Rich Waters

A colleague of mine, Shea Frederick, whipped up a really nice example integration of the Google Maps API and Ext JS. I had the chance to look at the demo a while back when there were some minor rendering issues, it appears that they’ve all been resolved and the result is really slick.

Check out the blog post for full details and code, or jump straight to the live example to play with it (don’t forget to pop up the extra windows by clicking on the buttons in the toolbar).

The best thing in my eyes is the GMapPanel component, which means that you can now include these Google maps anywhere in your layouts via the ‘gmappanel’ xtype.

So after my recent article playing around with Ext on the server side with Jaxer, I figured I would check out Aptana’s cloud platform so that I had a decent place to host and test my Jaxer apps.

They sent over the credentials and information to install the cloud eclipse plugin, every thing was dead simple and within a few minutes I had partitioned off a section of the cloud and deployed a simple Jaxer app that I had been playing around with. They did a nice job integrating the cloud infrastructure, syncing is a breeze and I’m looking forward to having some more time to play around with it.

When I get a chance this week I’ll toss up the Jaxer code from the examples I wrote for the Ext article and post the url.

I’m not one to normally do frivolous things like blog about blogging, but I spent a good deal of time playing around with Jaxer and wrote up an article on the Ext Blog. The article covers integrating an Ext Data Store with Jaxer, and a nice example of using Ext.XTemplate on the server. Check out the post for a lot more detail and a bunch of code.

It’s been a while since I’ve said anything about the progress of Ext.nd, Jack and I have been quite busy since Lotusphere. We’ve been on the verge of a new release for a while hope to have it tested and available soon.

As for the framework itself we’ve made some great progress lately. Jack has implemented a first pass at rendering categorized views and has done a lot of work to make them play nicely with a PagingToolbar. I’ve recently finished a large rewrite of the outline and view code to directly extend TreePanel and GridPanel. This change has allowed for much greater flexibility as we can now include domino components directly into an Ext layout via XType. The changes have allowed for some nice refactoring, leading to much cleaner code and increased performance.

Keep your eyes peeled, I’ll announce the release here and in the forums when it is available.

Twitter has actually been around for quite some time now. I even signed up for an account a long time ago and just never did anything with it. Now, with the rush of Twitter adoption through the Notes blogging community (TwitNotes, Ed Brill, Planet Lotus) I figured I may as well give it a try.

I’m not sure what I do and where I go is all that interesting, but you never know