How is your Italian?
The Italian magazine DEV has published an article about Morfik in its August issue which is dedicated to the topic of AJAX. The author, Paolo De Nictolis used Morfik C# to develop the examples for the article. He covers some of Morfik’s strengths and current shortcomings. I am sure all of you who are conversant with Italian will enjoy it, and if anybody would like to translate it, it would be much appreciated :-) In the meantime here is an extract "Nella corsa alla conquista di AJAX e di quello che molti chiamano il Web 2.0 entra anche questo progetto australiano, il cui “WebOS” nel nome denota la volontà di costruire applicazioni indipendenti dal sistema operativo sottostante. Per la verità, stiamo parlando della versione per il mercato consumer: è previsto anche un prodotto per quello corporate, dal nome provvisorio di “Classic Web Apps Builder”. Il paradigma di lavoro è quello, portato al successo da Delphi e Visual Basic, del “pannello” o Form su cui disegnare la propria applicazione, sfruttando uno dei quattro linguaggi supportati: Object Pascal, Basic, Java e C#; naturalmente, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML serve proprio per permettere lo scambio di informazioni su una singola pagina Web invece che fra pagine differenti, realizzando così il paradigma della Form. Inoltre, un semplice rebuild della Rich Internet Application sviluppata consentirà di avere una soluzione desktop; non solo, sarà possibile scegliere se la “destinazione” dovrà essere Windows o Linux: la “traduzione” sarà compito del core engine sottostante, al quale si è anche sacrificata la compatibilità al 100% con le specifiche dei quattro linguaggi utilizzabili. L’interfaccia è stata modellata, per comodità dello sviluppatore, su quella del familiare Microsoft Access, prendendo poi le funzionalità chiave di Visual Studio, Eclipse e degli IDE Borland. Grazie alla cortesia di Fuad Ta'eed, uno dei promotori del progetto, abbiamo potuto aderire al Pioneer’s Program e testare la versione beta più recente del prodotto.”
Top Ten Web 2.0 Games
Ajaxian writes “Bored at work (or at home, for that matter) and looking for something to do? Well, this page might have just the ticket for you. It lists out a “Top 10″ of some of the more popular Web 2.0 games offered on the web, as ranked by the number of exit clicks each has gotten on the page. “ Morfik Chess is included in the above list and also in another More AJAX-Based Online Games .
AppsBuilder Build 0.8.8.x
It was in June that we released 0.8.7.6 to Pioneers and this contained a number of new features primarily directed at issues related to what is called the ‘Classic Edition’, that is external database connectivity. We have since been working on the critical bugs identified by Pioneers and maintaining the momentum of R&D work. Our internal build is now at 0.8.8.8 and we hope to have a release candidate for Pioneers over the next few weeks. This release will be directed towards the needs of the on-demand developer and will expose the initial features of the ‘SOA Edition’ using examples from Salesforce.com.
Start-up seeks JavaScript payday
Simon Hayes from AustralianIT has written a short article giving his take of Morfik and its provisional patent
3o Firebird Developer's Day, Brazil
Em 29 de Julho foi apresentado à audiencia do 3o Firebird Developer's Day, no Brazil, o Morfik WebOS AppsBuilder. Com perto de 600 participantes esta conferência é o maior encontro de usuários de Firebird no mundo. A facilidade de uso do Morfik AppsBuilder e sua integração com o Firebird despertou muito interesse na plateia que fez muitas perguntas sobre com as coisas funcionam na Morfik e sobre os recursos gerais do produto. Durante todo o dia nosso palestrante, Mauricio Longo, esteve no local respondendo questões colocadas por individuos e grupos de empresas, de todo os tamanhos, que estavam interessados no cronograma de lançamento, novos recursos e na precificação do produto. On July 29th, the Morfik WebOS AppsBuilder was introduced to the audience of the 3rd Firebird Developer's Day conference, in Brazil. With close to 600 attendees this conference is the largest gathering of Firebird users in the World. The ease of use of Morfik's AppsBuilder and its tight integration with Firebird sparked a lot of interest in the audience which had lots of questions about how things work in Morfik and the product's general capabilities. All through the day our speaker, Mauricio Longo, was on site and addressed the questions of individuals and groups from companies of all sizes who wanted to discuss Morfik's release schedule, up coming features, and product pricing.
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Morfik's scope is simply amazing!
“The most exciting thing about Morfik for me is that I can use a traditional object-oriented development approach to get an AJAX-enabled web application, hooking into multiple web services.” “It provides an exciting opportunity to leverage all the benefits of a service-oriented architecture without resorting to clunky client-side, handcrafted JavaScript. The productivity leverage it provides is simply amazing.”
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Alan Perkins (Altium Limited)
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