BCDN Blog Moved

If you are one of the subscribers to this feed, or you have arrived here via a link from another page, please join us at our new location:

http://bungeeconnect.wordpress.com

Why the move? While Bungee Labs is the company that sponsors the feeds hosted on this blog, we felt that it would be more appropriate to use the name of the platform offering of Bungee Labs. We hope this switch to use “Bungee Connect” will be a one-time change early in the history of our blog. Thanks for sticking with us through the move.

–Ted Haeger

With rich web technology on the rise, it’s easy to get hung up in technology and forget the design. The increasing options to add application functionality (ajax, web services, etc.) make it easy to forget that no amount of functionality can make up for an ugly UI. I contend that as rich web apps become increasingly more sophisticated, those that go the extra distance to provide better visual appeal and ease-of-use will beat out the apps that just have extra functionality. Read the rest of this entry »

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Alex Barnett, Brad Hintze, Lyle Ball and Ted Haeger will be at Salesforce.com’s DreamForce conference next week. We’ll be spending a lot of time in the developer lounge, attending developer sessions, and eating sushi at Blowfish.

Leave us a comment if you’d like to hook up with us while we’re there.

During our beta stage, and while we finish rounding off the corners of Bungee Connect, there are a number of features I want to start shedding more light upon. This is the first in a series blog posts I’ll be publishing that I hope our beta developers will find useful.

This particular post will be a quick hit at Form development in the builder. Bungee Connect is all about rich UI, so this is a natural place to start. Read the rest of this entry »

Due to the U.S. Holiday on Monday, we have moved the September “Jump Call” to the 11th, at 2:00 MDT.

The Jump Call provides web developers in the Bungee Connect Early Access Beta with an opportunity to talk directly with the Bungee team, and ask questions about Bungee Connect.

Agenda for the Sep 11 Jump Call:

1. What’s in latest system update to Bungee Connect
2. A short Update and How to on Bungee Connect Documentation
3. Open Q&A

Please pre-register for the event, see the forums post in the Bungee Connect Developer Network.

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Recently, one of the participants in the Bungee Connect early access beta asked me how to view XML information in Bungee Connect. The usual context for needing to view an XML doc is when calling a REST API, so I’ll use that as an example. What follows may not be a complete answer to the developer’s original question, but with a little luck, it provides a solid enough foundation from which a developer can discover tricks. Also, I’ll build from simplest (no Bungee, just a browser) up to most involved (inspecting an XMLDocObject that has been populated from a REST reply). Read the rest of this entry »

Why should you consider attending AjaxWorld Conference and Expo? I can think of two good reasons.

1. First off, you can win $5000 for registering right now.
2. Secondly, Bungee Labs’ own Alex Barnett will be presenting at the event.

It’s likely that you will find some of the other Bungee Boys hanging out at the show, so if you’re going to be there, drop us a comment on the blog. We’ll make sure that we can meet up.

We just wrapped up a complete overhaul of the Google Maps Tutorial. It’s now much shorter
than the previous version. (In fact, the previous version had somehow lost a couple key steps, which meant that the tutorial didn’t quite work.) The application you create in the tutorial is a bit stripped down, of course, but building it gives you what you need for your bigger projects.

If you are a participant in the Early Access Beta for Bungee Connect, please give the new tutorial a whirl. We’re always eager for feedback.

If you’re not a participant in the Early Access Beta and want to be, sign up here.

–Ted