Loopo is pleased to announce we’ll be working with EMI Classics to improve and extend their website. We’ll be making a number of changes to the existing website, and also doing some back office integration to allow streamlining of the release process.

We’re very pleased to welcome Triarchy Press as a new client.

Over the next few months, we’ll be building an exciting new website for Triarchy, which should launch in early 2008. The new site will feature an online bookshop, community features such as blogging, tagging and commenting on publications, and a whole load more besides.

More news, as we have it!

Fred and I spent two very enjoyable days at the XP Day conference, last week. As you might guess from its name, XP Day started out as a very specialised event for the Extreme Programming community, but over 6 years it has blossomed into a convention for all things Agile - and a very good one at that.

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In order to create a Rules Engine to fit our needs, some planning was needed. The first thing to do was to read up on rules engines in general - Wikipedia provided some answers. Their description of Forward Chaining sounded like what we wanted. It’s basically just a list of IF condition then action END IF statements that gets executed in sequence, although we opted to be able to run each rule as a IF condition then actions else otheractions END IF.

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We rather like our TRAC system. It’s simple, loads really fast, and doesn’t confuse our clients (too much).

Since migrating it to our new server, we’ve been able to play around with the functionality a little more. First, we looked for a way to have a more integrated login feature - something a bit nicer for the clients than the ugly old “challenge/response” box.We found the AccountManager pluginon Trac Hacks, which did the job extremely well.(Here’s how the login page looks now).
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