Blogs

If you figure you’ve only got 10 or 20 seconds at the most to convert new website visitors to regular users, Spotlight is for you. If you’ve ever wanted to embed a tour of your website or application, but thought that screencasts were jinky, or just wanted something cooler, Spotlight is for you. If you find yourself spending fair amounts of time creating training material, or performing a lot of in-person training on your web-app, then Spotlight is for you.

What the heck am I talking about? Ok.. we’re releasing a new component called Spotlight that lets you build dynamic web-tours of your web applications. It’ll be part of Complete UI in the upcoming quarterly release. Current customers get it for free. That is all..

We’ve release a _major_ update to complete UI for Java developers. Its available now to trial download, and we’ll have it in the customer center shortly. You can watch a short video on the update here.

When Andre was at the Web2.0 Expo in San Fran, he got the chance to chat with Mike Macdonald from WebProNews about Nitobi and RobotReplay. Interesting 7 minute interview!

Question.. Why is my IIS-hosted web application running so slowly with such little traffic? Why am I only able to service 1 or 2 requests per second?.. could it be that query I added late last week is crippling my entire server?

YES! After a day of pulling my hair I was able to determine all I needed was 1 additional lousy index added to one of my tables. The power of the index on server performance is nothing short of miraculous!

Come get our book! Enterprise Ajax is now available on Safari Rough Cuts (http://safari.phptr.com/9780132242066). This book drills down on some of the challenges and methods of developing robust, scalable Ajax applications in an enterprise environment. These are the sorts of things we felt weren’t really being addressed by other books, although still fantastic resources in their own right. It comes with a lot of code samples and covers topics like Design, debugging, UI patterns, risk management, user acceptance testing, and even throws in some case studies.

Some follow-up video material will be coming later this year (available seperately) but you can go ahead and get the rough cuts now before its on shelves.

Of course, looking forward to feedback!

Hola. I’m back from a three week jaunt to Cuba. It’s a fantastic country with amazingly friendly people and tonnes to see and do. About 90% of my photos from the trip are lost due to the theft of my camera memory cards from a hostel – but I’ll post the few that I have left shortly.

I’m really excited about the next 2 months at Nitobi. We’ve got a lot coming down the pipe for you. This includes:

RobotReplay – We launched the beta 2 weeks ago and were overwhelmed with the response. We’ve been rushing to upgrade our capacity so everyone who wants an account can get one, and so that everyone has excellent quality of service. Over the next 2 months we’ll be adding capacity, new features, and fixing bugs. We’ll also be officially launching at some point soon once we’re sure we have all the kinks out.

Complete UI J2EE Refresh – May 8. Mark it down. This is huge if you’re a Java developer. We’re releasing a new version of Complete UI for Java with many important improvements including support for struts 1 and 2, Eclipse IDE integration with WTP support, Servlet support, Better sample packaging, improved learning material, and more.

CompleteUI Q2 – On June 1st we’ll be launching the Q2 iteration of our Ajax suite of components. We’ll be announcing shortly what will be part of this, but expect big leaps forward in the performance and usability of Grid, as well as enhancements to our other components. We’ll also be launching at least 1 brand new component. Something cool you haven’t seen before too. (Can anyone guess what it is?)

JavaOne – Our very own Dave Johnson will be presenting at JavaOne this year on Ajax and Java. His talk is “Practical Parallels: From Java to JavaScript programming” and will include some discussion on testing. May 9!

If anyone has any questions about this stuff let me know.