Rapidly Developing
The new version of Rhubarb is coming together nicely. You can see the latest version on greenpeace servers by following this link. It doesn't yet send mail, although the development version does....
You can login as 'Martin', password 'Testing' , we'll add a guest account at some stage. Probably once we've built something that lets us add users easily.
So far I'm enjoying the fact that since I've got access to the Fingertips SVN repository I can see how the developments been going. They've also been keeping us up to date with regular updates on their staging server. All in all things seem to be going remarkably smoothly so far.
Next week though we'll be dealing with localisation. Making things work in multiple lanaguges / character sets / encodings is the bane of the international developer. We have ideas about this, but if anyone knows of a nice, lightweight approach to internationalisation do let us know.
Comments
For this application, the problem is not making things work in different languages and alphabets, but the requirement to allow the administrators to customize all user interface elements and error messages for each appeal they set up.
Some of the user interface templates contain dynamic data like the sender name and email, a list of recipients and a link to the email confirmation page. We need to make changing these template really simple so that it's obvious what's going on.
We're currently considering Liquid for these templates.
Posted by: Thijs van der Vossen | May 12, 2006 4:57 PM
Is it just me, or do the "Martin", "Testing" login credentials not work?
Posted by: Dave Lehman | May 19, 2006 4:34 AM
You're right. They used to, must have been lost during an upgrade. Will get it fixed...
Posted by: Martin | May 19, 2006 9:55 AM