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Welcome back to some recent happenings in qooxdoo land. This time we'll concentrate on improved automated testing capabilities as well as promoting two cool qooxdoo-based solutions that were announced during the week. Simulator: Editing table cells ... [More] While it's been possible for quite a while to use the Simulator contrib to simulate a user editing table cell data, [...] [Less]

Howdy, all! Still bent on performance improvements and support for internal projects, this is what we have this week. Performance Optimizations One of the major goals for qooxdoo 1.1 is improving the overall performance of the framework. You can't ... [More] optimize what you can't measure. That's why we started by writing a little benchmark application called PerformanceRunner. It [...] [Less]

Open Source Days is one of the largest open source conferences, held in Copenhagen, Denmark on March 5-6, 2010. The website says: "It's your opportunity to meet, share, and learn from professional open source experts." Well, for you as a qooxdoo user it is not just about any open source experts. As Tobi Oetiker, of OSS [...]

Welcome back to another weekly status update. All good things come in threes Part 3 of the tutorial series is here, this time integrating communication features while utilizing qooxdoo's data binding layer. If you haven't, check out this tutorial. ... [More] Part Loading For the last two weeks we've been working on the part loader. The part loader is used to [...] [Less]

Greetings all, for another round-up of the most recent news bits in qooxdoo land. We are currently particularly focusing on performance topics, mostly concerning application start-up and run time behaviour, but also over the whole life cycle of an application. This will show in some of today's entries. To that end, we are also working [...]

After we created the application and the main window in the first tutorial part and finished the UI in the second, we will build the communication layer today. With that part the application should be ready to use. Pre-Evaluation First, we need to specify what's the data we need to transfer. For that, we need to take [...]

In the first part of the tutorial, we built a basic window for our target application, a twitter client. In the second part of the tutorial, we want to finish the UI of the application. So lets get started, we got a lot to do! I hope you remember the layout of the application we are [...]

The generator since long supports the -v command line switch. Turning this switch on will make the generator print out lots of messages and internal data while going through configurations and running jobs. This is one of the first and easiest means to inspect the workings of the generator as it proceeds, and has been [...]

This week we were rather busy with updating some of our hard/software infrastructure, refining the various responsibilities within the team (also in anticipation of Fabian's leave), and identifying and addressing topics of the upcoming releases. So ... [More] if you haven't already, make yourself familiar with the new series of tutorials that started this week, take comfort in [...] [Less]

After more than three years as full time qooxdoo developer I (Fabian) am going to leave 1&1 end of March. Looking back it is amazing how much qooxdoo has evolved. When I came to 1&1, the qooxdoo core team consisted only of Alex, Andreas, Sebastian and me. Today the qooxdoo team has eight full time [...]