Rich Waters

So after my recent article playing around with Ext on the server side with Jaxer, I figured I would check out Aptana’s cloud platform so that I had a decent place to host and test my Jaxer apps.

They sent over the credentials and information to install the cloud eclipse plugin, every thing was dead simple and within a few minutes I had partitioned off a section of the cloud and deployed a simple Jaxer app that I had been playing around with. They did a nice job integrating the cloud infrastructure, syncing is a breeze and I’m looking forward to having some more time to play around with it.

When I get a chance this week I’ll toss up the Jaxer code from the examples I wrote for the Ext article and post the url.

I’m not one to normally do frivolous things like blog about blogging, but I spent a good deal of time playing around with Jaxer and wrote up an article on the Ext Blog. The article covers integrating an Ext Data Store with Jaxer, and a nice example of using Ext.XTemplate on the server. Check out the post for a lot more detail and a bunch of code.

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything about the progress of Ext.nd, Jack and I have been quite busy since Lotusphere. We’ve been on the verge of a new release for a while hope to have it tested and available soon.

As for the framework itself we’ve made some great progress lately. Jack has implemented a first pass at rendering categorized views and has done a lot of work to make them play nicely with a PagingToolbar. I’ve recently finished a large rewrite of the outline and view code to directly extend TreePanel and GridPanel. This change has allowed for much greater flexibility as we can now include domino components directly into an Ext layout via XType. The changes have allowed for some nice refactoring, leading to much cleaner code and increased performance.

Keep your eyes peeled, I’ll announce the release here and in the forums when it is available.

Twitter has actually been around for quite some time now. I even signed up for an account a long time ago and just never did anything with it. Now, with the rush of Twitter adoption through the Notes blogging community (TwitNotes, Ed Brill, Planet Lotus) I figured I may as well give it a try.

I’m not sure what I do and where I go is all that interesting, but you never know

In an effort to stay on top of upgrades and security updates in a more timely fashion, I just upgraded to the recently released Wordpress 2.5. If you are running a Wordpress blog I would definitely recommend heading over to the download site and upgrading. As with all my past upgrades, everything went very smoothly. They have definitely done a good job keeping upgrades simple.

The first noticeable change is the major overhaul to the Admin interface. They actually worked with the Happy Cog team to put together a very nice and much cleaner interface. Happy Cog are the folks behind ‘A List Apart’ and ‘An Event Apart’ which I’ve been to a couple of times now. I was previously using a plugin to replace the Admin interface but I may stick with the default now