Very very very cool!!! Been playing with it for about an hour now and am thoroughly impressed.
Brett On Nov 2, 1:30 pm, kevinpfromnm <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool, though I'm not seeing the widgets here on either firefox 3.0 or > opera 9. Firefox 3.5.2 in wine is working. > > On Nov 2, 11:14 am, Tom Locke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > OK folks - there's some news for you today. > > > Right back at the start, in 2006 when we first released Hobo, quite a > > few people suggested we should create a graphical tool to kick off a > > Hobo app. The fact that you get a real working app just from your > > model declarations made people think how easy it would be to put a > > nice GU in front of that, and you've got yourself a web-app creator. > > But we never did it. Because we wanted to do it right. > > > Replacing the model and controller generators with a GUI is basically > > a gimmick that doesn't really change a thing. If we're going to build > > a graphical tool -- and I wanted to from day one -- we should build > > one that's powerful enough to get you all the way to a finished app. > > > So, three years later, that's what we've done. Bambuu is a hosted > > service that runs in the browser, and today we're quietly announcing > > the private beta to the great crowd that follow this group. > > > So what is it? Basically Hobo/Rails development in the cloud (every > > user gets their own personal cloud server for their dev work), except, > > um, without the programming. I suppose that's a bit like saying > > "fishing without the water", or something : ) The other way to > > describe it is that it's a graphical website builder, of which there > > are many, but not like this one. > > > I guess you're just going to have to try it! Well, 20 of you are : ) > > We're letting the first users in really slowly because it's very early > > days. We'll be inviting more in all the time so hopefully those that > > miss this first invite won't have to wait long. And the blog is up > > now, so please subscribe! > > > There's so much to talk about that I find myself a bit lost for words. > > I think I'll pick it up on the Bambuu blog. > > > Oh and seeing as you guys are the open-source crowd, I'll mention that > > although Bambuu is a commercial service, there is some very exciting > > new technology under the hood, in addition to Hobo itself, which will > > eventually become open source. You're going to like it : ) > > > We really, really want to get your reactions and keep in touch with > > you all, so please follow and comment on the blog, and give your > > feedback at help.bambuu.net/discussions. > > > OK, so without further ado (drumroll....), the first twenty to get > > enter this token > > > thehobos > > > athttp://bambuu.net, will get themseles a free beta account. > > > Be warned things are still very rough around the edges, to the exent > > that you might even find some lorem ipsum here and there : ), and > > publishing apps (i.e. deploying them into production) is not quite > > ready. > > > Wahooo! > > > Tom --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hobo Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hobousers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
