Laszlo IDE updated

The ultra-rad IDE from IBM for laszlo development has been updated. You can tell the folks at IBM are jazzed about Laszlo - and rightly so - especially it seems they are tracking along with updates to laszlo software. This is part of the Emerging Technologies Tool Kit.

Laszlo Standalone Demo 2

Here's a new Laszlo standalone demo for you. This one is significant in that I'm loading an image in "realtime" off of my server - it's not compiled into the swf file.
So you can see you can create SOLO laszlo that fetches content of the web, and doesnt
have to be compiled into the app ahead of time.

SVG Included in nightly builds of Firefox!!

This is huge-o-rama news! It's hard to get excited about yet another feature, blah, blah, but the possibilites for new kinds of interfaces, applications, etc. using this are pretty big.

Laszlo serverless demo source

Some folks asked me yesterday for the source of the laszlo widget you see below. And I'm happy to oblige. I've tried many ways to show the source here in the post, but alas, it's so easy to mangle the indenting with blogger, so here's a link.

First Laszlo 3.0 serverless demo

I took a few minutes to try creating a simple serverless demo in Openlaszlo 3.0. It's a simple thing, only 5 lines long, but significant nevertheless:

Firefly movie: Serenity

Whoop! I am extremely happy to see this out now. Go watch the trailer for the movie based on Firefly - one of the best Sci-Fi shows created in the past few years. And if you havent seen the TV series, go grab the DVD's. If you like sci-fi with brains, humor, and a bit of salt, you'll love Firefly.

OpenLaszlo 3.0 Released!

This is a great day for Rich Internet Applications. This is the first release of Laszlo having been fully Open Source'd and freed from the need to run your applications using the LPS (server) on your website. It's also the release that's benefitted from having been the platform they are working on for the Earthlink Email application - meaning all the bugfixing and other things they have had to do I'm sure to get that WebMail app working, has been folded into this release (I think ?)

Yes, I toot Laszlo's horn as often as I can. And so would you if you checked it out and saw just how plain fun it is to write applications using LZX. Blah blah blah. The only person who'll convince you of anything is yourself, and the only way to do that is to go download it and try out the demos and stuff.

Web App as a Web Service

Paul James talks about an article from Hugh Winkler regarding the idea that when you create a web based application, you should have web services built in at its core. This is something I'm taking seriously with my Online RPG...

Greasemonkey Compiler

There is a great extension for Firefox called Greasemonkey. Now, you can create scripts for greasemonkey and "compile" them yourself into redistributable XPI packages. Awesome!