Andre’s Blog

I couldn’t help but throw that cheesy title in for some reason:P You might notice that our blogs have been pretty quiet the last little while. I just wanted assure our customers, readers and the community that everything is going great here at Nitobi. The year is coming to an end, but we ain’t slowing down yet. On the contrary, we’ve wrapped up a few interesting customer projects some involving consumer Ajax user interfaces to help improve the results of ecommerce sites, I’ll be blogging more about these as we’re allowed. We also helped another software company get our Grid to render with ridiculous amounts of data, about 150 columns by 1000s of rows…now that’s some Ajax heavy lifting. There’s also the infamous Ajax book project, Enterprise Ajax, we’ve been working on for Prentice Hall. As I type this Dave is finishing the final few pages of Chapter 5, which is the final piece. It’s been a long road on that one and we’re looking forward to handing it over to the crew at Prentice Hall to let them work their magic. Dave’s going to be stoked to get back into focusing on our suite, which I’ll talk more about in a minute, and getting another Grid point release out next week with some nifty new features.

So the suite, the long awaited “when are you guys going to build something other than a grid and combo” Ajax suite is getting so close we can taste it.

We’ll announce the official roadmap and timeline next week, but for now here’s what I think will be in it:

• Tree
• Tab
• Input Masks (Editors)
• Date Picker
• Fisheye Menu
• Callback

We chose these based on the reference app UIs we wanted to be able to build.  We came up with a shipping management applications and invoice application.  We came up with these based on a number of factors, but largely based it on what we’ve seen our customers doing with our components and the types of applications they’re building.  We took this approach so that we could easily make decisions on features and ensure that we were building components that would work nicely together to solve a real problem.  Alexei’s been designing some pretty awesome mockups for them, hopefully we can give the world a glimpse of those next week as well.

Ok just want to give y’all a quick update.  Back to hack day! (I’ll talk about this more monday, but today is the first official Nitobi Hack Day!)

Technorati Tags: ajax, suite, components, tree, tab, inputfields, datepicker, fisheye, callback, design, usecase

| Del.icio.us

This entry was posted on Friday, December 8th, 2006 at 9:58 pm and is filed under AJAX. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.