We’ve just done a major Hobo release, revamped the site and uploaded a couple of cool new screencasts showing how to create and customise a Hobo Rails application quickly and easily. Tom’s even burnt the midnight oil till it blackened his face to deliver a Hobo Manual, which means that it should be much…


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