This time around we left the major Complete UI release in Beta for a month to give us a bit more time to work out all the quirks with our major new feature - Complete UI Dreamweaver Extensions. Now you can go from a database to an Ajax application in minutes using the awesome Dreamweaver Extensions that allow you drag and drop Nitobi components into your web page and have server CRUD (ASP, PHP, JSP, CFM) generated according to the database that you are connecting to!
Also if you are at Adobe MAX in Chicago ping Andre or Alexei who are there representing Nitobi and presented an Inspire session today about AIR and Ajax!
Now that things are starting to settle down at the new office and I am back from my travels in Dallas and Portland we can finally settle into some hack day fun.
It is really just an idea right now but please submit any ideas as comments. It will be open to pretty much anyone that wants to come and we will likely have it on an upcoming saturday. Nitobi will supply the hacking essentials like caffeine and pizza (maybe even some beer . The one stipulation is of course that everyone, either in a small group or alone, builds something cool and presents it to the rest of us (true to the spirit of the hack day). This something cool could be in the RIA space (Ajax, Flash, AIR, JavaFX, etc) but it could also be hardware or otherwise.
I am throwing out there Oct 13 as a tenative date so speak now if you have already got that day booked.
UPDATED: Oct 13 is just stupid cause thats thanksgiving weekend … Oct 20 is the new date.
UPDATED AGAIN: Please signup on Upcoming since space will be limited - and Andre will likely be doing some judging and giving away some sort of prize(s)
This is not something that I am going to blog about very often but I could not help myself. Having lived in London for a few years I understand that if there is one thing that can unite Londoners it is their amazing disdain for public transport. Water cooler chatter usually consists of a healthy dose of war stories about the days train and bus rides.
From the linked article, Richard Middleton, the “head of rail” (!) at Steer Davies Gleave, says that “Germany is very good at integration - timetables match up … But the UK is better at providing information for passengers.”
I am not really sure what that means? I guess “providing information for passengers” is supposed to make up for really crap service?
While it may take the likes of Google to provide free wireless to the city of San Francisco, Joe Bowser has instigated a veritable stampede to get a wireless mesh installed in Vancity. Unlike San Fran this is from the bottom up - from the grass roots rather than the tree leaves.
In particular Joe is focusing on the Gastown area with the help of Nitobi and their local neighbours like Bryght.
If you are in Gastown or Vancity then get your wireless mesh node here for the low low price of $99!
A big kudos to Joe for getting this whole crazy idea off the ground!
Picture of BrianLeroux and Joni Rustulka (Joni do you even have a blog and pls twitter more!?!?) care of nep
I was working down in Portland on a top secret Ajax application for a big Portland based company and am finally back in Vancity for a labour day weekend holiday. Come Tuesday morning I am back down in Portland for another week of work. I haven’t even had a chance to see the new office since we moved in _and_ I missed critical mass last night
Alas, I am looking forward to being back in Vancouver for more than a week at a time!
(picture of voodoo bacon donut in Portland care of Jake)
We have a signed contract - Nitobi is moving! We are getting out of North Vancouver and moving to the third floor at 247 Abbott Street. It is very nearby to some of the best pubs and food spots in the city!
Something that is also important to me is the fact that it should have a very small environmental footprint. We have opening windows instead of an air conditioner, there is no elevator, there will be low energy lighting and we all use laptops. Also, maybe most importantly, the office is much closer for most of us to commute - at the very least it will make it far less daunting to get on a bike on those rainy winter Vancouver mornings.
I just thought that I should voice my disappointment once more regarding the fact that Adobe as yet has not confirmed that XSLT is going to be included in the final release of AIR. This is particularly strange given that it is included in the version of WebKit that is being used by AIR.
As usual I have been thinking of a cool application that would be well suited to a simple cross platform desktop widget, only problem being that it requires XSLT for high speed grouping and filtering of data. Normally, data for an AIR application might be accessed through some “web service” but in this case it is accessed natively as XML from the file system. If AIR does not have XSLT support it makes it much more difficult to make compelling and richly interactive applications for the desktop.
It is a bit of a change for me to be posting about environmental issues on my Nitobi blog but I think it is about time - particularly since my PhD is in solar cell physics.
So not only do we have to worry about a warming world but also decreasing fuel for that warming. I think this is an appropriate post to be making from Dallas no?
About a week ago Scott G over a MS blogged about the pre-alpha release of IronRuby. Very cool stuff.
For those that don’t know, IronRuby and friends (IronPython, JavaScript, Dynamic VB) is a project that is, like JRuby for Java, enabling Ruby to run on top of the .NET Framework. This means that your dynamic Ruby script can also have access to all the underlying .NET goodness (and badness). It will be very interesting to see how the performance is.
It is also really cool that they are doing Python and JavaScript as well. It’s like Phobos and JRuby all in one neat little package with a dash of python for good measure. Oh have I forgotten one of the languages? I can’t help but laugh when I see Dynamic VB.
Here is a code snippet from Scott’s post with some Ruby script using WPF - pretty cool stuff!
. The one stipulation is of course that everyone, either in a small group or alone, builds something cool and presents it to the rest of us (true to the spirit of the hack day). This something cool could be in the RIA space (Ajax, Flash, AIR, JavaFX, etc) but it could also be hardware or otherwise.
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