www.erbix.com/blogs» erbix

Starting immediately, you can try the Erbix Apps or the development IDE without registering for a user account.

This is now possible due to our launch of the "Test Drive" feature - on the login page you'll see a new button allowing you to try Erbix without registration. Just a quick test to confirm you're human and you're ready to go.

Today we're also launching our integration with Facebook accounts. In addition to Google, Yahoo and OpenID providers, you can now use in Erbix your Facebook account as a third party login provider.

read more

Since the last update, here's what's new:

• improved site design and usability; we simplified the navigation and made it easier to view and access your account's apps. The new design is live at http://www.erbix.com/.

• developer source version control integration - now we offer a web-based shell console that supports SVN and GIT commands. This allows you to interact with external repositories from within the browser. Available here.

• JSheet, a spreadsheet app that allows you to quickly create and store spreadsheet data online using Erbix. Check it out at http://www.erbix.com/jsheet/.

read more

We have launched in the Erbix App Store a new app: Meeting Planner.

Plan your meetings in advance. It's easy to use and manage. Create polls to find when and where people prefer to meet and then send the poll URLs to the desired participants. The tool allows you to specify dates and places for an event and lets invited participants decide on them.

The app is available here.

read more

We have launched a set of subscription plans that enable users to increase their account limits significantly, i.e. up to 10 GB of disk space. This allows our users to take advantage of the increased limits in order to move more of their data and apps on the Erbix platform.

For some of our plans we offer the ability to host with us a custom domain (example: your-domain.com). Users are no longer limited to Erbix subdomains; you can use the Erbix platform to power your site under your own domain brand. Currently custom domain requests are activated manually; requests should be made by emailing support AT erbix.com; activation takes up to 24 hours. read more

We've added JDBC-compatible support in Erbix. You can run database transactions, execute queries that return multiple returns, get auto generated columns and get most of the Java PostgreSQL driver functionality.

http://www.erbix.com/documentation/js-reference/sql/

http://www.erbix.com/documentation/js-reference/jsdbc/

read more

We launched our new homepage today, but it's not just a facelift. Under the hood there's an improved Online Editor, a brand new Marketplace and robust backend that hasn't let us down.         read more

We are happy to announce the launch of an extraordinary application: Form Creator. Form Creator is an Erbix application developed by Erbix that allows users to set up online forms and collect data from their peers. This simple application rivals commercial online software priced at tens of dollars per month. However, unlike those services, leveraging on the design of Erbix Platform, Forms delivers the data in raw format, in the Erbix Account's PostgreSQL database.

Other applications can use the collected data directly, query it using SQL, and provide incredible opportunities. Forms is the first application that stands to prove how important it is to be able to control your data while using cloud web applications.

Applications can now be modular at data level. Imagine a reporting application that uses any database table as a data source. There's no need to create import/export API to provide reporting capabilities to your Forms collected data.

read more

Get used to hearing this line over and over again. We plan to use only applications hosted and/or developed on Erbix.

Erbix Blog is not just a simple blogging applications. It was intented as a testing app in our quest to asses the friction that arises when porting existing open source JavaScript code.

We are happy to announce that, whether or not built with CommonJS support, it's fast and easy to port and use great existing JavaScript frameworks and libraries:

• TrimPath Junction Model (ActiveRecord pattern)
• TrimPath client and server side JavaScript Template (JST)
• JSON parser
• ECMA Script Template Engine (ESTE)
• MSF String.format

Special thanks go to Zohaib Hassan who inspired us with his microGum MiMViC ported framework. He was among the first developers to try out Erbix.

read more