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This is a very thought-provoking video. How will we cope with the challenges of tomorrow?

We have just released an updated version of the PMAP demo that is now compatible with Morfik 2.1. This contains a full version of the Tree control.

Please visit the request demo site to get your copy!

Morfik 2.1, a long anticipated release, is out! This promises to be a game changing release in many aspects, especailly custom controls and lego-like building-blocks application development. I’m checking out this new release right now. Be assured our PMAP stuff will be adopted soon ;-) Stay tuned!

New service people! As of today, we are launching Morfik-specific hosting services for those of you who want to focus on your businesses instead of getting into the nitty-gitty details of hosting and the Morfik XApp Hosting service is not adequate for any reason.

Please check out our summary here and do let us know what you think!

Great news folks! Our demo of PMAP (the PannonRex Morfik Advantage Prorgram software kit) is here! What is in it for you?

• PMAPTree control: a flexible tree control supporting XML and JSON, keyboard navigation, and more.
• PMAPCommon module: with tons of useful functions on both the client and server side, like image list handling, hash map handling, high performance string handling, fast XML processing on the client side, and more.
• PMAPDateUtils module: an extensive set of functions to handle date & time tasks natively and some gems like firstDayOfWeek(), nthDayOfWeek(), incDateDays(), getDayOfMonth(), ISO8601ToDateTime() ,  and more.
• The PMAPTree control demo application with various examples of how to use the tree and how to populate it from various sources, among other things.
• A number of patches to the Morfik FrameWork code, making development more efficient and adding some new functionality.

All the above stuff is tested with Morfik FX 2.0.5.18 & 2.0.5.27 and is only a click away, so don’t hesitate! We are very liberal with the demo license as well: you can use the full version components included in the demo in live applications. All we ask is give us feedback and credit in your apps!

So go and request your demo package today!

Hi Just a quick note to let the Morfik community know: I was able to port the analog clock to Morfik in like 4 hours from not knowing anything about the new way of life to production code. The new custom control architecture is far superior to the previous one, although not for the faint hearted. And some enhancements (like length (e.g. 4px), TColor and TFont properties) would be in order!

I’ll add some more features and then the Clock joins the PMAP control collection!

A more detailed account to come…

Yes! Morfik 2.0 is out at last! After a very long hiatus (the last true “beta” was released sometime early summer) the new Morfik 2.0 Web Application Builder is out.

I’m (quite:-) closely following the Morfik saga since late 2005 and did have many long discussions with Aram, Fuad, Mauricio and Shah about direction in the past three years, sometimes pretty heated chats about the vision and execution, so I’m not an unanimous supporter of everything Morfik, but version 2 is a very significant step in the good direction.

The new visual design concept with themes, states, popup customization, etc. is a major step forward for web application design. I see real innovation here.  Go and check out the tutorial videos, it is worthwhile! I wouldn’t say that I’m fond of the sixties look of the new demo apps (and of the new Morfik site itself), but the design flexibility is impressive and the functionality seems to be very well thought out.

I’ll be looking into the new version in the coming days and weeks (we do have some projects that now will have to be ported anyway, especially our PMAP controls and libraries), so stay tuned for new comments to come.

Now it is two days since my first post on Chrome has appeared. Let’s see some statistics of our blog visitors (Google Analytics, of course :-)

Some conclusions:

• Firefox is over-represented: although Firefox has a good 20%+ or so world-wide market share, the 52%+ result here indicates that Firefox users are open to new browser technologies (no surprise there)
• Safari: ditto, although I suspect that some of the Safari visits are indeed Chrome visits before Google Analytics got smart enough to recognize it
• Chrome and Opera: Chrome got even with Opera in two and a half days. That is a statement, and might get Opera people a bit worried about market share.

Stop the presses!

A few hours (like 6) later we have a somewhat different picture!

Chrome gained 7%+ and it seems that my Safari-Analytics-Chrome theory has some substance as Safari is down markedly, while the other players are virtually unchanged.

Day 4: Chrome is second

So we are at day++, and the results are:

Chrome again gained 7%+ and is second only to Firefox, slightly edging out IE. Not bad for a four day older isn’t it?

I did a very quick speed test to see how fast Chrome is. BTW I did notice instabilities with the Flash plugin.

I run three benchmarks (on the same machine, all browsers open, running the benchmark only in one at a time):

• the V8 Benchmark Suite
• a nice SVG & Canvas speed test
• Sebastien Gruhier’s PGF test page (used earlier in a previous test).

The first test is more JavaScript oriented, where the new V8 virtual machine can shine, the other two test graphical abilities.

And the results are…

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The web is abuzz today with Google’s entrance to the web browser war-field with its shiny new Chrome beta. You’ll find plenty of coverage elsewhere (Google’s blog is here, the comic strip (more about it later) starts here), I’d only like to focus on one conspiracy theory aspect: the first version of Google OS.

First of all, do read the comic strip by Scott McCloud and the Chrome Team. It is in itself a piece of marketing art and although its primary intended audience may be journalists and less technical people, it is a statement of how serious Google is about Chrome and full of hints for conspiracy theorists among us.

So some of my first thoughts will follow…

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