Live Forms Software Unleashes the Power of Web 2.0 Applications with Built-In Business Capabilities

BRANFORD, Conn. - May 12, 2008 - frevvo, empowering businesses to create rich, dynamic Internet applications, today announced Live Forms™ software which enables users and developers to easily create rich AJAX forms with built-in business capabilities. Live Forms provides a complete Web-based design experience that can be quickly embedded into any application and is ideal for Enterprise Social Software companies, BPM/SOA vendors, Web hosting providers and solution providers.

Businesses are realizing the compelling attraction of not just moving old systems to the Web, but providing users with a collaborative, point-and-click design and run-time experience for putting together applications from simple, short-lived applications created by power users to meet immediate business needs to larger applications created by IT developers that work with SOA deployments. This is accelerating the trend towards Rich Internet Applications and Enterprise Social Software. However, the vast majority of business processes depend on forms. The need for rich, user-friendly tools to create business-savvy forms is a key aspect of unleashing the power of Web 2.0 within the enterprise.

"Given the chance, most people would love to solve business problems immediately," said Ashish Deshpande, CEO, frevvo. "Web 2.0 is supposed to empower these users. Forms are a key component of most business applications yet most products do not offer integrated forms-creation and management tools usable by ordinary business users. frevvo Live Forms is the easiest way to add rich, self-service forms capabilities to these products."

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Nitobi have just released Q2 version of its Complete UI solution for Ajax developers. Highlighted in this release the full Safari 3 support, in addition to a new hierarchical grid component and a variety of new themes. Below some of the new features :

• Dreamweaver extensions: New multi-component extensions make common use-cases like master-detail grids easier.
• TreeGrid: Introducing a new component that takes the best of Nitobi's Tree and Grid and combines them in a high-speed hierarchical Ajax datagrid.
• Support for Safari 3: All of our components now support Safari 3.
• Snazzy looking components: We've added a bunch of new themes with a variety of layout and color schemes. Check out the screenshot gallery for the new themes.

Nitobi Complete UI is available for J2EE, ASP.NET, PHP, Classic ASP, or Coldfusion MX. For a limited time, Complete UI is on sale for 15% off the regular price. You can read the complete press release here http://www.nitobi.com/news/?a=58.

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PhobosLab have just released the first stable 1.0 of Asaph, a new microblogging solution. Asaph focuses on collecting links and images from other pages. It allows you post content directly from any page you are on. Asaph is not a full blown blog and it does not aim to be one - it just does this one task, but it's pretty good at it.

You can watch the screencast (~5Mb) to see what Asaph looks like. The solution come with two predefined themes, require PHP5 and MySQL and is available for download under the terms of GPL v3. For more information check Asaph project's page.

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Last week we announced in exclusivity the new features of the Ajax RAD tool Morfik2. This week everyone can download the new version 2.0.0.63 of both M2 WebOS and Express Edition and get a look inside one of the very advanced Ajax tools. Robert Scoble had an interesting interview with Aram Mirkazemi, the CEO of Morfik, during the Web 2.0 Expo; you can watch the video here. You can download a 30-Day trial from morfik.com.

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Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA - Catalyst Resources, a leader in rapid application design and Backbase, the leading provider of enterprise software for creating AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), announce an alliance to provide an end-to-end design and development solution for rich Customer Engagement and Enterprise AJAX applications.

AJAX, already the leading technology for rapid development and deployment of Rich Internet Applications, is being adopted at an increasingly rapid pace by small and medium size businesses as well as large enterprises. But companies face a number of hurtles as they try to make this RIA transition. While it is easy to add in a few flashy widgets to a webpage, it requires a different level of expertise to enhance user experience with measurable business value and develop code that is scalable, high performance, and easily maintained.

The end-to-end design and development solution from Catalyst Resources and Backbase provides this expertise. It is designed to help organizations make better business decisions, get their new projects to market faster and significantly reduce the investment required to bring internal resources up to speed.

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Ext JS 2.1 have just released with a beta Ext GWT 1.0, in addition to an early preview of Ext JS 3.0. Most important change in my opinion is the licence that changed from LGPL to GPL v3, of course in a Dual Licensing Model. Now that the library is becoming more and more mature, it was time to move to a more efficient commercial model. So from today, you can use ExtJS in your open source project compatible with GPLv3, otherwise you have to buy a commercial license. Pricing start from $289 for single developer to $14,449 for enterprise having up to 100 developers.

New features in Ext JS 2.1 include :

- Slider : added support for vertical and horizontal orientation, incremental snapping, tooltips, custom styling and a lot more
- StatusBar : can now be rendered into any panel or window and include more interactivity of what's happening in the application
- Full REST Support
- New Grid Filtering sample
- New Layout Browser sample
- New Custom Drag & Drop

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The Earth Day from wikipedia is one of two different observances, both held annually during spring in the northern hemisphere, and autumn in the southern hemisphere. These are intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment. Google celebrated the Earth Day with a new original Doodle. Hope that we goes green not just on websites.

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The AFUP, Association Française des Utilisateurs de PHP, have just announced the upcoming conference "Forum PHP 2008". The two day conference will feature one technical day with the most advanced PHP techniques and a business day, with case studies and examples of successful projects.

Sessions from the best French speaking experts will include :

• How to manage a PHP project (tools, methods, ...)
• Insure code quality
• Internet and legal issues (intellectual property, ...)
• Build a business around
• PHP scalibility
• Connect services(web services)
• Rich User Interfaces (technology choice, implementation, ...)

Sessions will typically be 45 minutes long followed by a 10 minutes Q&A session and up to 3 hours for workshops. Use the form on the site to submit your session proposal.

