Yes, you might think the “ALL NEW!” stamp is kind of cheesy and the colors might be too bright, but that’s just how I’d like to announce the immediate availability of a preview version for conjoon 0.1 - in a very reserved way, of course.

conjoon V0.1RC1Pr935 is available from the conjoon project page and brings you a sneek peak of things to come. This release brings you

• system sounds
• configurable workbench, i.e. lots of drag & drop goodies
• a Twitter client with lots of features
• enhanced Youtube panel
• backend performance improvements (caching)
• Ext 3.0 to allow for a more stable, even faster responding UI
• Zend Framework 1.9.4 to allow for a more stable backend
• backend support for Ext.Direct-API (stacked requests, stacked responses)
• bug fixes, enhancements, and more…

There are some known issues with IE7/IE8 related to some user extensions that conjoon uses, that’s why I labeled the release as a preview and offer a “build” version only (i.e. no dev sources), but it’s fully functional in all other major browsers. Go grab your copy, it’s totally free. If you want to leave feedback, I’d be more than happy to welcome you in the conjoon forums!

The project home for Ext.ux.Livegrid has been finally moved - you can find it now at the official webpage www.ext-livegrid.com.
The prior project home will redirect you automatically to the new page - please update your bookmarks accordingly.

Connected with the new project home is a wiki/bugtracker which you will find at wiki.ext-livegrid.com

There is an interview about conjoon in the news area of the t3n magazine. You can read it here.

I answer several questions related to the development process and you will find out why I had a hard time figuring out a name for the project. It goes without saying that I recommend ExtJS and Zend Framework for your daily work as an app builder there, too.

Thanks to the yeebase team for  their interest in the software!

I’m excited to finally meet the Ext JS staff personally and tech-talk with the community members .

They offer an early registration discount for registering by the 10th of February, so make sure you subscribe today!

In the meantime, please use the address www.conjoon.de, which serves as our fallback domain.

(see: siteartwork.de on wordle.net)

While I’m sitting in the lobby and enjoying my coffee (and get rid of a slight hangover from a great Party here in the hotel last night) I thought it’d be time to dive into the workflow again for a short time, just for the sake of getting used to work again.

(I’ll skip the rants about too much work during the holidays, it looks like my roommates can’t stand the complaining anymore… )

I have moved the project home for the Ext.ux.Livegrid component to another location - it has its own dedicated webpage now:

http://www.ext-livegrid.com

 You’ll find a set of additional information about the component there, along with a wiki/bugtracker, which is located at

http://wiki.ext-livegrid.com

 Contents are being moved from one location to another slowly, so don’t expect to find everything there right now. Additionally, it’s important to mention that the component will no longer be hosted over at google code - Ext.ux.Livegrid has its own SVN Server now, too. Anonymous read access is granted at svn://svn.ext-livegrid.com:

svn checkout svn://svn.ext-livegrid.com

Make sure you get the latest version from there - google code will only host versions up to 0.3RC2 before the project is deleted from there somewhen in a few months.

I decided to publish a feature release first to simplify the setup of conjoon on virtual hosts. The next release is already in the pipeline and will smooth the way for the first release candidate.