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.

Morfik auto-deployment agent available for beta testing

Morfik is making available its auto-deployment agent for beta testing.  Morfik has decided to release this agent as a product to facilitate the process of deployment to corporate servers for its users as well as to make it easier for hosting service providers to support the deployment of Morfik built applications.

This is great news to anyone that has tried out Morfik's own MorfikSpace hosting service which is still under testing.  The deployment process to the Morfik servers could hardly be easier and faster.  The availability of such a service ends up making it so easy to update an application that you may end up doing much more frequent updates than you did before.

Grab a copy from the downloads area of the Morfik website and take it for a spin.

Big packages day at Morfik: 4 new packages are available

It seems to be a big day for packages at Morfik as they have released four new packages to the subscribers of the Morfik Developer Assist program.


These packages include classes and widgets for adding AdSense, YouTube videos, Amazon S3 storage (including an uploader widget) and polished Accordion widget package.

Morfik releases several new sample applications

Morfik has just made available several new applications for download from their website. These applications provide more examples on how to use several techniques which are new to the Morfik 2.x branch such as published URLs and Links.  The following is a list of the new samples they've released:

• Morfik Reports is a cut-down version of the AjaxSMB Project. It only includes Reports and is currently downloadable as part of the Morfik Reports video in the eLearning center. 

Morfik Chat/Discussion

We are a bit late in having out chats about using external code in Morfik and I apologize to all the people that have written in interested in taking part in on of the sessions.  This has been really my fault as the past two weeks have been very frantic for me and I couldn't be sure of my own schedule.

In the next couple of days I'll be in touch with everybody, with chat schedules for different areas.  I hope we'll be able to have time which will be reasonable for everyone, regardless of the timezones.  If you are interested in joining one of the sessions and haven't emailed in yet, please do so.  

Watch out for Morfik 3.0

In a recent post in the official Morfik blog Aram Mirkazemi, Founder and CEO of Morfik, announced that the next major version of Morfik should be released in the second quarter of 2010.  While specific details aren't yet available, Aram did leave us with a general list of improvements that we can expect to see in Morfik 3.0:

• Significant improvements to widgets and packages architecture and implementation
• New controls, as well as enhancements to existing controls
• Highly-improved continuous editable forms
• Support for internationalization
• Support for animation and special graphical effects when controls change state or are moved.
• Introduction of abstract data source
• Improvements to the built-in debug browser
• General bug fixing and improvements in software stability

One area where he have already been showed a peek at what we can expect is that of controls, as some weeks ago another post  in the Morfik blog, this time by Dmitry Medvedev (who in his spare time runs Russia), showed us a menu system that would be available in a future release.  I guess that we  can be confident that it will be in version 3.0.