In just about 12 months since the first public release in Feb 2011, Agile Toolkit now have thousands of users worldwide (with no paid advertising). We’ve came the long way in 2011 and there is an exciting way ahead in 2012.
I have asked few people in London, who was up to help me out with Screencasts. Few people responded who have some ideas they wanted to implement in Agile Toolkit. I was able to help them and recorded our sessions. I now have 8 hours of screencast footage, which I’ll be releasing to youtube.
Subscribe to my channel on YouTube to see the screencasts as soon as I publish them.
The first 6 one-hour sessions is about creating a simple Task Manager. Many thanks to Maurizio for his participations.
If you’ve got Skype and great idea for Agile Toolkit we could help each-other. I can help you move forward with your idea and I would get a material for a new screencast session. Please use contact form to send me your ideas.
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:
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
Over the decade now web developers had to constantly evolve and learn more and more skills. The basic knowledge of HTML and the server-side language (such as PHP) is no longer sufficient. Expectations for web applications grow and Web Developers need to know CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, SQL as wall as many other libraries and frameworks – jQuery, CSS Frameworks, PHP Frameworks.
How do we turn it over and make things easier? Answer is — PHP UI Framework.
Thanks to all for your reports of my spelling messages across documentation. Here is how you can help. You would need a GitHub account.
https://github.com/atk4/atk4-web
Click on “Fork” button. This will create your own copy of agile toolkit website. Next in file browser:
When you are finished, click to the button “Pull Request” next to the fork button.
That’s all! Thanks for your time and desire to help me out.
Agile Toolkit now includes the ability to put all it’s PHP classes into a single file. This way you would only need to distribute one file along with your application.
Bundle would only contain classes from “atk4″, so add-ons will not be bundled. Clever minds should be able to extend the bundler to pack add-ons they require along with their own classes.
As a result, you can have all your PHP in one or two classes. To create the bundle you need most recent copy of Agile Toolkit (4.1.1+ would do) and Unix shell. Execute:
./atk4/tools/mkbundle.sh
Will produce atk4/atk4-bundle.php and also atk4/atk4-bundle.min.php. Replace your include for atk4/loader.php for ‘atk4/atk-bundle.php’ and everything should continue to work. You can then remove atk4/lib.
Please note that Agile Toolkit contains images, styles and JavaScript files which are not minified by this process.
With increasing popularity of Agile Toolkit, I’m getting more requests from volunteers and people who want to actively learn it. While forum and community portal is still in our short-term plans, we are now using chat.stackoverflow.com for daily communication.
http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/2966/agile-toolkit-atk4
You would need to register with stack overflow and get some reputation if you want to chat, so be sure to ask a couple of “atk4″ questions (or answers) http://stackoverflow.com/tags/atk4
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.
Whenever I come over object-oriented tutorial or a book, it always uses either Java or C++. I have never found this a big problem, but there are many people out there, who are NOT familiar with those languages and can never find a good tutorial to Object Oriented Programming.
Another problem is that PHP has no built-in interface with the user. You need to generate HTML and it’s not easy to do so, that’s why it makes any object-oriented examples useless or silly.
I want to give you the PROPER example of a good object-oriented paradigms in PHP language. At the end I will explain how this Geometrical universe can be used for Web Software programming:
Please take a moment to fill out our 10-question survey about Web Frameworks in your company.
