QuickHub.App

QuickHub 1.7 beta1 is out

2013-11-25T00:00:00-08:00

Hi Hackers!

My Mac developer program ends this month so I want to celeberate this with the first Open Source release of QuickHub.

QuickHub now uses GitHub release feature as distribution support: You get check the release notes and download the app from https://github.com/chamerling/QuickHubApp/releases/tag/1.7-beta1.

Direct download link : https://github.com/chamerling/QuickHubApp/releases/download/1.7-beta1/QuickHub-1.7-beta1.zip

@chamerling

QuickHub is now open source

2013-11-15T00:00:00-08:00

Hi Hackers!

As promised this summer, I took some time to clean the code and it is finally time to open source QuickHub.

QuickHub is now available under the MIT License on github at https://github.com/chamerling/QuickHubApp. Please feel free to fork and to send your pull requests.

I particulary want to thank the first QuickHub beta tester: Philippe Charrière ie @k33g who tested QuickHub and highly suggested to push it on the Mac App Store. At least the sales allowed me to buy some more beers but not that much… You should follow Philippe and have a look to his repositories, he is a REAL (AND BIG) GEEK!

Note: Real Objective-C developers will probably found some strange stuff: This is completely normal. I started to learn Objective-C by developing this application and I really think that this is not a language for me ;)

Note: My Mac Developer account expires later this month so QuickHub will not be available on the Mac App Store anymore. It will be available on the github release section of the repository.

Now let’s hack! Cheers,

Christophe

QuickHub is now free

2013-06-21T00:00:00-07:00

Hi Hackers!

QuickHub.app is now free. I have been busy since several months with new baby, new job, new objectives, new ideas and I decided to free it. I will try to find time this summer to clean it, merge several branches with new features and open source it before the end of the year.

Source will be pushed to github in the QuickHub repository at https://github.com/chamerling/QuickHubApp.

Stay tuned (and enjoy the sun while not hacking!!!)

– @chamerling

What's new in QuickHub 1.6

2012-05-03T00:00:00-07:00

QuickHub 1.6 has just been published on the Mac App Store.

There are two new things in this version: A quick access to main actions and tons of new notifications generated from github events.

Actions

Actions are distributed across menus and it is sometimes too long to access them. You have now the choice to add an action menu from the preferences. This one will appear on the top and contains actions to create gists, issues and repositories.

Events

Github is full of events: When you start watching repository, following a developer, or when someone forks, creates an issue, comments something, creates a pull request, … These events are the ones you can see on the main github page and are now available in QuickHub: There are Growl notifications but also a menu where you can see your last 20 events.

Note that if you are a social and development addict, you can receive tons of notifications. You can filter or unactivate them from the preferences menu.

Hope that all this new stuff will be useful to you and that you will enjoy it. Cheers!

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.5 is out

2012-03-01T00:00:00-08:00

QuickHub 1.5 has just been released and is already available on the Mac App Store.

This version is now faster, fixes several issues and comes with a new feature called ‘ID cards’:

Note that the ID card also contains a clone button. Clicking on this button will launch the excellent Github for Mac as it will launch if you click on the Clone button from a github.com repository page.

What do you think about ID cards? Do you think we should extend it to issues, users, pull requests? Comments are welcome!

Time is now to think about QuickHub 2.0. Hope to give you news about that soon!

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.4.2 is out

2012-02-03T00:00:00-08:00

QuickHub 1.4.2 has just been released and is already available on the Mac App Store.

This version of QuickHub is a maintenance release. Thanks to the user feedback which allowed to fix the following issues:

[FIX] Bad menu items when no data is available
[FIX] Bad profile display when user has not filled its profile on github

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.4.1 is out

2012-02-01T00:00:00-08:00

QuickHub 1.4.1 has just been released and is already available on the Mac App Store.

