Moving Ext.ux.Livegrid project home
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:
You’ll find a set of additional information about the component there, along with a wiki/bugtracker, which is located at
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.
conjoon V0.1a3 available
conjoon V0.1a3 is available and comes with an installation wizard.
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.
conjoon V0.1a2 is public
conjoon V0.1a2 was released yesterday. The release was scheduled to be around noon - and luckily, we’ve made it.
This is a pre release - it does not contain an installation script but the setup process should be easy enough if you follow the steps described in the INSTALL file that comes with the release.
For a complete list of features visit http://www.conjoon.org/about/features
Please post your comments and suggestion at the conjoon forums.
Clearsilver egg for Python 2.5 (Windows)
Since conjoon uses Continuous Integration, I was happy to find out that there is a CI plugin for my favored project management tool trac: bitten lets you configure build scripts and comes with agents that poll the repository to invoke the creation of builds. Although the latest commit to bitten happened somewhen around October ‘08, it sems to do its job - unfortunately, only if you manage to get clearsilver installed. This shouldn’t be a problem on *nix machines, however, setting up this bugger on Windows lead to unexpected crashes on my dev system.
It took some time until I found this clearsilver egg:It worked right out of the box - just go to the trac admin panel and upload it as a plugin. No more crashes, and trac shows the pages related to bitten just fine.
Hello world, this is conjoon speaking…
Phew. A year of hard work lies behind me. In fact, if you count all the attempts in that it took me to finally publish a web based personal information manager (with the ambitions to become a groupware once), you can add a few:
I have seen frameworks come and go, I reinvented the wheel for libraries that already existed, but somehow did not fit my needs.
I evaluated Javascript libraries and couldn’t wait for the Zend Framework when it was announced back in 2006. But the right push was given me through the Ext JS library, developed by Jack Slocum. Never in my life have I seen such a thought-out js library with such smooth controls that it sometimes took my breath away when I recognized in which way this little piece of software makes use of complex design patterns.
I know what I’m speaking of, since I started my own little JS library back in 2002. I did not fail, however browser support was limited and the pain to get something working both in Mozilla 0.5 and IE5.5 could last days, if not weeks.
When the first download is available, you might take a look at the sources. A few left overs of the word “Intrabuild” may be shattered throughout the code, honoring my first steps with PHP and Javascript which I took 8 years ago. Though I’m taking care of moving all the code into its new namespace “com.conjoon”.
May all the good things, and only little of the bad things, have slipped into conjoon. As it may make your life as a developer a little less painful!
Happy coding
and welcome conjoon
Thorsten
