Beer-for-bug contest

Ext Scheduler 1.8 is now available in beta (send me an email if want to help beta test it). Now we’re interested in finding as many bugs before the final 1.8 release, and therefore we have a small contest to announce: Beer for bug. As you might already have guessed, you can win beer for finding and reporting a bug. To try the new version, either go to the example page or sign up for a free trial here: http://ext-scheduler.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Rules:

1. Bugs found must be using the new Ext Scheduler 1.8 beta.
2. Bug reports must be submitted in our support forums and they must be informative, see here for guidance.
3. Bug reports must not have been reported previously.
4. Maximum 10 beers per person (more is not healthy) .
5. Beer is recoupable at SenchaDevCon in May 2011, or JsDay

Happy hunting!

/Mats

October Update

Here’s a short roundup of what’s been going on lately.

After the start-up in December last year, our customer base has been growing fast. We now serve around 150 customers in over 30 countries and thousands of developers have signed up to try our products so far. Our team has also grown recently as Göran Anderson joined us. Göran comes from a long background of industrial engineering and will handle our sales, legal and financial matters.

We hope you’ve been informed about the upcoming Sencha Conference in San Francisco in November. We’re excited to announce that Mats Bryntse will be presenting a session titled “Creating Ext JS Extensions and Components” on Tuesday November 16th. As far as we know, you can still register for the conference and if you’re going, we’d love to meet you.

Ext JS and Ext Scheduler/Gantt training now offered

We’ve received several requests for training and courses, both for Ext JS and our own products. We are happy to report that we can now offer you a two day introduction course to Ext JS, as well as a specialized Ext Scheduler/Gantt course. For more details, please see our training page.

What’s new with Ext Scheduler and Ext Gantt?

Here’s a brief list of the things that we’ve been busy doing lately:

• Release of Ext Scheduler v.1.7 (details).
• Release of Ext Gantt 1.1 (details).
• Release of Gxt Gantt 1.0 (examples).
• New examples have been added to our site, 25 in total (link).
• Print support for Ext Scheduler (alpha preview link).
• New “Hello world” screencast for Ext Scheduler.
• Some new customer testimonials have been added to our site, with screenshots of the implementations.

A look into the near future

Lots of interesting things are going on right now. Only a few months after it was first announced, Sencha Touch has quickly become a very popular platform. We have some exciting product ideas for ST that we will announce at a later stage. Additionally, here’s what you can expect in the coming months:

• Print support for Ext Gantt
• Tree support for Ext Scheduler
• Performance improvements including a new buffered view that will be able to display very large datasets
• Touch support for iOS devices (sneak preview video)
• A new learning area on our site with simple getting-started guides for our products.

If you like our products and want to help us by submitting a short testimonial for our testimonial page, please respond to this email and let us know. We would very much appreciate it!

Last but not least important, remember that the easiest way to keep yourself up to date is to follow us on Twitter or by joining our Facebook group.

Hope to see you in San Francisco!

New Scheduler examples

I recently created two new Ext Scheduler examples, one connecting to the RadioTime API and one connecting to the Meetup API. Thanks to the Ext data layer components, such as the ScriptTagProxy, doing this is super easy.

The first example visualizes radio station schedules using the RadioTime service. Their API is easy to work with and the implementation was a breeze. Here’s a link to the live example:
http://www.ext-scheduler.com/examples/radiotime/radiotime.html

The second example uses the Meetup API to visualize Ext JS user groups around the globe (currently 5 groups in US, Germany and Sweden). The Meetup API is very easy to work with and the implementation was even easier than the RadioTime examples. Here’s a link to the live example:
http://www.ext-scheduler.com/examples/meetup/meetup.html

General update

Long time no blog! San Francisco was a looooot of fun but now I’m back in Sweden finishing the followup product to the Ext Scheduler – the Ext Gantt:

You can try it out here: http://www.ext-scheduler.com/examples/ganttadvanced/gantt.html.

2010 is the year of Ext JS

I really think this will be the year when things go big for Ext JS. Some of the things which convince me of this: Unit-tested code base, Ext Designer, growing community, upcoming Ext Marketplace and Ext Test (cloud based testing tool). It also feels like the Ext community in Sweden is growing, the last Ext JS meetup in Malmö had 12 attendants which is a new record. I think Sweden is slowly catching up in using Ext for rich internet apps. Finally!!

Lastly, here are two things I look forward to this fall: The Silicon Valley Code Camp and the Ext JS Conference, both taking place in October as far as I know. I will attend both, if you are also going there let me know and let’s have a coffee, beer or both!

Pictures from latest Ext JS meetup in Palo Alto at Ext HQ

Here are some pictures from the latest Ext meetup in Palo Alto. This time we were actually at the Ext JS headquarters, which is not too bad . I had to leave early so these pictures are only from the first hour. For more pictures, check out Peter Kellners blog.

Most of the Ext guys were there, including Abe, Adam, Aaron, Tommy, David Davis and many more… Good times!

New UX – Ext.ux.grid.LockingGroupingGridView

I just posted a new UX into the examples section in the Ext JS forums: Ext.ux.grid.LockingGroupingGridView. This is actually just a combination of the behaviors of the LockingGridview UX and the regular GroupingView. The Ext Gantt component is based on this combination.

Check out the forum thread for more details on the UX.

First public beta of the Ext Gantt

Check it out here:

http://www.ext-scheduler.com/examples/ganttprebeta/gantt.html

Ext Gantt update

Just posted a new webcast on YouTube:

A brief summary of current features:

• Inline editing for most data fields as well as left/right labels
• Drag drop and resize
• Percentage indicator
• Dependencies
• Column width slider
• Fit to view
• Local filtering of tasks
• Context menu with several builtin options

If you have ideas of cool features that a high end gantt chart should have, please drop me a comment!

Great San Francisco JavaScript Meetup

Just got back from another great meetup here in San Francisco. This time it was the SF JavaScript meetup, more than 200 people had RSVPed yes and about 100+ showed up. Good pizza, great talks and nice people to summarize it all. Below are some photos, I did a 10 min talk about the Scheduler which was a lot of fun

Halleluja

Starting up the meetup

Great Ext JS meetup in SF with the Ext crew

Just got back from a nice meetup where about 8 Ext developers showed up. Pretty unexpected as this group normally doesn’t get more than 10-15 guys per meetup. We had hoped to get maybe 1-2 Ext devs to come to the meetup but getting 8 Ext devs is more than any meetup could hope for . Present were also some true Ext enthusiasts such as Peter Kellner (who also took the great pictures below), Emil Schutte, Allen Liu and Mark Erdmann – pretty sweet.

Very interesting things were on the agenda:

• Fresh Calendar widget, presented by Allen Liu
• Selenium testing with Ext JS, presented by Mark Erdmann
• ReadFresh.com which is a really cool site made by Emil Schutte.
• I gave a demo of the Ext Scheduler and the upcoming Ext Gantt
• Abe & Aaron talked about some of the upcoming Ext stuff in 2010 which is yet to be announced. VERY interesting I must say

Representing the Ext team were Abe (CEO), Aaron (Team Lead), Tommy Maintz, Ed Spencer and more

All in all a great night, next meetup will be hosted by Ext in their offices. You should really try to make it there!