If you've ever done any project management, you're surely aware of how invaluable a good piece of project management software can be to help manage tasks. BaseCamp from 37Signals [1] has rocketed to be one of the most widely used web-based project tracking tools available and rightfully so. It's easy, powerful and whole lot less expensive than Microsoft Project!

Terrence Ryan [2] wanted some additional functionality so he whipped out an editor and created a ColdFusion component that ties into the BaseCamp API [3].

I've been using Basecamp [4] for freelance consulting and I absolutely love it. I have one problem with it, once you shut down a project the client can't get any of their materials. It would be nice if you could export the entire contents of a project, compile it into a .pdf, and ship it off to a client as part of a project closeout.

Terrance has implemented quite a bit of the BaseCamp API most notably:

• All of the data retrieval methods
• Create, update, and delete methods for comments and messages

Basecamp CFC is a work in progress so you can assume you'll see more.