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qooxdoo 0.8.1 for christmas

Jonathan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:04:43 +0000

Shortly after our bugfixing release for the legacy series we released version 0.8.1 in the current category.

The work on 0.8.1 began just after 0.8 was online. The first thing we got our hands on was the online documentation. We added large articles explaining the core concepts of qooxdoo like selection handling, drag and drop but also started documenting each widget and also brought our snippets section back, which include solutions for frequently asked questions or best practices. If you have not seen our documentation section in a while give it a try. There is much to discover!

0.8.1 was a maintenance release including 250+ bug fixes and an overall polishing of the framework. See the official release notes for details.
For beginners we introduced a new application: qooxdoo playground. Embedded in this application is an online editor in which you can create small applications by yourself or load one of our samples and run them on the fly. This mini IDE features syntax highlighting, reports errors and executes your code instantaneously. Since many users just want to experience qooxdoo to get a feeling for it in the evaluation phase, the step to work with command line instructions was too much. We believe that with this tool we can satisfy these users as well.

So grab yourself a copy of the SDK and enjoy coding.

Ho ho ho. ;-)

Mission accomplished – qooxdoo 0.8 is out!

Jonathan — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:26:20 +0000

On Thursday we finally rolled out the best qooxdoo release off all times.

Within the last 13 months 26 developers made over 6,000 commits to our SVN repository and crunched 294 bugs. This all resulted in an effort of more than six man-years.
This release is not only the one with the most changes but also the best tested and documented one.

For this version we focused on two domains: the GUI Toolkit and the Tool Chain.
The GUI Toolkit is a complete rewrite of our old system built on top of a low-level DOM layer. This layer is designed to be replaceable: how über cool would it be to render widgets in SVG or Canvas once the technology is ready? ;-) The layer can be used stand-alone to provide generic and normalized access to the DOM and browser objects.
Another important point is the enhanced support for designing widgets. We added a container that lays behind the widget itself and can be filled with various content to draw borders, shadows, backgrounds and more.

qooxdoo 0.8 Demo Brower

Our Tool Chain is not Makefile-based any longer and does not require a bunch of Unix tools. The only requirement for the new Tool Chain is Python, which comes bundled with all good operation systems and can be installed easily under Windows.
There are many benefits from this new system (e.g. automatic generation of CSS Sprites, integrated internationalization support and easy editable JSON-based configuration files) which are essential for developing and deploying enterprise applications.

If you have not already done so, this is the perfect time to start working with qooxdoo. ;-)

qooxdoo 0.8 is coming close

Jonathan — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:51:53 +0000

Greetings! On Friday we released qooxdoo 0.8-beta1 one day delayed to our schedule due to some SVN problems our host sourceforge.net had to fight with. The general performance still is not on a good level, but at least we can continue working.
Anyway, this release came shortly after the last one but still offers many nice features and lots of new stuff to play with. ;-)
As we are eating our own dog food we started porting applications to 0.8 to gain experience in migrating applications and also to test the framework with real-life operations. The Demo Browser and API Viewer already have been ported and the Testrunner will follow soon.
This release includes many new features as Focus Roots and the Text Selection API.
You will find detailed information, as usual, in the release notes.

May the source be with you! :-)

qooxdoo 0.8-alpha2 released

Jonathan — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:25:42 +0000

Yesterday we released qooxdoo 0.8-alpha2. This is another important step forward to the 0.8 final. The release does not offer many new features (most new features are ported widgets), but a polished and improved APIs instead.
My personal favors are the newly introduced sub-control handling and state inheritance. You can see the latter in action in the Spinner demo inside the demobrowser. If you toggle the button labeled "Custom style" the Spinner's child widgets will inherit the state from its parent and get styled as defined in the theme.

Be sure to read the release notes for details.
Happy coding. :-)

qooxdoo 0.8-alpha1 is out

Jonathan — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:39:29 +0000

On Tuesday we released the first version of qooxdoo 0.8 as a alpha1. We are proud to present this major version (containing so many improvements, new features and additions) to the public for the first time. Be sure to see the new default theme and the qooxdoo animation demos.

Demo of the new default theme

All details can be found, as usual, in the release notes.
Have fun. :-)

Meet the qooxdoo team in May

Jonathan — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:02:23 +0000

This month you three chances to meet us in Karlsruhe: Thursday, the 8th at the NerdNight, 26th to 28th at the webinale and at the Dynamic Languages World Europe.

NerdNight is a recruiting event which should help us finding new coworkers at 1&1. Andreas will talk about qooxdoo, of course. ;-)
During the webinale we have two power workshops:
1. GUI Development with qooxdoo (Sebastian Werner, Fabian Jakobs)
2. Advanced Web Application Development (Sebastian Werner and other core developers including myself! ;-))
3. and one session within the RIA day:
  qooxdoo - Killer apps for all browsers (Andreas Ecker)
At the Dynamic Languages World Europe we have three sessions:

Be sure to read Andreas' post for more information.

Celebrating qooxdoo 0.7.3

Jonathan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:42:11 +0000

qooxdoo 0.7.3 was released this morning. Being a minor release which includes many bugfixes and improves stability of the framework, this release still is one of the largest in the history of this project. See the official announcement for a list of new features.

Have fun! :-)