We are excited to announce an architectural release of Deme (0.7 Skeletal) written in the web framework Ruby on Rails. The free, open source software is released under the Affero GPL and is available to view / download on our Trac page. Our documentation is also online.
Please bear in mind that this is an architectural release of Deme, with limited functionality. Check back often, as new features will be added regularly as they are developed.
If you are going to RailsConf 2007 in Portland, Oregon, come to our BoF session on Friday evening, May 18, 9:30-10:30 pm at the Oregon Convention Center (rooms c123-c124). We’ll demo the new, Ruby on Rails version of Deme there.
Greetings, Deme loyalists. We’ve been hard at work on a brand new implementation of Deme in Ruby on Rails. The rewrite began last summer and we plan to show off what we have to people at RailsConf in Portland May 18-20. As before, the code will be free/open. Stay tuned.
We’ve been a bit delayed in getting the new AJAX version of Deme (v0.6) ready for release. The plan is to have it ready very soon, though, so stay tuned!
The slides from our presentation at CodeCon 2006 are now available on Todd Davies’ website.
The new version of Deme will be demonstrated on Sunday, Feb. 12, at CodeCon 2006 at StudioZ in san francisco. We will post the new code online beforehand so that conference participants can access it. In the past, CodeCon audio streams and an IRC channel have been set up for use during the conference - watch the conference homepage for more info.
A video of Todd Davies’ recent People, Computers, and Design seminar presentation, “Designing for Deliberation”, is available here. The slides are also available on Todd’s website.
While you’re waiting for the new version of Deme, Ben Newman (Deme Team developer) has written a course paper detailing how he’s solved a vexing problem for programming the new version’s interface: the “hidden fields” limitation in JavaScript’s inheritance scheme. His library-based approach, building on Prototype, is described here [pdf file].
We’ve been hard at work on a new version of Deme, with an AJAX’d-up user interface that should make Deme more user-friendly. We’ll announce here, on our email list, and on Freshmeat, Sourceforge etc. when it’s available.
Deme version 0.5.0 has been released. It features full email integration, various user interface tweaks, and some bug fixes. You can try it out by visiting any of the groups hosted here (on Groupspace.org). Click on the “Groups” tab for links to publicly available groups that require no login. You can download Deme 0.5.0 by visiting the Download page or directly downloading it from here.