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All along the Twitter tutorials you were using the qooxdoo tool chain  casually along the way. Now it's about time to take a more systematical look. The main interface to invoke the tool chain is the generate.py script that is part of every skeleton, often colloquially referred to as "the generator". In each qooxdoo library or [...]

We've added an experimental new skeleton type to the framework. It addresses applications that target run times outside the browser, namely Rhino and Node.js. Its working title is "basic", which has nothing to do with the complexity or relevance of the potential applications. It just refers to the basic elements of qooxdoo that are used [...]

The compile cache is one of the main means to improve build performance of the generator. Among other things, like optimized versions of qooxdoo classes, it contains information about the dependency relations between them. Dependency analysis is also ... [More] one of the most time-consuming activities of the generator. That means: The more you can re-use of this [...] [Less]

Up comes the next activity report. Mobile Framework: New CheckBox Widget & PhoneGap One of the important form elements that was missing in the mobile widget set was the CheckBox. We are always trying hard to keep the API of the mobile widgets close to their RIA counterpart, so the usage of the new CheckBox will be [...]

Tutorial: Virtual List This time we will have a look at the virtual widget stuff. The plan is to remove the normal List and use the virtual List. Using the virtual list has a big advantage when we have to render a huge count of items. The virtual list only creates widgets for visible items. This saves [...]

In this tutorial, we'll be taking a closer look at qooxdoo's integrated unit testing framework. Armed with this new knowledge, we'll then define a few unit tests for the twitter application created in previous tutorials, generate the test runner ... [More] application, and watch the tests in action. As usual, the code can be found on GitHub. Background qooxdoo's [...] [Less]

Here comes another weekly activity report. qooxdoo 1.4.1 released Most likely you have heard about the recent release of qooxdoo 1.4.1 already: Use this latest stable release for creating any new apps, and as a drop-in replacement in your existing ... [More] 1.4-based apps. Generator Optimizations The optimization configuration of the generator (compile-options/code/optimize) has been extended with two new value keys, [...] [Less]

A new latest stable release is available: qooxdoo 1.4.1. It resolves a specific set of issues of the previous qooxdoo 1.4 release. Being a patch release qooxdoo 1.4.1 can be used as a drop-in replacement for qooxdoo 1.4. No migration steps in your apps are required. So feel free to download it and use it [...]

Despite Friday the 13th, here is some good news about the last working week. From Web Fonts to node.js During the week there have been two individual blog posts, one about leveraging web fonts, the other one about deployment on node.js. Together they ... [More] also show what a modern and universal JavaScript framework qooxdoo is: from stylish typography [...] [Less]

Just a little notice for all of you having fun and success with node.js, likely the most popular JavaScript runtime not being a browser. Some of you already know that qooxdoo's OO layer (called "qxoo") does work great on node.js and gets updated and published every week together with our devel demos. If you didn't [...]