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September 28th, 2006

• Ajax Grid Update - Nitobi

  Change Log for Nitobi Grid.

  (tags: grid ajaxgrid nitobigrid3.22)

• Podcast on the North Shore: Andre Charland & Nitobi | Raincity Studios

  Megan Cole and I hooked up to chat about Ajax, Nitobi, Grid 3.2 and DogLotion down at Ambleside Beach. Not a bad way to podcast:)

  (tags: podcast grid nitobi ajax rcs raincitystudios raincity nitobigrid andrecharland megancole)

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September 27th, 2006

• Andre’s Blog » Blog Archive » What’s going on with OpenAjax?

  quick update on what’s going on at the open ajax alliance.

  (tags: openajax ajax nitobi)

• The 8 Free Things Every Site Should Do on Squidoo

  Alright Seth I set up a squidoo lens, now show me the traffic!

  (tags: business blogging web2.0 marketing SEO traffic)

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September 27th, 2006

So first off we launched our site (www.openajax.org) last week! Which we’re all very excited about:) Right now we have over 50 member companies, and this is growing substantially. Jon Ferraiolo told us today that he’s received more than 50 emails in the last business days since the new site went live. A good sign. With the new site we also received a donation, the domain OpenAjax.org which is much cleaner and easier to remember than www.openajaxalliance.org, yah! It was pretty loose to joing at first, all you had to do was email and Jon, have a chat and he’d determine if it made sense. Now you have sign an agreement that mostly has to do with IPR issues and the steeting committee has to approve you, so we’re getting serious.

Microsoft still hasn’t joined, maybe they never will:( One can imagine they have some reservations abuut jumping with IBM and a bunch of open source projects with out considering it carefully. Mind you Atlas has a kind of interesting license, from an MS perspective anyway. Still I think it’s important for them and the rest of the group that they get on board, come we’re all grown ups!

We’ve also published an Ajax white paper which is a great semi technical resource to get up to speed on what Ajax is, what it can do for you and how to go about doing it. Check it out here or download the PDF here.

The white paper is nice but it’s mostly a marketing piece and something for the media and analysts to grab onto. The actual work product is the OpenAjax Hub which is an open source project, that will facilitate different Ajax frameworks, JavaScript libraries and components to work together in the same app or on the same page. Of the 50 some companies involved in the effort there’s only a handful of people writing code, but I’m sure this will change with the first check-ins to SourceForge. The goal is to have something usable by early 2007!

So what is Nitobi’s involvement? Well, I’m on the marketing committee with Alexei, Dave’s working with Declarative Markup and James is working on interoperability stuff. Unfortunately none of us have all the time we’d like to have to devote to this valuable industry effort…but that’s what the way things roll sometimes. So what do we do? Well for staters we have conference calls every 2 weeks, where we discuss what we do and what we have to. They’re pretty typical committee conference calls, you never get as much done as you want to or think you could but things are moving along. The tech committees actually write code and discuss interop and architecture issues, the maketing folks have come up with website, white paper and press releases. So not bad. But we are not a standards body so don’t expect any;-)

We’re having our second face-to-face meeting next week at the Sun offices in Santa Clara, right after AjaxWorld. This will be my first and I’m looking forward to meeting everyone in person.

Just wanted to give a special mention to Jon from IBM, as I think he’s done a tremendous job getting things done and managing the whole committee process. Neither of which are small feats!

technorati tags:openajax, openajaxalliance, ajax, nitobi

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September 25th, 2006

• Ajaxian.com 2006 Survey Results

• Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns - Podcast 4 of 4: Functionality Patterns

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September 23rd, 2006

• Creating Passionate Users: Why they don’t upgrade (and what to do about it)

  Great article about how to approach releasing new versions of software to your customers. Being just finished a new version of our Ajax grid, I question whether we did everything right:S

  (tags: business design marketing software usability upgrade version)

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September 22nd, 2006

Discussin of Nitobi Grid 3.2, some javascript stuff, launching software and software industry analysts.

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September 22nd, 2006

• Paul Kedrosky’s Infectious Greed: Web 2.0 Venture Investing in 2006 Explodes

  Investing in web2.0 way up! Interesting times we’re in again. How long will it last and how much are folks going to pull out of this investment? I don’t know…

  (tags: web2.0 vc investment internet business)

• Exercise can make you a better entrepreneur: ” | Lance Tracey

  I couldn’t agree more! Good call Lance.

