Monthly Archive for October, 2009

Let’s meet at JSConf in November!

I’m very happy to announce that my beloved open source project is announced over at JSConf EU as an Advanced Silver Sponsor!

Additionally, Ruben Daniels and I will be presenting about the new APF version and the insane stuff you can build with it:

Title: Building collaborative applications with Ajax.org Platform
Abstract/ About: Web trends and technologies today are converging to do one thing particularly well: collaborate.
All of us dream about the possibility to weave collaborative features from products like Google Wave, EtherPad, SubEthaEdit, Mozilla Bespin, Google Docs into our own applications.
Ajax.org Platform combines technology and open standards into a solution to build web applications with rich collaborative features at minimum expense.
The simple-yet-elegant, declarative API makes it easier to learn, while its openness in design allows it to be extended to the level you and your team are comfortable with.
Forget lock-in of vendors and other libraries or frameworks, forget waiting for the Big Boys to open source their latest inventions.
Start building your next - or first - collaborative web application today, visit ajax.org.

I’m really looking forward to meet all of the cool people that will be attending the very first JSConf in Europe!
The ones who are lucky enough to have obtained a ticket can really call themselves the avant-garde of the Javascript community ;)

I hope to see you there!

Ajax.org Platform 3.0 delayed a bit…

While having a blast in Boston at The Ajax Experience (#tae), we received loads of feedback to our plans and thoughts.

We decided to act upon that and started hacking again on APF, so that it would incorporate all those ideas into one, awesome release.

This basically meant a major refactor on top of what we already did up till before #tae. Guess what that means… a delay!

Yepper, it will take us at least a week from now to complete and stabilize the lot to reach Beta quality.

Will it be worth the wait? You decide:

  • contentEditable=”true” on any element
  • DOM3 including DOM events support
  • Choose between declarative XML and JSON markup to build UI’s
  • New language to bind widgets to each other and widgets to data
  • Tons of fixes of bugs and annoyances
  • IDE in the making…
  • more…

The release will be announced together with a new version of the Ajax.org website - hey it’s build with APF, so that makes sense, right? - and also on this blog.

Stay tuned and thanks so much for your patience!