10.17.07
Posted on October 17th, 2007 in Development by benshine
If you are running on top of OpenLaszlo RingDing (aka 4.1.x, aka trunk), there is a new feature in the Debugger to help with bug reports. If you encounter a bug that prints a message in the debugger and you believe it is an OpenLaszlo bug, take the following steps to generate a bug report:
1. Enable Backtrace in the developer console
2. Provoke the error
3. Click on the debugger message to `inspect` it
4. Invoke `Debug.bugReport()` in the debugger
5. Copy and Paste the output into your bug report
The bug report gives details of the exact build of OpenLaszlo that you are reporting on, the detailed error message, backtrace, and the details of all objects involved.
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Posted on October 17th, 2007 in General, Sightings by Raju Bitter
Keiji Ono promised to send us a report on the OpenLaszlo seminar held in Japan by Net8. I asked him for some screen shots of the Japanese OpenLaszlo applications they featured in the seminar and was very happy to get a mail today containing the screen shots and a lengthy sum up of the event. Here’s a translation of the original report available in Japanese (≪net8主催≫OpenLaszlo事例紹介セミナー 〜OpenLaszloはどこで使われている？) on the Net8 website:
Net8 held a seminar to introduce real world applications and systems built with OpenLaszlo on October 12 in Tokyo Japan. We have been holding some introductionary seminars on OpenLaszlo before, but never one showing real word examples of applications deployed in Japan. So this was a premiere. The purpose of the seminar was to show members of enterprise IT departments where and how OpenLaszlo applications are used, based on real world examples . The Sun Microsystems Japan office in Tokyo hosted the event. Thank you to Sun Microsystems for their corporation. And also we did not forget about the help we received from Laszlo Systems, thank you so much.
The seminar contained three sessions with over 60 participants. Net8 is providing wide variety OpenLaszlo support services for enterprise customers who are using OpenLaszlo, and we are also working on making OpenLaszlo more popular in Japan.
The first application presented was a monitoring and operation system of a river gate from Aizunk. The system is used for flood defense of a river. The following screen shot is a visualization of the gate control. Whenever an operator sends a command from the controller, the gate was blinking on it, meaning that the gate was going up or down. The graphics of the facilities are created using a paint tool ( like PhotoShop ) and then used as as background picture. Components like comboboxes, text, and view of the gate are then put on top the picture. According to Aizyunk the reason why they chose OpenLaszlo was the fact that they had to come up with an event driven control application. And OpenLaszlo was the best choice for that.
The second session introduced a group ware application from Doinet. Doinet is working on an OpenLaszlo based version of their group ware product which they had previously built with Curl. They had introduced the Curl version of it into Nagasaki prefectural government. But the cause of the license fee, they were remaking it with OpenLaszlo. The application is a typical RIA application that has no paging and supports drag&drop and other functions. Especially the custom components they built proviced them a better performance than the standard OpenLaszlo component. The custom components became a characteristic of their product. Doinet said that they are going to polish the design and performance of the application before the final release.
The last session featured consumer contents from Recruit. Recruit is the one of the typical corporations in the field of human resource solution business in Japan. The name of solution they showed us is Jin-Miyaku-Bank, which centers around human networks. Based on the contents entered into the system it can analyze member’s human relations into from various angles, and it could show with radar chart based on graduated from the same school, relation of inside company, relation of outside company, etc. A view of the structural proportion by industry, by age or by business - based on the profile data - can be generated as well. The system can be used to analyzed what human network you have. OpenLaszlo was used in all the analyzing page. The system is very unique in a way, looking like an evolution of SNS.
The seminar of this time, we could show some real system of using graphics, for enterprise and for consumer . They were hight-quality IT system and they were the best system that show the characteristic of OpenLaszlo. We were thinking it was a great time. So we would like to keep working to introduce OpenLaszlo into Japan.
Thanks to Keiji and his team for this great report. It’s hard to track the OpenLaszlo applications deployed around the world. We have seen a lot of activity in Japan but don’t have a good understanding of what kind of applications are being deployed there. This report definitely helps to get a better understanding of the situation of OpenLaszlo in Japan. Great work, Keiji!
