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eXebeche and Nenvy team up for new iPad editor

Beautiful syntax highlighting for many languages.

Customize the look and feel with your favorite fonts and colors. Edit your themes and import/export (coming soon)

Transfer files to and from the app with a built in web server (requires a Wi-Fi network). Transfer a Zip archive and unzip it from the app.
Our keyboard provides useful often-used keys for easy access and quick typing. You can also use Apple’s Keyboard dock or pair a bluetooth keyboard
The files are auto-saved for you. You can take snapshots of your files and revert back in any time.

Immediate Plans

for i is in version 1.0. We have many plans for the immediate and long-term future. Bear with us.
Code Completion – We dropped this essential feature right before launch due to some serious bugs. We consider it crucial to for i‘s success and we will have it back in no time.
Better Indentation Handling – right now we default to only parse tab characters. We’ll have more options plus better language-dependant parsing (currently, only c-derivited languages have proper handling).
Symbol Selector – To allow you to navigate functions/symbols with ease.
Regualr Expressions Search.

Long Term Plans

Ability to open XCode and Visual Studio pr

ojects, Git integration, impo

rt of TextMate bundles (without the shell commands, of course), building projects through distcc servers, MSDN and ADC documentation integration – they’re all coming to for i.
Let us know about anything we forgot.

Doing some fun proposal work

Ahhh… Sometimes it feels good to do something off the charts.

Grant it, this will help bring business and possibly enhance the written proposal… but hey, to me, it’s different from web development and it’s fun

This image above is straight forward. I wanted to indicate that by moving their strategy application to the web, we are able to take ALL their existing data from all sorts of existing data sources and move them into one.

Nenvy is all about HTML and standards

So of course, lets dive right into making this application concept really cool by adding the capability to view, edit, and use the application from any device in the world.

That’s right, we want iPhone, blackberry, android, and windows phone seven users to experience this application as well.

Microsoft Webpages, Razor, Web Matrix – Our new favorite platform?

What is Web Matrix

Web Matrix is a new IDE/product from the Microsoft Dev team. This IDE isn’t your ordinary Microsoft “Over Done” product. In fact, It’s really quite the opposite. I personally am so impressed with the beta of this product that I will continue to use this indefinitely (or until someone tries to one-up this).

IDE for those who don’t know is short for Internal Development Enviroment. There are many IDE’s out there today. Including Visual Studio’s (also by Microsoft), Eclipse, Dream weaver, and many others.

What’s so different?

Web Matrix introduces RAZOR: A standalone view engine for either Microsoft’s C# or VB. This engine takes the best of the web today by providing essential functions to do some of the most boring tasks – like: Image Manipulation, Simple Authentication, Cookie Handling, Clean “Smart” URLs,  and much more. Aside from making things easier it also takes a PHP-like approach to web development. Pages can refresh with out a compiler, pages can be included into other pages like SSI allows Apache to do. Easy to learn coding including full support for C# and VB within any page.

Web Matrix introduces SQL Compact: A super lightweight version of SQL Server Database that does just what it sounds like. Relationships, Stored Procedures, and very portable. SQL Compact files can be shared on the file server like xml or json can. This makes creating collaboration easy!

Web Matrix introduces IIS Express: A small quick “server” that replicates all the “web” parts that IIS7 offers to .Net applications. Its portable and can be run straight from the Web Matrix Application.

Web Matrix introduces Web Helpers: Web Helpers are functions built to extend RAZOR. This api allows for developers to create strong DLL or .CS files that capture the DRY intentions of OOP. Creating date pickers or any front end coolness can be tied directly to Web Helps.

Example:

@Twitter.Search("Zettersten")

This is an example web helper where Twitter is the Helper name and Search is a function of  Twitter. There are endless possibilities to this model of programming. I love it!

Why use it?

Its fast, its light weight, it gives FULL markup control, it is supported heavily by Microsoft (so you know it will grow), its a way to get away from Web Forms!

Nenvy Designers User Experience Techniques

User experience design incorporates most or all of the above disciplines to positively impact the overall experience a person has with a particular interactive system, and its provider. User experience design most frequently defines a sequence of interactions between a user (individual person) and a system, virtual or physical, designed to meet or support user needs and goals, primarily, while also satisfying systems requirements and organizational objectives.

Typical outputs include:

  • Site Audit (usability study of existing assets)
  • Flows and Navigation Maps
  • User stories or Scenarios
  • Persona (Fictitious users to act out the scenarios)
  • Site Maps and Content Inventory
  • Wireframes (screen blueprints or storyboards)
  • Prototypes (For interactive or in-the-mind simulation)
  • Written specifications (describing the behavior or design)
  • Graphic mockups (Precise visual of the expected end result)

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Mozilla to incorporate corporate friendly features in Firefox 4

Mozilla to incorporate `corporate friendly` features in Firefox, that gives
corporate administrators the controls they (or company policy)
requires in order to replace IE within enterprises.

One of the items that has been discussed in the past is the
deprecation of the

global-install option

I really hope that the developers do NOT deprecate this feature. Global Install allows an
administrator to insure that a specified group of addons (two
excellent examples are `No Script` and `Ad Blocker Plus`) can not be
disabled or removed by the user. Remember, here we are NOT speaking of
a personally owned computer, but a computer that an enterprise
employee uses as part of their job. It is within a company’s right to
specify how that computer gets configured.

I would agree with being able to schedule updates to both the Firefox
executable, and the installed addons on a more `corporate friendly`
basis. It is a time killer when Firefox goes out and does the update
check when someone is trying to use it. Perhaps some kind of `WSUS`
type of environment can be created.

I really do see the potential for Firefox to make further incursions
on IE territory

but it has to be a better corporate partner. BTW,
just to point out, I am creating this entry on Firefox 4b3pre with the
Tab Candy features. I really want to dislodge IE in the office. I find
it that wretched!!!

HTML Compression reduces load time

Yes, by 50%

All I can say is that HTML compression surely reduces file size by almost 50%. Why does no one use it? Why do I get the feeling that a browsers parser will have to spend more time sifting through tightly knit HTML elements…

Definitely to be continued….

Minimalism in Firefox 4.0?

Firefox 4.0 is a revolution to all Firefox users and fans.

It’s sleek feel, clean look, and speedy performance makes it out to be one of the
best browsers on the market. Surely putting Internet Explorer, Opera,
and even (in my opinion) Safari to shame!

That leaves the all new, very cool, Google Chrome. A lot of people
enjoy Chrome. its very fast, its really easy to create addon’s (even
as a client side developer), and the screen real estate is unbeatable.

Which brings the discussion to: Minimalism in Firefox 4.0 Beta 1.

Being minimalistic doesn’t mean removing features or cutting back on
anything. In fact, it’s actually quite the opposite. Again as an
example. Google Chrome does a great job of being minimalistic. It’s
subtle blue to white gradient and its absolutely empty “menu” area
will steers users directly to the content. Another example – Chrome’s
status bar doesn’t exist because users don’t need to see it when it’s
not needed. Hovering a link will fade the status bar in.

CBPET Version 2 in the works!

Keep watching!

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