Category Archives: Booked
Booked Tips: Controlling Reservation Display Label
Booked is configurable in so many ways. In this article we’ll review how to control the text shown for a reservation on all of the schedule and calendar views.
Look Mom, No Hands! Test Driving Code Without A Mocking Framework
I love TDD. I haven’t found a more effective way to incrementally design and build software in the 15+ years that I’ve been doing this. I have formed and evolved a lot of opinions about how I approach TDD, though. Recently, I wrote a post for EuroStar Software Testing titled Look Mom, No Hands! Test…
Booked 2.7 is out in beta!
I’m thrilled to announce that Booked 2.7 has been released in beta. This version is packed full of long-requested features. I don’t care about the details – how do I get it? Eager to try it out? I don’t blame you 🙂 [button text=”Download the beta from SourceForge” url=”https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpscheduleit/files/Booked/2.7/booked-2.7.1%20beta.zip/download”] [button text=”Give feedback and ask questions”…
Booked Feedback
One of the things I love most about working on open source software is the engagement of the community. Booked has a very active community with a huge repository of information. An increasingly common problem I’m hearing is that Booked has a steep learning curve. Being in the application every day, I have blinders on…
Twinkle Toes Software – Looking back on my first year
Wow, it’s been a year since I founded Twinkle Toes Software. I thought this would be a good time for me to stop and reflect a bit on how its going and what I’ve learned. The Zero Entry Pool Approach Am I a “zero-entry” entrepreneur? I’m sure there are countless ways to approach starting a…
Booked 2.5.9 release and some details about 2.6
Booked 2.5.9 was released earlier this week. I’ll wait while you go grab it. If you subscribe to our hosting service, you’re already updated. As far as minor releases go, this was a biggie. Some frequently requested features finally made it in, like showing custom attributes on reports, more options for what to show in…
We’re Officially Booked!
A New Name It’s been many months since the last phpScheduleIt release and a lot has happened since then. The biggest change is that I decided to rename the project to Booked. I’ve never been completely happy with the previous name and received a lot of feedback about it. I landed on Booked because it…
Extending phpScheduleIt : Getting started with the API
One of the big features we introduced in 2.4 was a RESTful API for integrating with phpScheduleIt. This is disabled by default but can be flipped on just by changing the config setting $conf[‘settings’][‘api’][‘enabled’] to ‘true’. Once you do that, navigate to the auto-generated documentation page at http://your_phpscheduleit_root/Web/Services/index.php (if you’ve got mod_rewrite set up with…
What’s up with phpScheduleIt 2.4?
It’s been nearly 5 months since the 2.3 release of phpScheduleIt and I’m sure some are wondering what’s going on. Well, a lot of time has been spent working with BrickHost in setting up a cloud-based hosting solution for phpScheduleIt. This will be a turn-key solution with full support for a great price. But development…
Extending phpScheduleIt – Writing a Pre-Reservation Plugin
My previous post walked through configuring and enabling plugins in phpScheduleIt. That’s great… but what if we need something custom to our environment? The most popular support requests I get are for changing different workflows – especially around the reservation process. Today I’m going to dive into how to write plugins for the pre reservation…