Our progress in 2011

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.

How did we start?

Agile Toolkit 4.0.1 was publicly released about a year ago, in early 2011. It came with a brand new homepage, which by the middle of February was looking like this: http://old.agiletoolkit.org/ (Enjoy this older snapshot, I might remove it later).

The important point here is that Until February 2011 there were about 5-10 developer who knew Agile Toolkit. It hasn’t been a year but we now have thousands of installations across the world and we have very stable 4.1.3 and are working on 4.2. Back in February the whole community management deal was very new to me and I still think  we could use more active supporters.

At the start of the year, I knew of just a few cases where Agile Toolkit was used outside of our company and now there are lots of projects in development such as Support Ticket systems, Project management, Accounting systems, Payroll, Cloud Control Interfaces, Skill testing, Graphing and Plotting UI, Political discussion websites, Application Store Management System, Game statistics tracking, Racing database and even for an interface for ordering Salad from local cafeteria.

Lately we have been working further to commit back code and start several open-source project including Agile Content Management System, Agile Cart/Checkout, Generic Membership website, Project development collaboration platform (Colubris).

What Users Say?

Here is some of our user feedback I’ve collected:

Thanks. I think you have done an incredible project. With some more documentation it will overtake some big and hard to learn frameworks. [Jaume]

I am quite curious about atk4. I ran into AModules3 a few years back and was intrigued but did not have the time to do anything with it. I now ran into ATK and realized it is fact based on AModules3! I am taking a better look now. [skip] Cheers for what looks very promising! [Dominic]

Hi, I’m a simple php developer from Montevideo Uruguay.I’m in the process of adopt a PHP framework and are very Impressed with ATK, It’s really very simple to learn (for me) compared with other frameworks thath I have tried (zend, symfony, cake). [Alejandro]

This framework is very promising. We’re going to try it in a internal project initially and then if succesfull we will integrate it in our products. [Ivan]

Looks very interesting on first look through, anything that makes UI development/intigration more streamlined is welcome [Dave]

This framework looks solid and extremely sophisticated yet simple at what it does! [?]

Geez! How powerful is ATK, and getting even stronger! Thumbs up guys! Congrats.Hoping to become familiar with the toolkit and start using it as my best tool. [Fernando]

This is Babu…. your technology seems to be awesome and very efficient one.It would be more better for me if there is any complete reference materials for this technology because i am working in a project using this framework. [Babu]

I just checked the presentation .. and I can say WOW! indeed looks very promising and powerfull. I also am checkign the new demos. Very good impression! [Svetlozar]

Congratulations! I am glad, framework keeps on growing. With a lot of interest now I am going to check atk4.com looking for new things =) [Kirill]

My Wish for New Year

For the new year I wish that Agile Toolkit would simplify a daily life of as many web developers as our word of mouth could reach.

Happy New Year Everyone!