Morfik 3 and mobile development

If you haven't downloaded the beta version of Morfik 3 you should stop wasting your time.  Morfik 3 introduces a new page templates feature which let you easily create reusable layouts and basic page configurations.

This is really useful in getting started with a new project as you will be able to reuse layouts and parts of your application design that you might have already created in a previous project and saved into a template.  It is even more useful is that now that you can create pages that are specific to the iPhone and for general computers withing the same application and have the Morfik Framework automatically serve out the correct ones.  The selection is done automatically based on the device that is being used to access the application.

Morfik 3 goes into beta

Morfik has just made available for download from their website the first beta version of Morfik 3. This is the next major version of the company's flagship product and as the more recent posts to the official Morfik blog indicate it is packed with new features.

Along with the beta version the company's website has been entirely redesigned with a full corporate brand makeover including a new logo and color scheme for the product and web properties.

I'll be following up this short post with more detailed information during the day.  Right now I just wanted to make sure that everybody knew to download the beta version.

The never ending move...

It's incredible but this move is going to end up taking up a whole month, rather than a 3 days as I had anticipated.

As I was starting the process I had an issue with the new server and that alone pushed the whole process back by 3 days.  All the rest is just my self underestimating the amount of trouble and hurt it would be to merge this website and the Morfik communities currently residing in Ning.

In the past 4 or 5 months I've created and moved around several blogs a major move by iPadWatcher (www.ipadwatcher.com) and they all went very well and none lasted for more than 48 hours.

Hopefully I'll have it all sorted out soon.

Morfik Watch is moving...

The process of moving MorfikWatch to a new home has started.  Over the next 24 to 72 hours it should be complete. 

During this period there might be some moments when the website is unavailable or available with only partial content.  This period should not last long and during that time this blog's current content will be available at morfikwatch.blogspot.com.

Long absence...

I've been absent from my regular blogging about Morfik for a while now.  I have been involved with two major projects in the past three months and this has taken a toll in the number of posts I've done since February.

I'm currently preparing to move MorfikWatch to the same blogging platform as the iPadWatcher.com blog, which will make things easier for me in the next step in the evolution of this blog.

I have several plans for the near future of MorfikWatch and moving the website to a more flexible platform is a big part of them.  I really would have preferred to write the whole site from scratch in Morfik, but for now I'll settle with just getting MorfikWatch out of blogger and onto a WordPress based infrastructure that allows me much more freedom in how I can publish not only regular posts but longer and not as time constrained articles.

Stay tuned for the new MorfikWatch coming to a browser near you...

New opportunities for Morfik applications

I thought this was a good moment to discuss some interesting possibilities that are opening open for people who develop rich Internet applications without resorting to plug-ins such as Flash and Silverlight.   If you have followed some of the hype that has been bubbling all over the Web about Apple's new iPad, you will be hard pressed to have missed the point that it doesn't support any such plug-ins.

In fact, the lack of Flash support has been one of the most hit on criticisms against the iPad.  Now, how is this interesting for the readers of MorfikWatch?  Well, let's consider this.  Several major websites that make use of Flash have been scrambling to get rid of it, instead of getting rid of the millions of people that are expected to get an iPad between now and the end of this year.

MorfikWatch #100 - Two new packages from Morfik

Morfik has announced in its official blog the release of two new add-on packages that are available to members of its Morfik Developer Assist Plus program.  These packages allow the user to include Amazon Ads in their applications as well as to present large sized images in a fancy HTML popup. 

This second package is based on the highly used LightBox library and adds a nice touch to applications that show thumbnails of images and then display the full picture when user clicks on the thumbnail.

As I came into MorfikWatch to post about this new release I noticed that it would be the 100th post on this blog.  I'm sure that Morfik actually released these packages just to celebrate this momentous occasion. :-)

Thanks to everyone that has been following MorfikWatch through all these posts.