Mumboe is now on GitHub

During development of the Mumboe Contract Management product we have created and modified several open source Ruby gems and Rails plug-ins. While that code has been on GitHub, it has been managed under individual developer’s private accounts. We have now consolidated development under a single Mumboe account for all of our open source projects. The Mumboe GitHub user currently hosts our forks of:

• aasm Fork of the acts_as_state_machine (AASM) gem. The fork adds support for logging state changes in a DRY way.
• amatch Fork of the Approximate string matching gem. This fork incorporates Michal Granger’s Ruby 1.9 patch
• has_easy Easy access and creation of “has many” relationships for ActiveRecord models. Forked to fix some bugs around validation errors.
• param_protected A Rails plug-in that provides param_protected and param_accessible methods on controllers. This fork allows the use of a Proc for generating the action list in include/exclude from protection.
• soap4r Modified soap4r library to run on Ruby 1.9

Add comment June 24th, 2009 Author: ScottD

Customer Contact Notes are an Excellent Resource

Small companies like us can’t perform a lot of usability studies or afford focus groups; we just don’t have the resources. So, we’re constantly asking ourselves, “How are we going to get in better touch with what our customers are doing and what they need to better manage their contracts?”

Among those with answers are our Business Development and Support folks. Turns out, they take pretty good notes when they talk with customers, both current and prospect. They readily shared the info they have, in the name of improving the user experience.

We’ve recently spent some time reading that info. It has immediately begun to refine our understanding of what’s important to our customers. We’re always looking to narrow the gap between the real world of working with contracts and what our perception of that is, and this is an excellent, resource-affordable way to do that.

Add comment June 12th, 2009 Author: wmeurer