Basecamp Launches (Signal vs. Noise)
37signals Mailing List Subscribe to our free newsletter and receive updates on 37signals' latest projects, research, announcements, and more (about one email per month). 05 Feb 2004 by Jason Fried Basecamp has launched!. Check out the site for a tour of the app w/ screenshots, example uses, and training info (including free Chicago workshops). And it’s free for 1 project plus a 30 day free trial f
The Majestic Monolith
Monolith by Rene Aigner Some patterns are just about the code. If your code looks like this, and you need it to do that, here’s what to do. You’d do well to study such patterns, as they give you a deep repertoire of solutions ready to apply and make your code better every time you hit their context. Then there are other patterns that are less about the code and more about how the code is being wri
Launch: Basecamp 3
So today’s the day we finally get to unveil Basecamp 3! Nearly 2 years in the making, Basecamp 3 is the most ambitious product we’ve ever built. There’s so much new and hugely improved stuff! Radically more powerful than any Basecamp before it, it still maintains – and expands on – the straightforwardness and ease-of-use that people around the world have come to know, trust, and love about Basecam
Hybrid sweet spot: Native navigation, web content
When we launched the iPhone version of Basecamp in February of last year, it was after many rounds of experimentation on the architectural direction. The default route suggested by most when we got started back in early/mid-2012 was simple enough: Everything Be Native! This was a sensible recommendation, given the experiences people had in years prior with anything else. Facebook famously folded t
Signal v. Noise is closed. | SvN
Signal v. Noise is closed. It’s been a wonderful run, but we decided it was time to do something different. With the launch of HEY World, everyone at Basecamp who was writing for SvN now has their own blog. Of course, we’ll keep the lights on here until the end of the internet. Enjoy exploring a decade plus of SvN: Where you can follow us now: Jason Fried is on HEY World and Twitter. DHH is on HEY
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Beyond the default Rails environments
Rails ships with a default configuration for the three most common environments that all applications need: test, development, and production. That’s a great start, and for smaller apps, probably enough too. But for Basecamp, we have another three: Beta: For testing feature branches on real production data. We often run feature branches on one of our five beta servers for weeks at the time to eval
Drawing the native/web line in Basecamp for iPhone
Some of my favorite feedback on Basecamp for iPhone has been that the app feels wicked fast, and all native. The app actually is a mix of web and native UI, but it’s difficult to see where the line is drawn. The majority of the content shown in the app is web: From the login screen, to posting a message, and even uploading photos on a comment, that’s all done using UIWebView. Chrome inspired us th
Learning Rails made me a better designer
At 37signals, our designers write code. Not just HTML and CSS — Ruby and JavaScript too. We can all get reasonably far implementing an idea before calling in a programmer for help. I was lucky to get a crash course in Rails when production for the new Basecamp was kicking into high gear. But even after a year in the trenches, I wasn’t confident I was Doing It Right™. So last fall I took the Rails
Why I loved building Basecamp for iPhone in RubyMotion
It’s been over 8 months since our workplace experiment last July, when I got an entire month to buckle down and make an iPhone app. Last Friday, Basecamp landed in the App store. It’s been a long journey of simulator runs, device testing, and app crashes, but I’m convinced that I wouldn’t have been able to ship an iPhone app at all without RubyMotion. I’ve tried to jump into mobile development a f
Put chubby models on a diet with concerns
Different models in your Rails application will often share a set of cross-cutting concerns. In Basecamp, we have almost forty such concerns with names like Trashable, Searchable, Visible, Movable, Taggable. These concerns encapsulate both data access and domain logic about a certain slice of responsibility. Here’s a simplified version of the taggable concern: module Taggable extend ActiveSupport:
All hands, battlestations!
Perhaps it’s my inner engineer, but seeing behind the scenes of workshops, be they real or digital, always fascinates me. Maybe that’s why How it’s Made is so compelling. The show proves that there’s more than just the end product: the workspace and the process that surround the product that turn out to be just as interesting than what was produced. A recent discussion internally about using stand
Three quick Rails console tips
I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The following console samples were taken with Basecamp Next on Rails version 3.2.3. Dive into your app Running the app method in rails console gives you an integration se
Launch: The all new Basecamp
After a ton of very hard work, and lots of debates and decisions, we’re thrilled to be able to share the all new Basecamp with you. This has been a company-wide effort. Every designer, every programmer, every sys admin, and every support team member were involved in building this product. It’s completely new. Reimagined, rethought, and redesigned from the ground up. Everything was reconsidered. Ev
Basecamp Next: UI preview
When we started thinking about the design of the all new Basecamp, we had three key things in mind: Speed Big picture Focus With that in mind, and many experiments later, we came up with a unique interface that is crazy fast, excellent for big picture broad overviews, and perfectly tailored for quick focus with no distractions. We call it page stacking and we think you’re going to love it. Here’s
How Basecamp Next got to be so damn fast without using much client-side UI
When we started working on Basecamp Next last year, we had much internal debate about whether we should evolve the existing code base or rewrite it. I’ll dive more into that debate further in a later post, but one of the key arguments for a rewrite was that we wanted a dramatic leap forward in speed — one that wouldn’t be possible through mere evolution. Speed is one of those core competitive adva
Let's get honest about uptime
Ma Bell engineered their phone system to have 99.999% reliability. Just 5 minutes of downtime per year. We’re pretty far off that for most internet services. Sometimes that’s acceptable. Twitter was fail whaling for months on end and that hardly seem to put a dent in their growth. But if Gmail is down for even 5 minutes, I start getting sweaty palms. The same is true for many customers of our appl
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