Travel Generation Development 101

Gidday folks.

My name is Chris Rae, I’ve been working on Travel Generation for a touch over 6 months as the primary developer.

A huge amount of work goes into the project, and only some of it is ever seen by the end-user. Travel Generation existed both conceptually and as a piece of software long before I came along thanks to the efforts of staff older and wiser than myself - I’ve just helped it along the way.

Everyone likes to think they’re getting the inside scoop. This section of the blog was designed to fill that need, it’s purpose is to allow developers to keep the users informed.

I can’t promise the sort of prolific content generation Dan manages to deliver on the front page, but I can at least in some small way contribute every now and again.

Right, that’s the airy fairy nonsense out of the way - lets get down to business!

Here is a brief non-exhaustive list of updates which have gone live over the last few weeks:

Users can now add more images to bookmarks - this is achieved via the ‘Edit’ dialog when you look at a single bookmark. The button is called ‘Add Media’.

The ‘Recent Activity’ footer came to be - it displays travel and development blog content on the TG homepage and within the travel planner itself.

You can now print that travel plan you worked so hard on, and have it look reasonable!
Make sure you click on ‘Show full plan’ before you try to print your itineraries though, otherwise you won’t have the full document! (printing is as simple as File - Print)

The travel stream went live, this allows us to see what we’re all up to! It displays lots of public content like what’s being bookmarked and who is registering for Travel Generation. It helps the community feel more ‘connected’.

You can now add a bookmark which doesn’t relate to a webpage! If you were watching the travel stream at all you might have seen things being bookmarked like ‘Beers with Sammy’. Now if I want to schedule something it doesn’t have to be webpage related, it can be any old event at all!
You achieve this using the ‘Add item’ button in the travel planner. You can leave the ‘URL’ section empty.

Safari users should now be fully able to bookmark content using the bookmarker.

Users can now export their travel plans using the link ‘Outlook/iCal feed’ - it will give you an .ics file you can load into Outlook, Google Calendar, iCal or any other software that supports .ics

Hopefully that gives you some idea of what the team is up to, good luck with your travel planning!

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Travel Generation - talking bout a generation

Travel Generation is a travel planning website based on social bookmarking technology.

Surf the Internet bookmarking any page to Travel Generation. Back in your Travel Generation travel planning account edit the meta and location information and schedule your bookmark onto a calendar to build up an itinerary and share with friends and family.