Qrowd

Lately I’ve been spending some time enhancing the part editor with some conveniences for part developers. Now, the assembly can be executed directly from the part editor dialog, so that part implementation changes can be tested extremely fast. Coding is an iterative process, so it was critical to add this feature. Part developers […]

Significant new functionality was added to Qrowd last week, to provide for “part properties”. Beta testers who looked at the sample eBay Showcase widget before part properties existed saw that the part had over a dozen settings exposed in the wiring editor. About half of the settings were to feed the part with […]

Qrowd was built using the nightly builds of OpenLaszlo’s 4.x releases. OpenLaszlo’s 4.x releases are where the DHTML runtime was first introduced over a year ago. The 4.0.x releases until recently were pretty much disasters, in the sense that not only was DHTML not a viable runtime for serious application development, but the […]

Qrowd reached an important milestone today, with the launch of the private beta. Invitations have been sent to a select few people to begin the process of finding defects and gathering feedback to help make Qrowd a better system.
I am very happy to have reached this goal. Qrowd to date has been virtually […]

Happy New Year! 2007 was a great year, so I hope that will continue into 2008. Cooqy chugged along nicely in 2007, with more and more eBay merchants using the Cooqy showcase widgets to advertise their eBay inventory. 2007 was also busy with many interesting OpenLaszlo consulting projects…so much so that I […]

Any creative endeavor starts in a vacuum of nothingness with fear, uncertainty, and doubt about whether or not what is envisioned can actually be built.  Combined with the uncertainty of whether or not the creation will actually be useful and how it will be perceived by others, then you get a taste of what it […]

Having founded Cooqy in December 2005, choosing to use the letter “Q” again for my next startup seemed to be preordained. (Hopefully having the “Q” at the start of the word will prevent confusion with the letter “G”.) Cooqy was a self-imposed project to get myself familiar with Web 2.0 RIA technologies like […]