AJAX Magazine

AnyChart Stock and Financial Charts Now Available

2010-12-21T06:42:15Z

AnyChart announces the availability of AnyStock, a new Stock and Financial Charts component. AnyStock is a cross-platform tool for implementing visually appealing, interactive stock and financial charts, in custom web and desktop applications.

"We�re proud to announce the launch of AnyStock", said Alex Batsuev, AnyChart lead developer. "Our team has created an effective, extremly flexible tool for those dealing with stock market, Forex, commodity or investment market or any other time-based data. AnyStock allows to solve sophisticated business tasks and create user-friendly reporting interfaces."

AnyStock is an XML/JSON Flash based solution that offers a comprehensive set of tools for creating rich interactive visualization of date and time-based information. The component is easy to integrate and customize. It includes a wide variety of technical indicators and financial chart types, all of them being combinable. The ability to review long term and large data sets can easily be handled with scroll, pan, and zoom controls. Adding news events - analyst opinions, insider trading, dividends, and key developments - helps to analyze information effectively.

Magix, Enterprise Web Application Framework Open Sourced

2010-12-17T12:23:57Z

Magix is a complete Enterprise Web Application Framework by Winergy Inc., built around the ideas of O2 Software Architecture, containing a complete MVC Framework, O/RM kind-of library built around Active Types, a complete extensible Ajax Framework, and a modularized loading mechanism to dynamically load content in Ajax Calls or normal postbacks.

Magix features include :

* A complete Managed Ajax Library (Magix.UX)
* A complete MVC Framework
* A complete O/RM library, built around the Active Types design pattern form the O2 Architecture
* Fostering Domain Driven Design concepts (DDD)

Below the press release :

Wine Marketing Innovators Giving Away Their "Filet Mignon" Software

Glen Ellen, CA December 17 � What are they thinking? Glen Ellen, CA based, Winergy Inc, has just freely released their complete web application software. It's the foundation of their innovative WinePad application for wine tasting rooms. Why would this start-up, just three and a half months old, give it all away? Winergy CEO, Thomas Hansen explains, "Winergy is doing this because we see a need for more collaboration between tech vendors and wineries. We've created a platform that can provide a common "language" that everyone can build upon to create more collaboration and solve integration problems."

"We have a unique business mission, we seek only synergies." explains David Ingham, Winergy's Marketing Director, "It's a belief that has proven to be amazingly fruitful for us, simply said, it's the Three Musketeers credo "All for one and one for all."

DHTMLX Touch (Alpha) � Web Framework for Mobile & Touch Devices

2010-12-16T22:17:45Z

DHTMLX released the alpha for DHTMLX Touch, an open-source JavaScript HTML5 framework for building web applications with touch UI. It was developed specially for mobile and touch devices, such as iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets, etc.

The alpha also offers a Visual Designer tool that allows developers to create mobile web applications within a simple, drag-and-drop interface. For more details and live demos, visit: http://www.dhtmlx.com/touch/

Stimulsoft Reports 2010.3. Everything is good with your reports

2010-12-10T10:30:24Z

Stimulsoft Company, a manufacturer of software for data analysis and processing, announces the release of new versions of Stimulsoft Reports product line. Part of this product line Stimulsoft Reports.Web, which is a reporting tool designed to create and render reports using Ajax in a Web browser.

"This year we end on a positive note, - said Andrew Savin, Business Manager. - Everything we planned, we implemented. In 2010 our company released a new reporting tool for Silverlight, significantly improved products for .NET, WPF, and ASP.NET. The version 2010.3 crowned the end of the next period of product development."

The product line includes report generators for .NET, Web, WPF and now for Silverlight.

JavaScript Framework qooxdoo 1.3 released

2010-12-08T22:27:48Z

The Open Source JavaScript Framework qooxdoo just shipped two new releases 1.2.2 and 1.3. While the first one is a regular bugfix release, the latter one includes substantial improvements across almost the entire range of the framework.

Some highlights of the 1.3 release:

* New virtual List widget to visualize even huge data sets
* New widgets and UI features (Tri-state CheckBox, ProgressBar, Toolbar with overflow handling, ...)
* New experimental unit test runner with lightweight UI
* Support for touch-enabled devices
* Deep integration of automated GUI testing with Selenium
* New qx-oo package for non-browser environments like Rhino or node.js
* More than 360 bugfixes and enhancements over the previous
release

For more information including links and screenshots, please see the official announcement at http://news.qooxdoo.org/qooxdoo-1-3-and-1-2-2-released

jQuery wins the 2010 Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award

2010-11-23T20:58:52Z

Last week Packt Publishing announced the winners of the 2010 Open Source Award, I had the chance to be one of the official Judges for the JavaScript Category, and you may pardon me for sharing this one week later as I was traveling last week. I used to be very familiar with most JS libraries available, and I was not surprised at all when the result announced was exactly as I voted. Winner this year of the 2010 Open Source Award - JavaScript Libraries - is jQuery, and the 1st runner up is shared between Raphael JS and Mootools.

jQuery benefit from the largest community compared to all other JavaScript libraries and that's their biggest advantage. The library performance, usability, and ease of use helped to make its adoption higher in many small and large projects. Few years ago, my only take on jQuery was that 3rd party development was maintained by personal developer's efforts, which make upgrade not fun at all. Today there is an answer with UI and mobile project. There is still lot of work to do, and I think they are on the right path.