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10.16.07
Posted on October 16th, 2007 in General, Sightings, Community by Raju Bitter
It doesn’t happen too often that people inform me of OpenLaszlo applications they have been building. But this week I got a nice mail from Srini, who’s working for Media Lasso. Here’s what Srini wrote me:
We at threemany.com have been using OpenLaszlo for the past year to develop our product. Threemany.com is a website for separated and extended families to stay in touch using FREE video messages.
That’s a cool idea. I always thought it would be great to have a kind of digital wall implemented with OpenLaszlo, leaving video messages and sharing images and text messages. The site is still beta, but Video recording, creating an image gallery with a Flash based file upload and leaving text messages worked perfectly. I even tested Unicode support for the text messages, entering some German special chars, Korean and Chinese into a message - it worked fine.
What was the motivation for the Threemany team to come up with such an application? The ThreeMany blog has some information on this:
We started Threemany to solve a problem that we all faced. The founders and the crew here have friends and family around the country as well as in different parts of the world. Given our busy lives with kids and work et al, and the timezone differences — it is very hard for us to keep in touch with email and phones and all and especially difficult for our kids to stay in touch with their cousins our friend’s kids.
The beta of ThreeMany looks very promising, I bet ThreeMany is using Red5 for the video recording and streaming feature. Thanks for reporting this application to the OpenLaszlo team. We are always delighted to see what you people are doing with OpenLaszlo.
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10.15.07
Posted on October 15th, 2007 in General, Sightings by Raju Bitter
Vodafone just launched a new website in Hungary featuring a great OpenLaszlo application. The site’s mobile phone finder has been built using OpenLaszlo. The finder app as well as the whole website was created by Hungarian company Sandmark Solutions.
The application offers an optional mini tutorial showing the functionality, which can be selected right after start-up. Initially all phones are displayed and based on the selection the user makes phones are faded out or in with a fancy layout animation. You can add up to three phones to a comparison box and display a detailed view by clicking on a phone. If only it would be easier to guess what those Hungarians words mean…
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Posted on October 15th, 2007 in General, Community by Raju Bitter
Have you taken a look at OpenLaszlo.jp recently? Hiroaki Kuze and Keiji Ono from Net8 have been working hard to make OpenLaszlo better known in Japan. In that process they relaunched the OpenLaszlo.jp website. The site features a neat banner application running in both DHTML/Ajax and SWF/Flash mode.
Two weeks ago I had the chance to chat with Keiji. We had an interesting discussion about the situation for RIA technology in Japan. I’ll do an interview with Keiji on exactly that topic for the OpenLaszlo weblog which will appear hear within the next weeks. Net8 just a held an OpenLaszlo seminar last week with 50 people attending.
I did a test run with the DHTML/Ajax application on iPhone and the iPod Touch. The animation isn’t as fluid as on a PC but still looks impressive. The Japanese characters are displayed correctly.
Thanks to Keiji, Horioaki and everyone else involved with the relaunch of the website. Japan has one of the oldest OpenLaszlo communities world wide and with your support the community will keep growing. I just hope that I’ll get a chance to meet the Japanese community members in the near future.
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10.03.07
Posted on October 3rd, 2007 in General, Announcements, Community by Raju Bitter
We are happy to announce the first European OpenLaszlo meeting which will be held in Amsterdam, Netherlands on November 16-18 2007. We invite all developer interested in OpenLaszlo or already working with OpenLaszlo in Europe and around the world to join us for this meeting.
All information around the meeting can be found in the OpenLaszlo Europe group at groups.google.com/group/openlaszlo-europe. If you plan to attend the meeting, please add your name to this page (you need to join the OpenLaszlo Europe group to make changes to the page).
On Saturday there will be room for presentations, and hand-on sessions with LZX coding will held on Sunday. Looking for socializing and schmoozing? Amsterdam will offer us enough opportunities to go out and have some fun on Friday and Saturday evening. If you have any questions around the OpenLaszlo community meeting, just post them in the OpenLaszlo Europe Google group. I’m really looking foward to meeting many of our community members in Amsterdam. Van harte welkom!
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