UW Events updated to version 2.0
It certainly isn’t perfect but it is pretty cool. Our big Ruby on Rails app, UW Events version 2.0 is now running in production with only a couple hiccups this morning. This long awaited update has:
- upcoming.org integration
- Facebook integration
- email and SMS reminders
- personal events – things that don’t need to be approved and appear in your own ical feed
- some profile information so the email and SMS work – it will only be used in UW Events, if that bugs you, don’t use the feature
- improvements in the search
- live-ish preview on the submission page and some tweaks on its layout
As with the previous version we have hCal all over the place, some hCard in the footer, and a simple approval process. After a few bug fixes and creating a mobile version, we are going to leave it alone for a bit unless something big is broken. Over the next few weeks we will fix some CSS oddness but beyond that we are done for now 
We will have it in RubyForge by the end of April though so if you want new features, that will be your chance.
There is a pretty cool Ruby project that will consume April so look for that in May!