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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.

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.

We've been working on setting up a marketplace for Erbix Apps. Developers can freely publish applications and make them available to other users. Apps can be installed in seconds.

Setting up an application for publishing is as simple as creating a text file in the application's root folder:

application.json>>

{
  "name": "Erbix Blog",
  "mainModule": "main.js",
  "jsgiFunction": "main",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "description": "Blogging Application for the Erbix Platform.",
  "keywords": ["erbix", "blog", "app"],
  "contributors": [
    {
      "name": "Mihai Roman",
      "email": "mihai@erbix.com",
      "web": "http://mehi.erbix.com",
      "username": "mehi"
    }
  ]
}

Read the documentation on Marketplace for details.

The usability of the Erbix editor has been improved when you have multiple tabs opened in your browser. The title of the editor tab now modifies dynamically to reflect the filename that you're editing. The title begins with the filename currently being opened, and continues by specifying the full path being edited. This should make it easier to identify and activate the tab with the file you are interested in.

Now you can upload an entire folder by uploading a *.zip or *.tar.gz archive. There's also a  'download' link in each directory in your account, which allows you to download a .tar.gz archive with all the files contained in that directory.

Erbix.com has been featured in the JavaScript Reddit community. We have provided answers to their popular questions in the comments section.

We've added today support for a bunch of RingoJS modules - you can check out the complete list here. This addition improves our engine support for RingoJS and allows Erbix JS apps to take advantage of these libraries.