We are proud to announce that the core skinnyboard codebase has been released as an open source project under the MIT License.
It is now available on github
This is a brand-new version of Skinnyboard created in Ruby and uses Rails, Sinatra, CouchDB, mysql, jQuery and Sammy.js in an unholy marriage of API, website, ajax, relational, and nosql, all in a Rack stew.
Fluid Media, Inc. will continue to offer the system as a high-performance hosted service. We will be migrating existing users to the new system over the next few weeks.
You can continue to try it for free.
We are pleased to offer up the code to the community.
We hope that people will use it and help to make it better.
Thanks, and best wishes for a prosperous new year (and decade) from Fluid Media.
We’ll be closed from December 25, 2009 – January 3, 2010.
We’re back in the office on January 4, 2010.

We’d like to wish everyone an enjoyable holiday season and a very happy New Year!
We’re at the JQuery Conference in Cambridge, MA this weekend.

Brian will be running an introductory course on CouchDB on Thursday.

Brian’s off to merry old England for Erlang Factory next week.

We’ve been working with CouchDB lately – it’s an architectural re-think for our development team, a total paradigm shift. It’s of the web
Brian’s going to be learning from the CouchDB creators and bringing that goodness back to FMi.
Yep, that’s super-salesman Billy Mays with our own super-coder Danny.

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Agile Birds of a Feather session on Tuesday, and anyone who applauded after our Skinnyboard.com Lightning Talk on Wednesday.