Web developer is already under tremendous pressure from the patents, but it might get even worse with SOPA.
http://vimeo.com/31100268
Imagine the need to censor every user post on your site. Most of the web projects I’ve been involved with has the “website claims no responsibility for user content”. That won’t be the case anymore. Imagine if you as a webmaster could go to jail if user posts a copyrighted piece of information.
Agile Toolkit website will be unavailable for 24-hours to join Wikipedia in efforts to raise awareness on Jan 18th.
More about SOPA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
As we nearing our deadline fro 4.2 release a lot of cool features have been added into development branch of Agile Toolkit such as:
- Completely new “TMail” implementation
- Completely new “DB” implementation based on PDO
- Completely new “DSQL” implementation
- Completely new “Model” implementation
- Completely new SMlite implementation
- Improvements in Site Debugging
The new implementations are functionally compatible with the 4.1 branch, although the do offer a number of benefits. In this article, I’ll highlight some of the new features about the new component implementation.
Another important feature of all the new modules is that they are are under heavy automated testing from the very start.
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Agile Toolkit is Open for Business!
I am very pleased to announce that Agile Toolkit is finally ready to be used in your business applications. Not only the code-base, Learning guide and Documentation have matured over the last few months but we’ve got the resources to help you with your questions!
We are running $1.00 license sale. For just a single dollar you will get the following:
- Developing a closed-source application with Agile Toolkit
- Same business day email support
- Instant-messaging support (skype, gtalk)
- Your Code review, suggestions and hints
- Missing a feature? Request it an we’ll make it!
Monday morning the per-domain price will be back to $130, so spend the weekend wisely and get a few licenses for yourself and make sure your friends are in it too.
Click it before it’s too late: http://agiletoolkit.org/commercial/store
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For all of you who have tried version 4.0.3 and have been stuck with it for a while, now it’s the right time to upgrade. There are a lot of new features and I’ll try to quickly go over the ones which are most important.
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More and more pages are being added into a “Learning Agile Toolkit” book. The section explaining the fundamentals of Agile Toolkit is mostly complete:
http://new.agiletoolkit.org/learn/understand
The most recent addition was JavaScript chains section and Models section.
I now need your help with testing. It shouldn’t take too much time. I would love if you could test non-mysql database connectivity.
The test-suite is located in github, with public access:
Installation is straightforward, similar to https://github.com/agiletech/colubris/wiki/Installation in the configuration file you would need to add:
$config['pdo']=array(
'dsn'=>'mysql:host=localhost;dbname=project',
'user'=>'root',
'password'=>'root'
);
Instead of mysql you can use different database. Once you open it locally, you should see this:
I am combining the new module from experementall stuff and dblite and it turns out AWESOME. Parametric queries, sub-queries, cache, everything is done elegantly:
I will document it all properly as soon as the module is finished. Please report any errors right away. Other areas will be eventually added. Do not use new PDO driver for production yet. It will be made more compatible and more integrated with the rest of Agile Toolkit.
Sneak peak into 4.1 which is scheduled to be released this summer.
- New Theme. Your web application will look even sexier by default. We will also keep current “jui” theme. Both themes are using jQuery UI CSS framework and 960 grid system, but will also allow full-width applications.
- Possibly improved template parser. I’ve run couple of tests on real-life application. Agile Toolkit is quite fast. The component with takes most of the time is SMlite (our template parser). By rewriting it more efficiently we might be able to improve raw performance of applications. There are still few bugs to iron out. (If you are really good with regular expressions, please contact me, I could use some help!)
- Testing for the rest of us. Honestly, I think other testing suites for PHP suck. So we’ll have our own. Writing test scripts will be as easy as adding 5-line function. You will see a visual console right away which will automatically capture output, will save testing results into database with revisions and additional information, will allow to convert unit tests into speed-tests and memory consumption tests. It will also have some other nifty features.
- PDO support (although we will primarily support only MySQL)
- Model to SQL convertor.
- New add-on: Sexy password checker based on crack-lib. To add: $field->add(‘StrengthChecker’,null,’after_field’);
- New add-on: Infinite-add form
- New add-on: AJAX CRUD
- Filestore_Image: Support for image uploads, automates resize, crop and other management.
- SEO goodies: Simpler way to customize meta-tags
Many other enhancements, listed here: http://agiletoolkit.org/whatsnew or in github: https://github.com/atk4/atk4/commits/devel
As you probably know, Agile Toolkit is free to use if you are using it in Open-Source project. We plan to also offer it for free for personal, education and non-profit projects. We are also will be giving away commercial licenses to early adopters. If you are already using Agile Toolkit, get in touch with us for a free license.
As our launch draws closer, we will deploy community forum and other resources. Stay tuned by following or subscribing!
We have now completed moving everything on to new domain. Expect for http://demo.atk4.com/, but we would rather re-vise all the demos and put them more in-context. We have already started and our introduction is filled with with examples.
http://agiletoolkit.org/intro
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Unfortunately too many can’t remember or spell atk4, so we will be moving to a new domain:
www.agiletoolkit.org
We have been thinking about some new domain for the toolkit as well, but nothing comes to mind, so for time being we will leave it as “Agile Toolkit”. If you have a interesting idea – please share with me, I’d love to hear.
Also — we are looking to start a first courses in Dublin (on Saturdays) on the toolkit, so everyone who can attend — should attend. Courses will be free but I would expect some feedback in return. It would also give me more practice on teaching, so if you are willing to come — leave a note in the comments. I will announce the place on this blog once we secure the place.
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Agile Toolkit is a new — more efficient way way to build Web Software.
Agile Toolkit is a high-performance PHP framework for UI development with jQuery. High levels of efficiency are achieved because your database and your UI are seamlessly and securely integrated. You achieve more with less code
We are getting ready to unveil our new website for Agile Toolkit. A lot of things are still being written and added, but we decided to share it with readers of this blog.
http://new.atk4.com/
I would love to hear any feedback on the website or in general.
Get in Touch
We are trying to reserve a spot to talk on Bizcamp Newry. http://www.bizcampnewry.com/. This would be our first public talk / announcement. Please follow us on twitter for more updates: http://twitter.com/atk4
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