I'm often inspired by the 37signals crew. For those that aren't familiar
with the company, they are the creators of Ruby on Rails as well as their online
service offerings that in my opinion are best-in-class in each of their
respective domains ( Backpack, Basecamp, Highrise ).
Recently they posted a feature implementation in their Backpack product that started with an internal application named In/Out. The announcement was made in a blog post that links to the original show-case of the internal in/out application. Faced with the challenge of managing developers local and remote, I thought the concept of in/out might be something that I could implement with my team.
I have just recently convinced my organization to give 37 Signals Campfire product a trial and I know I would be pushing it if I went maverick and put my whole team on Backpack. I decided to create a in/out clone in ASP.NET MVC and post the code on codeplex, Microsoft's open-source project site.
Recently they posted a feature implementation in their Backpack product that started with an internal application named In/Out. The announcement was made in a blog post that links to the original show-case of the internal in/out application. Faced with the challenge of managing developers local and remote, I thought the concept of in/out might be something that I could implement with my team.
I have just recently convinced my organization to give 37 Signals Campfire product a trial and I know I would be pushing it if I went maverick and put my whole team on Backpack. I decided to create a in/out clone in ASP.NET MVC and post the code on codeplex, Microsoft's open-source project site.
In/Out .NET currently allows multiple teams to use the application
and keep seperation between teams (unless the user is a member of both teams).
Users can set a status and post updates, just like the original.
Posts can be edited inline and deleted. Users can set if they are
in or out seperate from their status statement and also set if they are working
remotely or from the office. Their contact information (available in each
user's profile) is set to the appropriate number depending on what their in/out
status is set to (in, out, office, remote).
I'm currently working on adding a quote feature that would allow
users to submit quotes for admin approval and a random quote will appear on the
page.
The site currently is not AJAX enabled, but it soon will be. Take
a look and let me know what you think.
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