RaphaelJS however have the smallest community, and it's doing amazing work as it's more specialized library compared to all others. The library need more support and adoption to complete its goals, improve performance, and come with more innovative ideas in the future related to JavaScript vector drawing for the web, and mobile !

Below the press release :

New Release of Quick Tables, a Handy Database Editor from DHTMLX

2010-11-12T16:33:45Z

DHTMLX announced the update of its Quick Tables, an easy-to-use PHP solution for editing tabular data stored in the database. Quick Tables offer a simple tool for non-programmers to view and edit the data taken from database tables. Users can sort, filter, or edit the records, while all the changes are automatically applied to the server-side database.

The update adds some new good features and extends the list of supported databases. Quick Tables now support MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and MS SQL. The ability to display several grids, printing support, multilingual interface, and wider customization options make this release more handy for managing database records. Quick Tables are based on dhtmlxGrid component, and are delivered under GNU General Public License. To learn the details and download the recent release, please go to :
http://www.dhtmlx.com/blog/?p=733

Visual WebGui launches new CloudMove solution and tools for faster migration of Client/Server apps to SaaS Web or Cloud

2010-11-08T20:21:45Z

Gizmox, the developer of Visual Web GUI, have just announced new exclusive tools and methodologies of CloudMove solution which enables the migration (modernization) of legacy Client/Server applications into a Web / Cloud / Mobile applications and the ability for SaaS. A simple 2-step process which allow in the first step to convert the code into .NET (Windows Forms or WinForms) and in the second one to transpose it to VWG, since its API mimics the WinForms API.

The free AssessmentTool is a simple windows .exe application which can be executed on the runtime assemblies of a WinForms application, from which it extracts detailed information regarding your project (technology statistics and usages). This information is by no mean a risk to your intellectual property according to the company as it collects technological information and statistics and not business logic analysis or algorithms capturing.

This tool is based on a wide database which is created progressively during the assessment process. After creating this database, some queries will run on it, searching for patterns and usages that are risky or requiring manual adjustments when running as VWG/Web. The results are aggregated as a readable report which indicates the relative portion of the application that can be reused automatically (as-is). In addition it provides more specific information on the parts that will require adjustments and manual intervention.

According to Gizmox, the majority of Window Form applications are expected to show 80% - 90% portion readiness for transposition and will not require manual adjustment. Below the press release :

Enterprise JavaScript : Google Launches JavaScript Cloud Scripting Language

2010-10-25T20:20:46Z

Google Apps Script is a new JavaScript enterprise technology to automate tasks across Google products. The new JavaScript cloud scripting language allow to automate repetitive business processes (e.g. expense approvals, time-sheet tracking, ticket management, order fulfillment�), link Google products with third party services (like sending custom emails and a calendar invitation to a list from MySQL database), create customer spreadsheet functions, and even build and collect user inputs through rich graphics interface and menus.

From the Google Enterprise Blog :

Your company can create a site for employees to browse and register for training sessions and career development programs. On the page describing each training session or class, you could add a �Register Now� button, which would automatically add registrants to the class roster, add the details of the session to each participant's Google Calendar, and email users to confirm enrollment. All of these automated actions can be driven by a script embedded in the site.

Overall you can do every simple and complex task based on data in any of your Google products. Google products supported so far are : Spreadsheets, Document list, Gmail Contacts, Finance, Calendar, Sites and Maps.

In addition to an infinite list of options and WebServices that could could be integrated using UiApp, JDBC, SOAP, XML, Languages Translator, Mail, � etc.

Can Ajax Give Linux a Better User Experience ?

2010-10-20T20:07:46Z

People who are not familiar with Linux always say that Linux User experience is terrefic ! Playing with command line, running patches, compiling packages, or looking around in the man is not always fun. However Ajax web-based interfaces become quickly in the last years very popular and provided an amazing user experience for the web, so why not for Linux ?

David Touzeau pointed me today to an interesting Open Source project he developed, called "Artica Postfix". The project is designed to offers Postfix, fetchmail, dnsmasq, LDAP, squid,samba, dansguardian features without technical skills through a web browser with a nice web interface. The main goal of this project is to provide Linux capabilities to people who do not have the time or skills to integrate a full Mail systems or Files sharing systems or Proxy systems.

Linux is now available to everybody, administration and integration of professional software for the enterprise is another story. The addition of products such as Postfix, LDAP, Cyrus, fetchmail, procmail, amavis, clamav, spamassassin ... is still an art.

