Wait! is it 2009?

Wow, Hoth has been entirely too quiet. We don't even have a New Year post! I'll take the blame for that if it will get us off the hook. Now, on to business...

2008 was busy year. We grew from a handful of employees into a full-time web application shipping yard, starting satellite offices in Huntsville, Alabama and Montevideo, Uruguay. We have continued the development of our flagship application, Lighthouse, lined up a steady base of client work, and started development on our new product, Tender. During this time we managed to maintain our other passion, developing open source software.

Recently on ENTP...

• We're inching closer to the official launch of our latest product, Tender. *coughVERYSOONcough*
• Trevor Squires publicly released Propane an OSX chat client for Campfire users (which rocks some serious socks off). Congrats Trevor!
• We have a Rails training event coming up in Atlanta. details coming soon.
• Jeremy McAnally was awarded as "Ruby’s Top Hitter in 2008" by Ruby Inside.
• Giles Bowkett was awarded the "Top Ruby Presenter of 2008" by Ruby Inside.

Season 1 summed up

A quick recap of 2008's open source work

March 2008

• Justin Palmer releases GitNub, a Gitk-like application written in RubyCocoa that looks like it belongs on a Mac.

April 2008

• ENTP and Engine Yard take Lighthouse to a new level, adding free Open Source projects to developers.

June 2008

• Rick Olson and Justin Palmer release their Warehouse code on GitHub, a Git/Subversion browser and changeset viewer, under an Open Source license.
• Trevor Squires releases ack-tmbundle, the "Ack in Project" TextMate bundle.

July 2008

• Rick Olson and Kyle Neath begin working on Calendar About Nothing. Check it out at http://calendaraboutnothing.com.
• Nicolás Sanguinetti releases integrity, the easy and fun Continuous Integration server.
• Evan Henshaw-Plath releases icalico, a social calendaring web app for conferences.

September 2008

• Courtenay Gasking releases splam, a plugin which attempts to detect spam in comments and posts.
• Kyle Neath releases select-autocompleter, a MooTools plugin to create editable select tags.
• Giles Bowkett releases Towlie to keep your code DRY. Read about it HERE.

October 2008

• Rick Olson releases astrotrain, a Merb app that forwards email from maildirs or postfix to HTTP posts.
• Jeremy McAnally releases context, a super tight library to add contexts to tests.
• Jeremy McAnally releases matchy, RSpec-esque matchers for Test::Unit.
• Matt Lyon releases datagrammer, which manages sending and receiving UDP packets.
• Kyle Neath releases timeframe-mootools, a click-draggable/range-makeable, better calendar in MooTools.
• Courtenay Gasking releases acts_like_git, a Rails plugin that uses git to version ActiveRecord fields, like acts_as_versioned, but a git.

November 2008

• Courtenay Gasking releases css_file_sanitize, which allows your Ruby web app to take custom CSS and reject anything that smells bad.
• ENTP releases XTT, a time tracker application. Think private 'twitter' that counts the duration of status messages.
• Daniel Cadenas releases rspec2rr, a Ruby script that helps you ease the migration process from rspec dobules ro rr trying to reduce your manual work
• Will Duncan, our user support guru, turns 25.

December 2008

• ENTP releases tender_multipass, a rails plugin for creating special cookies to setup automatic logins with Tender.
• Nicolás Sanguinetti releases storyteller, minimalist user stories for test/unit.
• Jeremy McAnally gets super famous when rg is added into Rails core. Read about it on his BLOG.
• Giles Bowkett launches Boing Boing Minus Disneyland, a profanity filter where "Disneyland" is the only curse word. Read about it HERE.

Hot off the press for 2009!

• Jeremy McAnally releases krauter, a new router for Rails. Tiny (200 lines fool!), quick (adding routes so fast it hurts and competes...
• Jeremy McAnally releases perwikity, an elegant wiki system for anyone who respects their grandmother.
• Rick Olson releases Is LOST on yet because he REALLY needs to know. Code on GitHub.