MarkLogic Corporation announced the availability of MarkLogic Express, a new MarkLogic 5 license that allows students and developers to download and take MarkLogic into production immediately. Additional updates include improvements to the developer website and more ways for MarkLogic developers to share solutions, participate in discussions, and help build a community around MarkLogic technology. MarkLogic Express includes geospatial capabilities, alerting, and can be used in production environments. That means a developer can take a MarkLogic implementation that leverages a 2 CPU node and up to 40 GB of data live. Full updates include: MarkLogic Express the new license that will allow developers to build and deploy MarkLogic production applications; Connecting Developers with a new Feedback Forum, comments enabled on nearly every page, and better recognition for community members that make contributions; A number of updates have been made to the MarkLogic Developer website, including new tutorials, new documentation, and improvements to the accessibility of content for developers; a new open source RESTful API that allows students and developers to build applications on MarkLogic using their software language of choice. http://www.marklogic.com/
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Facebook launched its HTML5 Resource Center to help developers build, test, and deploy new applications using the Web development language. The new resource center made its first appearance just two weeks after Facebook launched its HTML5-based Facebook Platform, which allows developers to use the social network as a platform to deploy mobile applications. The move also enables Facebook to build a marketplace for its own applications without needing an operating system of its own. To encourage developers to get started, Facebook has released three new HTML5 resources. The first is the aforementioned HTML5 Resource Center, which provides developers with tools and advice to build, test, and deploy Web apps. The resource center offers some tricks of the trade and includes some examples of how to use other Web standards such as CSS3 and Javascript to deliver rich experiences to websites. In addition, Facebook has launched an HTML5 Blog, which covers a wide array of HTML5 topics written by Facebook staff members and other industry experts. The final piece to the HTML5 puzzle is a new Developer Group, which Facebook will use as a venue for developers to raise questions and share insights with their colleagues. http://www.facebook.com
Sun Microsystems produced the first go-round of JavaFX late in 2008, it aimed to build a new declarative language for describing the front-end UI of an app. What developers needed at that time was a simpler, programmatic way to approach the contents of UIs. Oracle has remade Sun's JavaFX distributed apps platform into a version 2.0 with fundamental differences. The most prominent addition is a new Oracle language called FXML, different from the JavaFX Script in its handling of UI elements, but whose distinctions against XAML seem almost artificial. One of the advantages of FXML is that it is based on XML and is familiar to most developers, especially Web developers and developers using other RIA platforms. Another is that FXML is not a compiled language; you do not need to recompile the code to see the changes you make. A third advantage is that FXML makes it easier to see the structure of your application's scene graph. In version 2.0, Oracle has cast out the declarative-like portion of JavaFX Script (which lives on in an open source project called Visage), replacing it with FXML and adapting the remaining elements of JavaFX to load that FXML as separate resources. http://www.oracle.com/
Adobe has unveiled the public beta of new software, code-named “Muse”, that enables graphic and web designers to design and publish HTML websites without writing code or working within restrictive templates. Leveraging the latest Web standards, Muse combines design and creative freedom with frameworks for adding navigation, widgets and HTML for advanced interactivity on a website. Designers can add fully customizable interactive elements like slideshows, lightboxes, remote rollovers and more. Muse embeds HTML code snippets from sources including Google Maps, YouTube and Facebook and allows for the creation of Adobe‐hosted trial sites for testing and review purposes. A site can be sent to clients, converted to a paid Adobe‐hosted site or exported for FTP to other hosting providers. Muse is different from other Adobe web design products such as Dreamweaver, which requires coding to build websites; Edge, which is for creating HTML5 animations and motion-based graphics (not websites) or Flash Catalyst, a tool for designing internet applications built on Flex. http://muse.adobe.com
Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management company, has proposed to contribute its Content Repository technology (Nuxeo Core) to the Eclipse Foundation. The “Eclipse Enterprise Content Repository” project, if approved, will build on the initial contribution to deliver a modular and full-featured Content Repository technology, leveraging CMIS as main access protocol and API. The emergence of standardized content repository services is a logical evolution of the maturing content management technology market. Nuxeo is proposing this contribution to Eclipse in order to accelerate adoption of this content management technology, expand the developer community and to create an open source reference implementation for a content repository compliant with CMIS (the OASIS Content Management Interoperability Services) standard. The Enterprise Content Repository project will provide developers with a reference implementation for content repositories. The scope for ECR includes APIs (Java, REST), content management interoperability support via CMIS, and a wide range of content repository services. Nuxeo encourages additional participation from both the Eclipse and Nuxeo communities via the Eclipse Proposals Forum. http://www.nuxeo.com http://www.eclipse.org