  (tags: entrepreneur fitness)

• Sept 22 is Car Free Day

  do it!

  (tags: carfree environment car)

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September 21st, 2006

• Nitobi Releases Grid V3.2

  We did it! We finally shipped Grid 3.2 and we’re really stoked. Lot’s of improvements. Blog post coming soon:)

  (tags: ajaxgrid ajax nitobi grid nitobigrid 3.2 asp php jsp)

• Steal This Job Blog

  Great blog about Jobs that young adults are doing that kick ass! By Caroline Dobuzinskis

  (tags: career young jobs jobposting blog)

• Steal This Job Blog: WorkSpace Guy In Charge

  Bill Macewen of Workspace gets profied on the steal this job blog! Great work Bill!

  (tags: workspace billmacewan smallbusiness)

• Weird Al, FTW! - Joystiq

  He’s still got it.

  (tags: funny music weidal whiteandnerdy)

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September 21st, 2006

Alright it only took a couple all nighters, a few pizzas, some sushi, a bunch of beer, focus, a blog fight with some analysts, lots of espresso, muffins and a weekend marathon but the long awaited Grid 3.2 is ready to roll:

Nitobi Grid V3.2 (September 20, 2006)

• Separated data sources from rendering, creating 6 distinct modes of operation:

• LiveScrolling Ajax
• LiveScrolling Local
• Paging Ajax
• Paging Local
• ShowAll Ajax
• ShowAll Local

Added ShowAll mode - Perform a single get on the data and render it all at once. Useful if all the the data is needed at once for JavaScript operations.

Improved loadtime performance ~100%. Grids appear more quickly on the screen.

Added new editors: Image, checkbox, link, password

Improved CSS styles for less parent-style intrusion. * Nitobi namespace replaces deprecated Nitobi one. “Nitobi” becomes “NTB”.

Added static databinding features

• Client-side sorting
• In-document xml data islands

Extended the Nitobi Framework The Nitobi Framework is the underlying toolkit that supports our components. It will soon be available as a standalone component, but can be accessed now when using the Grid. Some of the components which have been added to the API documentation are:

• Event Manager - Standardizes cross-browser DOM events. Provides a simple JavaScript publish/subscribe event pattern that can be used for general event notifications.
• Data Table - A complete client-side dataset object alowing easy synchronizing between client-side and remote datasets.
• Callback - Developers can now use the native Grid cross-browser transport method to perform their own Ajax callbacks. Its no longer necessary to use a 3rd party Ajax frameworks to do Ajax transport when using Grid.
• Cross-browser XML/XSLT Libraries - Perform XSL transforms on xml documents with full cross-browser support using the Grid’s native xml library.
• Documentation - Added the framework to the public documentation so the component methods can be used by developers in their own applications external to Grid.
• Cross-browser DOM Toolkit - Access the native Grid DOM library. Supports things like outerHTML, dimensional positioning.

Nitobi Knowledgebase - Whats New in Grid V3

Alexei really busted his ass to build 9 new Ajax samples with code and explanations to help develoers get started:

• Basic Grid Demo
• Live Scrolling Mode
• Paging Mode
• ShowAll Mode
• Remote Data
• Static Data
• Master - Detail
• Editors
• Copy and Paste

Ok enough with the blogging, go download it! Please send me any feedback you have!

Thanks again for your patience, understanding and support! I’ll put a screencast highlighting the new features up soon…

technorati tags:ajax, ajaxgrid, nitobi, nitobigrid, nitobitgrid3.2, aspgrid, phpgrid, jspgrid, javascriptgrid, javascript

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September 20th, 2006

• Apple - Trailers - Jesus Camp - Trailer

  :’(

  (tags: politics religion video movies camp jesus christianity)

• OpenAjax Grows, Sets Agenda

  The Open Ajax Alliance announces it’s website, white paper and plan for the first release of the Open Ajax Hub. Congrats to everyone involved with the Open Ajax Alliance.

  (tags: openajax oaa launch website press openajaxalliance)

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