JomiTech have just announced the availability of PlatinumGrid, a powerful and flexible PHP grid control that provides PHP developers with a grid capable of handling any application’s requirements. PlatinumGrid combines flexibility with ease of use, providing a feature set that is hard to beat. Features include Ajax support, master-detail integration and complete export capabilities. With an abstracted database access interface, PlatinumGrid is capable of interfacing with any relational database.

Jonathan Benedicto, owner of JomiTech said “The PHP community has lacked a powerful integrated grid control with the features that can be found in other platform grids. We believe that PlatinumGrid has finally provided the PHP developer with a tool that fills this niche.”

Some of the grid’s key features are:
- Complete Ajax integration
- Unlimited database connectivity
- Multiple column types, supporting any data format that must be presented.
- Cell or row selection
- Master-detail integration, capable of showing the detail view inside the master grid.
- Row grouping support.

PlatinumGrid is sold as a one year subscription, during which time the user receives all updates and fixes for free. This subscription is renewable at a discount. The grid is shipped with full source code, and includes a royalty-free deployment license.

Pricing starts at $129USD for a single developer. For more information, visit the PlatinumGrid website at http://www.platinumgrid.com

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Qooxdoo 0.8.2 has just been released with some cool new features to not miss ! Qooxdoo is one of the most popular Open Source RIA Frameworks. Here are some of the highlights of the brand new 0.8.2 release:

• Inspector, a cross-browser debugging tool a la Firebug
• Tons of improvements and bugfixes over the previous version
• Tested for all common browsers, including betas like IE8
• Optimized packaging and loading of qooxdoo applications
• CSS3 selector engine and a jQuery-like low-level API
• Preview of the upcoming data binding layer
• Preview of the new infrastructure for virtual widgets

For more information please see the 0.8.2 announcement as well as the detailed release notes.

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In times of tight budgets, quality is a key success factor to reduce risks in IT projects. Three successful IT consultants and trainers have joined forces and founded thePHP.cc, The PHP Consulting Company.

thePHP.cc helps businesses and enterprises to reduce IT costs in the long term with Open Source technologies and PHP in particular.

thePHP.cc supports their clients in improving their employee’s qualification to overcome skills shortages.

The three founders of thePHP.cc have long-standing experience in consulting, coaching, and training and are sought-after speakers at international IT conferences. They previously helped clients such as Cisco and Digg as well as government agencies.

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Paolo and Claudia have written a cool Javascript Chemical Molecular Editor using the Dojo framework. “It is in constant bugfixing and feature enhancement, but we are proud to announce that a first usable version of this tool is available.” told us Paolo in email. Current features include :

• adding elements ( with automatic elements’ balancement )
• adding bonds ( single, double, triple, wedges, … )
• adding text ( useful for notes, … )
• lot of prepackaged structures ( amino acids, cycles, … )
• selected points rotation
• importing 2D .mol format files
• exporting .png images
• integrated periodic table

Many other features are planned for next release : quick buttons, code refactoring, exporting in .mol, .png format files, and arrows. The interface could be also more user friendly in next release but currently you can simply enjoy it as it. I definitely loved the periodic table of elements with detailed information on every elements, in addition to a small button to add that element to the editor.

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Provides simple and fast rich business web application development with up to 90% reduction in development time and the highest levels of security

February 2, 2009 — Gizmox, the developer of Visual WebGui (VWG), today announced the release of the Visual WebGui Professional Studio. The commercial version of the Visual WebGui Studio Suite enables the building of enterprise-class Rich Internet Applications and offers subscribers unlimited technical support with enterprise grade warranty and service level agreement (SLA). The new commercial Studio Suite offers enhanced developer experience (DX), full integration with Visual Studio and enterprise grade scalability and redundancy with server extensions. In addition, new enterprise-class services, such as prototyping, consulting, hot-fixes and more are available in order to optimize the development experience. Visual WebGui’s Studio Suite will offer commercial deployments at absolutely no additional cost.

To date, more than 30,000 Visual WebGui applications have been deployed at companies such as SAP and IBM, and the number is growing daily. In addition, Visual WebGui’s business Rich Internet Applications are in use by leading banks, insurance firms, government and military agencies, aerospace companies and others. To meet the market demand for a Visual WebGui enterprise grade Studio suite, and to accommodate the growing requests from the Visual WebGui community for commercially-warranted products and services built to support mission-critical application deployments, Gizmox is releasing its commercial Studio Suite ahead of schedule. This release will enable developers and enterprises to utilize Visual WebGui’s cost saving value during the recent economic downturn.

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