This version of QuickHub is a maintenance release. There is no new feature but only some fixes and improvements for better user experience:

[IMPROVEMENT] The menu items are now listed in alphabetical order for repositories, organizations and users. This is really better to order these in QuickHub. Easier to find what you are looking for (while waiting for the search engine coming in a future version…).
[IMPROVEMENT] Better Growl messages. You may have noticed some incoherent messages, they have been fixed!
[FIX] Some Growl notifications are lost
[FIX] Several typos

QuickHub 1.5 is already under development and it will provide some new and cool features which will ease your developer life again. Stay tuned!

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.4 is out

2012-01-11T00:00:00-08:00

Here it is: QuickHub 1.4 has just been validated and published to the Mac App Store.

One more time, there are many fixes, improvments and two new features which have been asked by users : Issues creation and organization repository creation directly from QuickHub. For the other items, just have a look to this list:

[NEW] Create issues for your repositories. For now you can only create issues for your own repositories and not for the organization ones. I have to investigate more on the API side for that but it seems that it is not available or documented for now.
[NEW] Create repositories for organizations. All is in the title…
[IMPROVEMENT] Better issues display with repository name as prefix. Issues where displayed just with their title and so it was not easy to know the linked repository. So items are now prefixed in repository names (and organization name is needed).
[IMPROVEMENT] Issue item now have the submitter avatar as icon.
[IMPROVEMENT] Better error display when creating repositories.
[IMPROVEMENT] Data is loaded in the background… This one is important, data is loaded in the background so the UI will not freeze and app startup will be better.
[FIX] Bad link on ‘Repositories/Open’ menu item
[FIX] Fix windows close
[FIX] Fix wiki and issues choice when creating repository
[FIX] Regression on the number of items returned by the API call

All comments are welcome. I will be pleased to reply to them. There are some on the Mac App Store but it does not provide any way to reply, which is annoying when some users are giving bad review. But bad reviews also give motivation to enhance QuickHub and the current version is just the proof!

Do not hesitate to send me your ideas for QuickHub, I already added some in the last releases, so thanks all for that!

Finally, note that there are still some promo code available to get QuickHub for free, more information on my tech blog .

– @chamerling

Coming next in QuickHub 1.4

2012-01-06T00:00:00-08:00

Hi all,

Christmas and holidays are over and so I am now able to provide a new version of QuickHub with fixes, improvements and also new features. One more time, thanks for your comments. Those ones are generally good ones but they are some bad on the App store… Looks like some prefers to give bad review instead of just dicussing directly. BTW I took those good and bad comments into account and the 1.4 release note reflects them:

[NEW] Create issues for your repositories. For now you can only create issues for your own repositories and not for the organization ones. I have to investigate more on the API side for that but it seems that it is not available or documented for now.
[NEW] Create repositories for organizations. All is in the title…
[IMPROVEMENT] Better issues display with repository name as prefix. Issues where displayed just with their title and so it was not easy to know the linked repository. So items are now prefixed in repository names (and organization name is needed).
[IMPROVEMENT] Issue item now have the submitter avatar as icon.
[IMPROVEMENT] Better error display when creating repositories.
[IMPROVEMENT] Data is loaded in the background… This one is important, data is loaded in the background so the UI will not freeze and app startup will be better.
[FIX] Bad link on ‘Repositories/Open’ menu item
[FIX] Fix windows close
[FIX] Fix wiki and issues choice when creating repository
[FIX] Regression on the number of items returned by the API call

I am fixing some stuff and I will probably submit the application for Apple review on monday so that it should be available next week.

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.3 is out!

2011-12-12T00:00:00-08:00

QuickHub 1.3 is here and there are some fun things inside! The first and most important one is the support of OAuth: You are no more asked to give your GitHub password to QuickHub. After some discussions with users, I am sure that this will really help QuickHub to extend its usage.

The other nice feature is for Gist lovers. QuickHub is now available in your ‘services’ menu so you can create Gists from cmd+click or from your ‘Services’ menu item as showed here:

Several bug fixes and some new features are also available in this version. All details are given in the release notes.

