Well I suppose we should make good on our promises from our session Tuesday morning. For those who weren’t there we announced that we would be releasing a new version of Ext.nd sometime this week or possibly next week depending on how things go.
I’m certainly excited to share everything that we’ve been working on and think the new release comes a long way in making things even easier on developers. Everything has also been converted over to the Ext 2.0 framework which alone provides vast improvements to performance and consistency.
Some things to look forward to:
- Simplified implementation - you no longer need to copy over design elements into your database
- Application Profiles - this is a bit more difficult to explain without going into a lot of detail, but the basic idea is that you will have an easy configuration form that will drive how Ext.nd deals with the various components within your application.
- Simplified HTMLHead/JSHeader - after filling out an application profile you can implement the Ext.nd code into a page or form with a single @DBLookup
- And More - There’s some other really cool stuff, but I want to leave some surprises
- Heavily moderated, SPAM will be dealt with.
Looking forward to it ..
Scott
January 23rd, 2008
Nice work on this and also on the LS2008 sessions!
As far as documentation and the “Using this database� document:
Shouldn’t there be a statement that the “ExtND\Edit ExtND Profile Doc� agent and the “ExtND\Sign DB� agent need to be copied into any database that uses the profile approach?
Just my 2 cents worth.
Eric Romo
January 31st, 2008
Eric,
The Sign DB agent was only for convenience and not really needed. Though the Profile Doc one was in most cases. There was some confusion with all the various design elements that needed to be copied over which is why we’ve changed our approach with the new release. You will not need to copy over any elements, including the agents.
Rich Waters
January 31st, 2008
Rich,
Do you know when you will have support for Categorized Views? Your session, in my opinion, was one of the best this year.
Brad
January 31st, 2008