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Since we were tired of the ugliness and size of TinyMCE — our previous WYSIWYG solution —, we decided to see if we could find a good replacement.
Luckily 37signals released a WYSIWYG editor last year called WysiHat, the “eventually better open source WYSIWYG editor”, so we tried it out. It was simple, no fancy themes or color schemes, just the backend code.
After playing with it for a while, we found a lot of hidden and undocumented features like including images or adding unordered lists. We decided to fork the project to write some more examples.
WysiHat is a great project and has a lot of potential, but probably hasn’t got the attention it deserves for a while now. There are some missing features you’d expect from a WYSIWYG editor, but the general idea is very, very good.
Joshua Peek told us the project is on hold; “We’re planning to revisit the wysiwyg stuff in early 2010. So you can expect me to jump back in then.”, but we hope there will be more activity from the rest of the community before that.
We built the standard stuff like image uploading and html editing using WysiHat for a project we’re working on and we thought others could use it so we built the “WysiHat Rails Engine” and released it to the world.
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We searched and found two excellent Rails programmers (Robert & Jeff) to join our team. Although we’re always open to meeting interesting people, we’re no longer actively searching for new talent.
Dear recruitment companies, you may stop calling us to offer your services (which are undoubtly worth 25% of an annual salary…). No, seriously. Stop.
Next Tuesday, June 30, it’s time for Kings of Code again. Of course we will be attending, since there will be great speakers.
The Monday before, June 29, there are a bunch of side-events. We will be attending the Amsterdam.rb Ruby BarCamp, taking place at Escape (Rembrandtplein) from 12.30pm to 6pm. There’s no admission, also if you’re not attending the conference, but you do need to register.
Since we know listening to all this cool Ruby chatter will make your thirsty, we’re the official Amsterdam.rb BarCamp drinks sponsor. The venue is sponsored by
Rock & Code & Wes Oldenbeuving (thanks guys).
We’re looking for one or two great Ruby/Rails programmers on short notice. Please send us an e-mail if you love to write clean specced code and know how to get things done!