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Archive for March, 2008

Box layout containers for Dojo

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

What is it?

HorizontalBoxContainer and VerticalBoxContainer is a pair of layout managers that allow multiple children components to be laid out either vertically or horizontally. This is similar to BoxLayout from the Java Swing toolkit.

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Nexaweb Advance Getting Plenty of Attention

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Legacy applications are an even bigger headache than was originally thought. The announcement of Nexaweb Advance has generated huge attention in the media and has caused a 400% jump in traffic to www.nexaweb.com over a normal 5 day period. Check out some of the coverage below:

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Avatar World 2.0

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

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Widget Wars vs. The Big Picture

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Just my thoughts from talking to people……

Widget Wars - Every time I talk with enterprise scale customers, they always seem to be mostly interested in the latest “sexy” or “fancy” widgets to address a specific item or customer request. They want to use open source libraries and find a clever way to make 46 different tool kits and frameworks all work together seamlessly to deliver a “unique rich user experience”.

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New version of Studio - beta available

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

We’ve been working hard on a new version of our development environment and we’re releasing a beta into the world.

Some highlights:

  1. Data, data, data - all work flows that interact with data integration have been overhauled
  2. Supporting users that have their own Eclipse environment and don’t want ours
  3. Editing our “macros” - declarative modification blocks that can be executed on the client
  4. Supporting JSON visualization for data sources
  5. Results from usability testing has been added in
  6. and more…

If you would like to take the beta for a spin, email our support department.

Rob Gagne