The Document Foundation has announced the launch of LibreOffice 3.3, the first stable release of the opensource office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010, to over one hundred currently. The LibreOffice 3.3 release signifies: that the developer community has been able to build their own and independent process; due to a volume of new contributors being attracted into the project, the source code is undergoing a major clean-up to provide a better foundation for future development; the Windows installer has been integrated into a single build containing all language versions, thus reducing the download size from 75 to 11GB. The 10 most-popular new features among community members are: the ability to import and work with SVG files; an easy way to format title pages and their numbering in Writer; a more-helpful Navigator Tool for Writer; improved ergonomics in Calc for sheet and cell management; and Microsoft Works and Lotus Word Pro document import filters. In addition, many extensions are now bundled, providing PDF import, a slide-show presenter console, an improved report builder, and more. LibreOffice 3.3 also provides all the new features of OpenOffice.org 3.3, such as new custom properties handling; embedding of standard PDF fonts in PDF documents; new Liberation Narrow font; increased document protection in Writer and Calc; auto decimal digits for "General" format in Calc; 1 million rows in a spreadsheet; new options for CSV import in Calc; insert drawing objects in Charts; hierarchical axis labels for Charts; improved slide layout handling in Impress; a new easier-to-use print interface; more options for changing case; and colored sheet tabs in Calc. Several of these new features were contributed by members of the LibreOffice team prior to the formation of The Document Foundation. LibreOffice hackers will be meeting at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 5 and 6, and will be presenting their work during a one-day workshop on February 6, with speeches and hacking sessions coordinated by several members of the project. http://www.documentfoundation.org
Adobe has released a series of tools designed to expedite digital publishing across various platforms. Digital Publishing Suite allows publishers to upload articles directly from InDesign CS5, and supports PDF and HTML5. The software can run on RIM's PlayBook, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, Apple's iPad and forthcoming Android platforms. The software allows dynamic user control of online publications, and readers are able to resize pages and move content around to suit their needs. Graphics, video and audio content can be built into the publications. The full version of Digital Publishing Suite will be available next year for a $699 licence fee, but beta code is now available from Adobe. http://www.adobe.com/
Moving closer to a final release, the Tiki Community has announced the immediate availability of Tiki 6.0 beta 2, which can be found on Source Forge. Since the release of Tiki 6 Beta 1, there have been more than 200 code changes, enhancements, and bug fixes. Tiki administrators are reminded that this is a beta version and is not intended to be used in a production environment. Over 47 changes have been listed for Tiki 6, with the final release slated for release by the end of October 2010. http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki6
Percussion Software, the Web Content Management (WCM) vendor, announced the immediate availability of CM1, a new web content management system for organizations to create, deploy, and maintain sophisticated websites with no development required. Percussion CM1 is intended for marketing teams who don’t have access to development resources but still want to quickly build and manage highly interactive, social, scalable websites and open up content contribution to users across their organizations. CM1 replaces complex development with a drag-and-drop interface, not only for contributors, but also for website designers and administrators. With CM1, business users can: Create and modify page templates by simply dragging and dropping regions onto pages; Use a library of widgets to add functionality and interactivity to pages; Leverage in-context (WYSIWYG) or form-based content editors to allow any user to easily add content; Reuse content assets across their website; Integrate social media content from sources such as Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Facebook with a few clicks; Create SEO-friendly pages and clean URLs; Preview and stage content before it goes live; Control workflows and tiered user administration; and manage an unlimited number of websites from within the same system. CM1 is based on Percussion’s enterprise platform, CM System. http://www.percussion.com/
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