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briefscaster 0.1.1

briefs-caster

What is it?
This is a simple Briefcasts server for your Briefs.
Rob Rhyne developed Briefs, an iPhone application for creating wireframes for
Cocoa touch applications.
This is an insanely cool app, and much props go to Digital Arch. Check it out first, http://giveabrief.com.

Briefcasts and briefs-caster
Within Briefs, you can add a URL that points to a list of briefs. In the app,
it’s called My Briefcasts.
briefs-caster converts any .bs files into .brieflist files using the
utilities provided by the Briefs starter kit and serves them up on
http://0.0.0.0:5000 as a Briefcast.

Installation
Requires Mac OS X
briefs-caster uses Python. To install it open a terminal and type the following
easy_install briefs-caster
If you use Pip (recommended), alternatively run this
pip install briefs-caster
Note you may need to sudo these commands on your system.

Usage
We’re going to assume that you’ve installed Briefs and have started using it.
You should be to the point that you have a .bs file that you’ve
created.
Let’s pretend it’s in a directory called ~/my_briefs.
Run the briefs-caster from the directory
cd ~/my_briefs
briefs-caster
Alternatively you can tell briefs-caster where to serve from
briefs-caster ~/my_briefs
You should see the following output
briefs-caster - Serving up some fine briefs for you

Open http://<IP_ADDRESS>:5000 from the Briefs app

CTRL-C to exit the server
* Running on http://0.0.0.0:5000/

Errors
Check the terminal for any errors that the Briefs script utililty produces. If
you mis-type something, forget a required attribute or something like that it
will show up in the output.

Add to Briefs
In the Briefs app do the following:

Touch My Briefcasts
Touch Edit in the top right
Touch +
Enter Name Briefs-caster example
Enter URL http://127.0.0.1:5000 or if you are not using the same computer
this IP may be different (we run the iPhone Simulator with Briefs inside it)
Touch Save
Touch Done

Now you are ready to try it out:

Touch Briefs-caster example

If everything went as expected, you should see your list of Briefs.

News

0.1.1
Release date: 28-Sep-2010

Added the ability for briefs-caster to automatically convert your .bs files for you
you no longer need to generate the .brieflist files manually

0.1
Release date: 23-Sep-2010

Initial release