Proposals will be reviewed after the deadline has passed. Additional information may be asked where needed. Proposals will be chosen according to their layout, relevancy for a professional audience and the overall homegeneity of the forum. Every candidate will be personnally notified of the status of their proposal. The decision is final. Priority will be given to sessions in French.

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Walter Poupore, Lead Programming Writer Microsoft adCenter API, have written a series of articles over the official Microsoft AdCenter API blog about using the AdCenter API from PHP. According to his blog posts, PHP samples in V5 will be released later by May 2008. Until that day, you can find some samples over the API Blog. Current samples include :

• How to Create Ad Groups in PHP (V5)
• How to Create Ads in PHP (V5)
• How to Create Keywords in PHP (V5)
• How to Submit an Ad Group for Approval in PHP (V5)
• How to Check the Status of an Ad Group in PHP (V5)

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Vikram Vaswani, Founder, Melonfire, have written an interesting article at IBM developerWorks on using the Youtube API with PHP. Notice that a PEAR package Services_YouTube is available if you are looking for a library to use Youtube API with PHP, but is alpha since 2006.

The article introduces the YouTube Data API, demonstrates how you can use it to browse user-generated video content; access video metadata, comments and responses; and perform keyword searches. The author used the power of SimpleXML to parse Youtube data and build customized PHP applications.

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Last month we started hearing reports about an Iframe injection that infected thousands of websites and servers. The malware in question is a variant of Zlob and attempt to install itself in the client-side throught an ActiveX, as an unsigned Real player control - reported McAfee Avert Labs.

There are details on how the malware try to infect clients, but not so much information on how servers have been infected. In March 2008, McAfee estimated that nearly 200,000 web pages have been found infected, most of them running phpBB.

Today Hostdepot sent a newsletter alerting that their servers are victims of the "iframe" attack and that they are working to resolve it. Many servers worldwide are still infected with this malware. phpBB was at the origin of the Perl/Santy.worm attack back in 2004, but the origin of the malware this time is still unknown.

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XpertDeploy is a Developer Application Deployment Tool that have just released today. A solution that helps developers and DB administrators to improve their application deployment and eliminiate wasted time. Below the press release :

SQL Interpreter Provides Uniform Method for Application Deployment

Georgetown, TX - April 17, 2008 - XpertDeploy, a leading provider of database developer and administrator productivity solutions, announced today the general availability of XpertDeploy™ For Oracle®.

"Tasks associated with deploying updates to our application or with a new application release costs our team 16 - 20 hours of unproductive time per month," said Tom Beggs, Vice President of Information Technology for a logistics software provider. "By using XpertDeploy™ For Oracle®, that wasted time was reduced to just 4 hours, saving us 12 - 16 hours. The system paid for itself the first month".

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Morfik revealed today Morfik M2, a major update of the RAD toolkit for the web. With this release Morfik made two products announcements in one: Morfik Express and Morfik WebOS. The Express edition aims to help developers create Ajax front-end for the web that can connect to any server-side technology such as PHP, ASP, Ruby … and using any standard protocol such as JSON, SOAP or REST. Morfik Express is ideal for established services that are looking to extend their functionalities or to provide a new rich user experience for platforms such as Google widgets, Facebook, Hi5, MySpace or SalesForce.com ...

New M2 project view

The WebOS edition focuses on the development of entire Ajax solutions: Server-side and Client-side. This gives to developers all the power of the Express edition combined with a server side technology in intranets or hosted cloud computing environment. Morfik WebOS is a very complete RAD solution for developers to conceptualize, design, build, test and deploy advanced Web 2.0 applications.

Morfik M2 comes with a completely new interface ala Office 2007 with a lot of improvements and new features; even the text editor has been improved and made easy to switch between text and visual edition. Below are more detailed features of M2 :

Zoom and filter in the project view

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Backbase released today a major update of their Enterprise Ajax framework. Major new featres and improvements have been added to the new release including :

- Lightweight Ajax Support (single-DOM)
- Data binding
- Adobe AIR support
- More widgets and redesigned skin
- Sample layouts
- Performance enhancements

With these new features Backbase Enterprise Ajax gave developers the choice to develop their Ajax apps. Developers can choose between rich and lightweight Ajax functionality, between CSS and XPath, between JavaScript and tag-based development, between JSON and XML, between native widgets and 3rd party widgets and between online and offline RIAs. More features details here, and you can see widgets demo in the widget explorer. Below the press release :

Backbase Releases Enterprise Ajax 4.2, Offering Developers “Choice”

Increases productivity with choice of technology and methodology for Ajax development

San Mateo, California, April, 16th, 2008. Today, Backbase, The Ajax CompanyTM, introduces Enterprise Ajax 4.2, a new version of the industry leading Ajax framework. This new release gives developers more choice than any other Ajax framework. Choice translates into unmatched productivity, as Ajax developers can choose their preferred technology and methodology.

Unlike most other Ajax solutions, the new Enterprise Ajax framework supports multiple development technologies methodologies: developers can choose between rich and lightweight Ajax functionality, between CSS and XPath, between JavaScript and tag-based development, between JSON and XML, between native widgets and 3rd party widgets and between online and offline RIAs.

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Springloops, web development platform for web developers, just released AJAX based Subversion changes viewer. The new version reduced their server power needs by 15%.

On the server side changes are only taken from version control system and sent to the browser where JavaScript do the job. It analyzes and renders the changes in a much more readable way. In addition to formats and style, the system also compares changes lines to mark inline changes. JavaScript here is not only to have some fancy effects but also to solve more complex problems like the Longest common subsequence

The service uses a mix between jQuery and YUI. JQuery is used for DOM Manipulation while YUI is used to manage browser history and for dates selection.

Springloops is a Subversion hosting service for web developers with very interesting features for such web sites deploy. You can take a tour to find out more about the service.

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