In between all the other exciting stuff happening here like JaveOne, XTech and RobotReplay, we have also been working on improving the Complete UI suite!
In particular we will have a new Calendar control (which is integrated with Grid of course) and also something we call Spotlight that can be used to build a tour of your web application for help users.
What I have been working on (as anyone who has seen my twitter can attest to) is fixing up our flagship product, Grid. I have mostly been focusing on two aspects of it:
Improving layout and theming. This has been a long time coming and it is much better now but there is still some work to do to get it up to par with all the other components. Layout has been changed a lot and should make it much nicer to work with.
Improving performance. Another thing that has been a long time coming is better general performance. We have slimmed things down a bit in terms of code size and in fixing the layout we have also increased performance significantly.
I should also mention that Mike has been doing a bang-up job lately on getting the Java backend code ship shape as well as improving the docs - which everyone will probably be very happy about!
There has also been a slew of bug fixes going out for several of our customers that will become available to everyone with this release.
We are shooting for June 1 (this coming friday) so stay tuned!
It is nice having time to actually look at my email and check out what has been going in the world! Having been thoroughly swamped with preparing JavaOne / XTech talks, conitnuing product development and support, and flying half way across the world I finally have a spare moment to report on a few things of note that happened this past week at Nitobi. Luckily I can lift most of it from Alexei
First of all we have released some new support for Complete UI on Java. This coincided with our presence at JavaOne of course. The new stuff includes support for Eclipse, JSP taglib, servlets, Struts and more. Check it out here. Alexei even created a way cool video overview and posted it here - he has such a good screencast voice!
There is some other video to watch as well and that is a video interview Andre did for WebProNews about Nitobi and RobotReplay.
The Enterprise Ajax book is now available on Rough Cuts. The other thing in this vein is that it looks like we will also be producing some video content to go along with the book - should be interesting to see how that works out!
Next week, I will be in Paris to give a presentation at XTech on declarative Ajax programming - 9am Thursday May 17. I will talk about some of the driving factors behind declarative Ajax and have a few examples / demos. XTech is a really good quality conference I think and there are lots of interesting people going to be there - it should fun!
Some other Nitobi people (Jake and Brian) are going to be down in Portland for RailsConf over the Canadian long weekend (ha!). Hopefully they will find some good Rails action and have a few nice Portland brews!
RobotReplay is continuing to evolve and we are getting very close to moving some of the service over to EC2 and getting all the servers organized in preparation for a few way cool new features. Last week we got around to implementing a few new things as well and started to purge people’s old sessions to help keep things working smoothly
We also have a few cool new projects and products on the go that we will be blogging about soon!
For those of you out there that are thinking of using the JavaScript Flash Integration Kit for building an application watch out for this little bug.
In the FlashTag.addFlashVars(string) function it just sets the internal variable this.flashVarsStr. However, in the FlashTag.toString() method it checks if the this.flashVars variable is null or not to determine if it should write the flash variables into the Flash HTML tag. To fix it, I just changed it from this:
I posted some of our initial JSP taglib support for the Nitobi Complete UI and yesterday we posted some more good stuff!
Mike has been hard at work making a plugin for Eclipse WTP so that you can drag and drop your Nitobi components in the Eclipse IDE. He has also put together a plugin for Stuts 2. And for those that just want plain old JSP support he has also updated the JSP taglib. Go check out Mike’s post for the details of just download it below and give it a go!
We have finally released the public Beta of our RobotReplay service. What RobotReplay does is it records the mouse movements, clicks, and key presses and allows you to play them back. The service is completely Ajax based with no special plugins. Right now we don’t have much in the way of features but we are going to be constantly adding more and listening to our users about what they want to see.
First take a look at Andre’s screencast.
Otherwise, just sign up now and see what your users are doing.
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