BeeBole beta is live, try it now!

We are very excited to announce that BeeBole beta is now live and available for all of you.
It’s time to try out!

Try BeeBole now!

The main features are:

But more than that, BeeBole is an extremely flexible Business App.
Watch out our last presentation at SF Newtech in San Francisco to learn more.

BeeBole is free during the public beta period, and we will offer a discount
for everyone who participated in the beta.

Again, thanks for your help. And please, tell your friends about us.
Tell them there is a new way for business apps.

Get started with our video tutorials

If you need help to get started with your new account, we created a few video tutorials

More videos will be added soon. Be sure to come back and discover new tips
you might have missed at first sight.

Need help?

To report issues, share ideas and missing features you would like to see, or if you find
certain part of the tool difficult to understand, feel free to contact us on our Customer Service.

Lessons learned in Silicon Valley

  • Be open about your ideas/startup. Just pitch them constantly. The feedback is amazing, especially in the Tech Mecca.
  • Be bold when it comes to meet Valley superstars. They are much more open than what we think, here, in Europe.
  • Be ready for a culture shock when you land in the middle of Bay to Breakers after a 11 hours flight.

A few highlights for BeeBole

On Tuesday, we had a 5 min pitch/demo on the stage of SF Newtech.

A big thank you to Myles from SF Newtech who gave us this opportunity. And a big thank you to Rudy Demotte, Chief Minister of Wallonia (the Belgian region where BeeBole is located) for his presence and support.

On Wednesday and Thursday we lost our voices in the Developer Sandbox at the Google IO.
It was an amazing experience and the feedback we received was really good. It also created great opportunities we are now digging into. Thank you to all the Google fans, developers and partners who passed by. I have shared a few picture of our booth.

Last but not least, the Webmission San Francisco 2010.
Thank you to Jenny for making this a huge success. Thank you to the webmissioners for bringing so much energy. It was, really, an incredible team.

San Francisco, Google IO… See you next year !

Our team is in San Francisco

We landed this week-end in San Francisco, for a full week of work and fun.

First, we will be presenting BeeBole on the 18th at the SF Newtech “The Belgian’s are back”
with a few other Belgians startups.

Free Tacos at the after party!

On the 19th and the 20th, we will be demoing our application in the Developer Sandbox
at the Google IO.

If you have the chance to have a ticket, just come by our booth! We will show the last goodies.

The rest of the week is full of visits, meetups and talks with our Belgian Webmission.

BeeBole invited to Google I/O Developer Sandbox

Google IO

We are very honored to announce that we are invited by Google to present BeeBole at the Developer Sandbox during the Google I/O 2010 in San Francisco.

Google I/O is Google’s largest developer event of the year and will occur on the 19th and 20th of May.

It is an amazing opportunity for a Belgian startup to participate to the Developer Sandbox amongst other companies such as LinkedIn, eBay, … but also to meet and learn from top developers.

In the coming weeks we’ll provide more details about how we use Google technologies like Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Chart Tools, … in our web app.

Meanwhile, you can already watch this video teaser and subscribe to the beta.

JavaScript templates engine PURE goes 2.0

It was in the pipe since a few weeks and it is now official: PURE v2 is out !

Download the library and get started!

Or simply take a look at the demos

New features

  • A total code review in functional JS (Thanks Rog Peppe for the jump)
  • ~8k when packed (35% less)
  • No more inside eval / new Function(). Less possible side effects and improved compile response time
  • More verbose error checks for easier debugging of templates and directives
  • Added support for dojo and Sly plus a standalone mode (dojo, domAssistant, jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, Sizzle and Sly are supported now)
  • All nested loops levels available within a function directive
  • Nested directives makes the code more natural and easier to maintain

There is a guide to help you migrate your templates to v2 if you are still using v1.

New documentation and website

We entirely reviewed the documentation and migrated it to our website.

And to make it even better, the design has received an extreme makeover.

Feedback

As always, feedback is more than welcome on the PURE discussion group.

BeeBole Goes To Sevilla

We took a multi-lingual approach for our web app from the very first day we started developing and even if our beta is not public yet, our private beta testers can already play in four languages: English, French, Dutch and Spanish.

In a few weeks, we will have a unique opportunity to meet the Spanish web scene.

BeeBole in Spanish Thumbnail

On the 13th, 14th and 15th of November, the biggest Spanish web event, Evento Blog, will occur in Sevilla.

Thanks to the continuous effort of Ramón Suárez, a Spanish expatriate well known in the little web arena of Brussels, a Belgian web mission will take place.

This will give the chance to a few Belgian start-ups to discover the Spanish market a little bit deeper and meet its main actors (medias, VCs, …).

Robin Wauters, writer for the famous blog Techcrunch, is joining the mission and will also be a keynote speaker.

If you are a Belgian start-up interested in the Spanish market, I can only invite you to join this wonderful opportunity. All the information is available here and there are still a few seats left: http://wiki.webmission.be/ebe09

For the others, I hope to see you there!

And thanks again Ramón.

Convert HTML to PDF

As a background task for our web application BeeBole, I was looking for an easy and efficient way to produce PDF documents without being stuck with postscript like syntax or being feature limited in a design point of view.

Last week I discovered the tool I was looking for : WKHTMLTOPDF

By leveraging the power of the webkit engine through QtWebKit module, this thing is converting HTML with full CSS support to PDF the same way you “Save as PDF” from your browser ;)

In this article, I’ll show you the very first prototype I did of a possible WKHTMLTOPDF integration with our application.
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