[Laszlo-announce] LASZLO DEVNEWS: Autumn 2005

[Lyndon Wong]

FYI, this was sent to the opt-in Laszlo email newsletter list earlier today.

Lyndon

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LASZLO DEVNEWS
Autumn 2005

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Interest in OpenLaszlo, Web usability and richer Web interfaces 
continues to grow. This latest installment of Laszlo DevNews highlights 
some of the action.

PLATFORM ADOPTION
Over the last few months, numerous technology and Web companies have 
launched major product releases based on OpenLaszlo. These latest 
strategic adopters of OpenLaszlo include Barclay's Global Investors, 
Snapfish-HP, Questra, Sylantro, AutoTradeCenter,SVC Financial, 
Renaissance Learning, and Pandora.  They join the list of OpenLaszlo 
early adopters such as Earthlink, Yahoo, Behr, Ziff-Davis and others in 
a commitment to advance the Web experience. Stay tuned in the months 
ahead as more OpenLaszlo-based efforts go live.

LASZLO AT OSCON 2005
Laszlo Systems CTO David Temkin presented at O'Reilly OSCON 2005 in 
Portland, Oregon on August 4, 2005. His well-received session covered 
key learnings Laszlo Systems has accumulated since embarking on an open 
source strategy. The session outline can be viewed at:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2005/view/e_sess/7053

IT CONVERSATIONS PODCAST
During OSCON 2005, veteran technology journalist Scott Mace interviewed 
Laszlo Systems CTO David Temkin, and the results are now available as an 
MP3 podcast at:
http://www.itconversations.com/series/openingmove.html
http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail703.html

Scott pitches his podcast interview thus: "Before AJAX (Asynchronous 
JavaScript and XML) had a name, there was Laszlo Systems, a software 
tools developer using AJAX-like methods along with with Macromedia's 
Flash Player to deliver richer Web experiences. In this conversation 
with Laszlo founder/CTO David Temkin, learn why he chose the Flash 
Player as a platform and why Laszlo went open source choosing IBM's 
Common Public License. What is planned for Laszlo Mail and Laszlo 
Calendar and how he plans to leverage rich client environments other 
than Flash Player."

PANDORA LAUNCHES MUSIC DISCOVERY SERVICE POWERED BY OPENLASZLO Pandora 
is a recently launched music discovery service that is making waves 
among the digerati. Robert Scoble of Microsoft saw a preview August 20th 
at BARCAMP and reported, "Pandora... is simply the coolest thing outside 
of Microsoft that I've seen in a long time. It helps you find new music. 
Tom Conrad, you have a winner on your hands. Congrats."

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/08/20.html#a10922

Tom Conrad, Pandora's CTO, testifies, "Our just-now-launched music 
discovery service, Pandora, is an OpenLaszlo application. It wouldn't be 
fair to finish up our launch without a tip of the hat to the amazing 
Laszlo team and open source community. Eight months ago when we sat down 
to figure out how we were going to deliver a compelling zero-install 
discovery and listening experience across Windows, Mac, and Linux in 
record time we considered everything you can imagine: plain old HTML, 
AJAX, Flex, OpenLaszlo to name just a few. In the end, Laszlo was the 
clear winner on all fronts. Mature, reliable, and the perfect tool for 
the job. This outcome was only remarkable in that the decision was made 
by some of the most capable AJAX developers on the planet. I'll have 
more to say about Laszlo in another post, but for now I just want to 
publicly say thanks to the great team at Laszlo. Pandora wouldn't be 
Pandora without you."

http://tomconrad.blogspot.com/2005/08/pandora-and-openlaszlo.html


IDE4LASZLO NOW AN OFFICIAL ECLIPSE FOUNDATION TECHNOLOGY PROJECT
The IDE4Laszlo, an Eclipse plug-in originally developed by IBM, has been 
accepted by the Eclipse Foundation as an official Eclipse Technology 
Project jointly sponsored by IBM and Laszlo Systems. More details are 
available at:
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/laszlo/index.html

The future home of this project will be:
http://www.eclipse.org/laszlo/

LASZLO TRAINING FOR FALL 2005
Developers who have initiated OpenLaszlo projects without training, have 
often reported they wished they took the opportunity to build a solid 
foundation from the onset. Learn from them, and learn from us, with 
official Laszlo Training courses. The next offerings are this October in 
San Mateo, California.

Intro to OpenLaszlo: October 13 - 14, 2005

Building OpenLaszlo Applications: October 17 - 19, 2005

More details and registration forms are available at:
http://www.laszlosystems.com/services/training/

LASZLO FORUM ACCELERATOR
If you need help with aspects of OpenLaszlo, and have budget and 
deadlines to meet, the Laszlo Forum Accelerator may ideally suit your 
needs. With a small online payment via credit card or PayPal, you can 
prioritize questions posted on the Forums for review and response by 
Laszlo's expert technical staff. This unique and innovative offering 
combines the best attributes of open source community and commercial 
technical support. Since launch in August 2005, Forum Accelerator has 
gained a global following. Learn more at:

http://www.laszlosystems.com/services/support/forums/

EVENTS AND USER GROUPS
We'll be at the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference Oct 5-7, 2005 in San 
Francisco, California. Find out more at:
http://www.web2con.com

For other scheduled events and a listing of Laszlo user groups around 
the world, please see:
http://www.openlaszlo.org/wiki/UserCommunity

RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE
http://www.openlaszlo.org/wiki/MediaCoverage

LIST OF PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE DEPLOYMENTS
http://www.openlaszlo.org/wiki/Laszlo_Applications

DOWNLOADS, SIGNUPS, COMMUNITY
http://www.laszlosystems.com/developers/
http://www.openlaszlo.org/


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That's the highlights for this issue.


Laszlo DevNews Team