Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also taking the time to try out doing Test Driven Development. I’m pretty happy with how that’s going so far, but it’s a new process for me so it’s taking some time (though I’m happy to report i have 33 tests for 13 implemented methods!)
Future plans include (some might happen, all might never happen)
- an offline version of backpack
- a to-do list application that is driven by backpack lists
- a WPF client for doing various backpack things (reminders, journal and status updates)
- update status on multiple targets (backpack journal / status, twitter, pownce etc)
If you are interested in this at all please have a look at the code and let me know if you are interested in using it or contributing. Oh and any / all feedback is great too.
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Hi Chris
I would like to say that the Backpack API you have developed is excellent. Thank you very much for sharing.
The best part in my view is the embracing of TDD. The unit tests are essential as 37 Signals could change something at their end and at least with the unit tests you would quickly pick up on it. I do think 37 Signals would be very careful but without the unit tests you would never really know where any issue was.
I have been looking at it for about a month or so in my spare time. Although I do .NET development for a job I have never used NUnit or XML or much with above .NET 2.0 so it has been good.
I can recommend it to others and will keep working away at understand it better particularly around anythings missing for an application I am looking at developing.
Thanks, Norman
Hi Norman!
Wow, I’m not going to lie I’m a bit surprised to find out that someone is using the api I wrote! I would love hear any feedback you have!
It’s kind of fallen off my radar in terms of an active project for me as I have been struggling for time and didn’t really see much of an interest. If you are going to want to use it then I would certainly love to find out what your plans are and we could work together to finish things up?
Shoot me an email and maybe we can discuss further?
chris at jonezy.org
and thanks again Norman!