PACKT 2010 Open Source Awards - JavaScript Libraries Finalists

2010-09-23T09:48:30Z

Packt open source awards is a yearly online event by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects. 6 categories for this year marked by the entrance of the "JavaScript Libraries" category which "is reserved for JavaScript libraries, libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities. ".

The judging panel for the JavaScript category include Michael Kimsal, Michael Mahemoff, Frank W. Zammetti, myself (Hatem Ben Yacoub), and of course You.

Nominations for the award have been closed since last week and voting will begin this Monday for the five top nominees in each category: Open Source CMS Award, Hall of Fame CMS, Most Promising Open Source Project, Open Source E-Commerce Applications, Open Source JavaScript Libraries, and Open Source Graphics Software.

The Awards are designed to encourage, support, recognize, and reward Open Source projects that have been selected by the panel of judges and visitors to packt website. There are $24,000 to win spread across six categories. So hard luck to everyone, and be sure to cast your vote this Monday !

Update : JavaScript Library finalists announced and vote is open :
* Dojo ToolKit
* Ext JS
* jQuery
* Mootools
* Rapha�lJS

dhtmlxScheduler v2.3 Released, Map View, Tooltips, Enhanced TimeLine View, and More

2010-09-03T01:07:45Z

DHTMLX announced the new update of dhtmlxScheduler, a JavaScript written Ajax calendar that allows developers to incorporate web-based interface for managing events and schedules. New version 2.3 introduces a number of enhancements and bug fixes, and makes the calendar more flexible and interactive.

The main new features include:

Integration with Google Maps - new Map View allows users to associate events with locations on Google Maps: users can specify a location in an event description or choose the desired location right on the map;

Visual improvements - TimeLine View, which simultaneously displays events for different resources (users, departments, etc), now has two new modes: tree mode to group events by events holder, and cell mode to fill an event�s cell with a specific color according to pre-defined rules;

Wazala, Ajax Online Store for your blog

2010-08-30T14:03:33Z

Wazala is an online application that adds an instant, elegant online store to any website or blog. All done WITHIN in as little as 15 minutes! With 15 languages and 23 currencies, Wazala allows the store owners to set up shop in multiple languages and leave the decision to their customers to choose the language to browse and purchase in. Even though it has been built with simplicity as its main goal, Wazala still manages to cover all the features needed to transform a site into a fully-functional store front and it does it beautifully!

An amazing new shopping experience that anybody can integrate easily into any existing website and start selling even digital good instantly. The service integrates only with Paypal and Google Checkout the two most widely used payment platforms for accepting credit cards and online payment for stores and ecommerce platforms, there is no alternative solution to pay directly with credit cards. The service is available free for 5 products, and paid account start from $9.95 for 25 products. More information and demo at www.wazala.com

GwebMail, Your Private Label Gmail

2010-08-30T13:20:32Z

GwebMail is a GMail like open source Webmail that you can run on your own server using PHP, MySQL and Ajax. It allows to connect to to any email server including Gmail servers and display the email content in a very similar layout to Gmail webmail. The solution aims to reproduce most Gmail features, however don't expect to find everything there. GwebMail is available free for up to 10 users, there is a $9.95 domain license with unilimited users and updates.

GwebMail features include :

IMAP support including SSL encryption (IMAPS)
Rich interface using AJAX technology
MIME Support including inline attachments
Internationalization support with UTF-8
MySQL storage for messages, settings and cache
Action Logs and reporting
Full branding and banner inclusion
Message filters allows you to setup rules that auto flag messages
Private Label, you are free to remove any copyright or link to gwebmail website
Different colors for different type of messages
Flag important messages with a Star to find them easyer
Fast searching using advanced criteria
Drafts and Sent folders
Labels with ability to hide
Rich HTML editor and fancy upload with progress bar
Autocomplete from AddressBook
Auto save to Drafts
Remove scripts from html messages for more security
Block remote images so nobody can track when you read them
Open links in a new window and block relative links
Display thumbnails for image attachments

You may check the online demo and download sources at http://www.gwebmail.net. Requires MySQL 5, PHP5 with imap, tidy, gd, sockets enabled, and Zend Optimizer for PHP, minimum version 3.3.

jQuery Mobile Project Announced

2010-08-15T21:01:01Z

The jQuery team have just announced jQuery Mobile Framework, a unified user interface system across all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. The project is under heavy development and is expected to be released later in this year. jQuery Mobile got already some very interesting sponsors as : Mozilla, Palm, and Filament Group.

Absolutely critical to us is that jQuery and the mobile UI framework that we're developing work across all major international mobile platforms (not just a few of the most popular platforms in North America). We've published a complete strategy overview detailing the work that we'e doing and a chart showing all the browsers that we�re going to support.

Great news for the mobile community to have an optimized cross-platform & cross-device jQuery mobile framework. The future is definitely around web mobile, and web mobile development is becoming really more fun with such amazing tools, and most probably in the future you will find jQuery already embedded in your mobile handset.