Please feel free to send comments and ideas and thanks all for your support.

– @chamerling

Coming next in QuickHub 1.3

2011-12-06T00:00:00-08:00

First of all, thanks for all your comments and feedbacks about QuickHub 1.2. It tooks some nights to add some interesting features to QuickHub which is under review process since last night.

The first feature is about OAuth support: You do not need to give QuickHub your github password anymore. All authentication and authorization is now OAuth based. On the QuickHub side, it means that you will be redirected to quickhubapp.com and then to github.com to validate QuickHub rights on your github data. Once validated, you will have to give QuickHub a key by clicking on a button provided by a specific QuickHub web application. Note that for users already using the application in the previous versions, you will just be asked to authorize on application startup. I just want to thanks github support team for their reactivity on this topic. It is just amazing to see how quick they can react! So no more paranoia, you can just use QuickHub in a safe mode (please note that in all cases, the github API does not provide any operation to retrieve your password). So come on GitHub team, just tell me what you think about QuickHub :)

The second feature is Gist centric. Gist is really a great tool to share snippets with the world (and in some cases, with your colleagues). In the last versions, you were able to create Gists from a QuickHub window which was also drag and drop enabled. In QuickHub 1.3, you will be able to create Gists from your OS X services menu too. It means that you can do a text selection from any application and use the operation “Create a gist from selection” from the context menu, or select a file and use the “Create a Gist” one. QuickHub will automatically fill the Gist creation window with selected stuff.

Question to Gists addicts : Do you need something where we bypass the Gist creation window and push stuff automatically to github?

Last important feature: You can now create repositories from QuickHub. There is a dedicated menu/window for that.

QuickHub 1.3 will probably be validated before the end of the week, just look at your Mac App Store icon or check @chamerling tweets.

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.2 is out!

2011-11-22T00:00:00-08:00

Because short release cycle are better (and also because I added several cool things), Quickhub 1.2 is already here. As usual, it is available on the Mac App Store.

Several bug fixes and some new features are available in this version. My favorite one is the drag and drop support for gists creation (there is also a new logo, but I am not satisfied with it, so will have a look to find ideas about it later, if yoou have ideas let me know). All details are given in the release notes.

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.1 is out!

2011-11-10T00:00:00-08:00

Less than one week after the first version, QuickHub 1.1 has just been validated by Apple and is now available on the Mac App Store.

This version comes with many new things has I explained in the previous article and the one I really like is that you can now create Gists directly from QuickHub. Some cosmetic changes on the UI and other things has described in the release notes.

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.1 has been submitted for review

2011-11-07T00:00:00-08:00

QuickHub 1.1 has been submitted for review to Apple. This time, the review process should be faster! This version comes with many improvements on the UI side, some Internet availability fixes, but also provides way to create gists directly from QuickHub. Have a look to the release notes for more details.

– @chamerling

QuickHub 1.0 is out!

2011-11-05T00:00:00-07:00

QuickHub 1.0 has finally been validated by Apple. It is now available for download on the Mac App Store.

It took almost one week to Apple to validate the application. During this week, I added lot of things to QuickHub. The version 1.1 will be sent to Apple in the next days. Stay tuned.

Please fill free to comment, send feedback ad share this to the world!

– @chamerling

Here We Are!

2011-10-29T00:00:00-07:00

I finally submitted QuickHub to the Mac App Store last night. This tiny application stands in your OS X menu bar and let you access to your GitHub stuff directly from this dynamic menu.

Configure your access from the preferences (will use your system git preferences later)
Get your repositories, organizations, open issues, created gists. This is periodically updated. Period tuning is planned
Be notified with Growl when something changes
There will be many others items in the next future…

You can also Check out the quick documentation here.

Please fill free to comment, send feedback ad share this to the world!

– @chamerling