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Servoy in Processor Magazine Cloud Computing Article

cbenassi — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:11 +0000

Servoy CEO, Jan Aleman, was quoted in Processor Magazine in a Cloud Computing article titled “Happenings In The Cloud: A Look At Technologies & Trends That Are Developing In The Cloud Computing Market.”

Here’s a snippet of the article:

“However, cloud computing does not mean users are limited to working 100% in the cloud. An emerging trend is the use of ‘SaaS and Back’ hybrid applications that can be deployed as SaaS or on-premises through a browser and a native client, says Jan Aleman, CEO at Servoy. This new hybrid platform, adds Aleman, gives users the option of running their applications hosted online — on dedicated servers, virtual servers, or any form of cloud computing — or on-premises.”

Read the full article.

Servoy to Speak at LinuxCon in São Paulo, Brazil

cbenassi — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:38 +0000

Servoy has been invited to present at the industry’s premiere Linux conference, on August 31-September 1 in São Paulo, Brazil. LinuxCon is the premiere Linux conference in both North America and Asia, and is now being extended into South America.

Find out more about the conference details.

Read Servoy’s presentation on “Hybrid Cloud - The Green Future”.

Servoy Database Conversion Service by PostgreSQL Experts Inc

cbenassi — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:00:18 +0000

Servoy 5.2 now ships with PostgreSQL instead of Sybase ASA as the built-in database. Because of this change in default database engines, and to take advantage of the increased scalability, portability and features of PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL Experts Inc. is pleased to offer Servoy users a database conversion service from Sybase ASA to PostgreSQL 8.4 — all you need to do is upload your existing Sybase database file(s).

Find out more information about converting to PostgreSQL.

Servoy New Website Design and Content

cbenassi — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:00:30 +0000

It is a time of progress at Servoy. After rolling out the new Servoy 5.2 release, it was time to upgrade the design of the Servoy website.

The Servoy homepage has been redesigned to help people new to Servoy easily find their way through the Servoy eco-space — using direct links to the most interesting bits of information; a good overview of what Servoy is; the main features of Servoy, and much more.

Visit the new Servoy website.

Early Bird In-person Training - Thousand Oaks, CA Sept 22-24

cbenassi — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 04:00:11 +0000

Take advantage of the opportunity to get Servoy In-Person Training from the people who do it every day. On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, September 22-24, Servoy USA will be hosting a series of training sessions in Thousand Oaks, California.

**Order on or before August 31 and you can take advantage of the Servoy Early Bird $1,699 (USD) for all three days; or $1,299 (USD) for two days. For additional class information and pricing, please contact Carla Benassi at cbenassi@servoy.com.**

To sign-up is easy:

Choose the classes you wish to attend.
Sign up through the Servoy Store or send an email to Carla Benassi at cbenassi@servoy.com with a list of your classes.

Servoy MarketPlace

cbenassi — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:00:42 +0000

Servoy announces the creation of Servoy MarketPlace - THE place for all Servoy Alliance Network (SAN) Members to showcase their product(s) to the Servoy general public, such as:

Servoy Applications
Modules
Example solutions
Documentation
Demos
Beans
Plugins
Tutorials

Servoy University: The New Online Portal for Official Training Videos and Certification

cbenassi — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:00:17 +0000

Servoy University is a new third-party online portal providing Servoy training videos and certification. The University has gathered all the existing videos and put them nicely together in one spot — versioned and tagged for your convenience. More importantly, the portal also hosts a range of new, up-to-date videos on Servoy 5.2. As of today, you can sign up for access to the Servoy University premium videos which will be available at a yearly subscription fee. The first premium series available is the Servoy Developer Certification series, which contains over 40 videos totalling 10 hours of Servoy 5.2 training material! By August 9th, the Developer Certification series will be completely finished.

In September, Servoy University will launch the Servoy Certification program. This will allow you, your team, and your employees to receive official Servoy Certification. More information about certification will be available soon. The team behind Servoy University is devoted to continuously bring you more videos and series, on new topics or Servoy versions. Servoy University is built on the Servoy Platform and led by Scott Butler and Bob Cusick.

Get more information about Servoy University.

Servoy 5.2 released!

Paul Bakker — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:27:00 +0000

Yes, Servoy 5.2 is here, but there’s more. Today, we’re not only releasing Servoy 5.2, but also a few other things….

But first, Servoy 5.2: What’s new?

Servoy 5.2 builds on the Servoy 5.1 and can be considered the maintenance release for 5.1. We gave is a new version number, mainly to ‘celebrate’ the fact that with this release we open sourced Servoy Developer and the Smart and Web Client. Additionally we now bundle PostgreSQL as the default database engine.

Open source
Servoy 5.2 is Servoy’s first open source release. This release makes all the source code of Servoy Developer, as well as the Smart, Web, Headless and Batchprocessor client available under the Affero General Public License.

PostgreSQL
Servoy 5.2 ships with PostgreSQL as the default database.

Window support
Besides dialogs, Servoy also allows the developer to show forms in windows. Each window shows up in the system bar individually, can be minimized to the system bar and can move behind other windows. Read all about it here.

Enhanced security
To further improve client security, Servoy 5.2 provides even more robust authentication. Read more about it here.

View the full list of things new in Servoy 5.2 here. The complete Release Notes can be found here. Information on upgrading from earlier version of Servoy can be found here.

What else is new?

New web site design & content
It was time to overhaul the design of the web site once again. We designed the main page to help people new to Servoy find the best way possible through their discovery of the Servoy eco-space, using direct links to the most interesting bits, a good overview of what Servoy is, its main features etc.

Servoy MarketPlace
One of the prominent links on the homepage is a link to the Servoy MarketPlace, the place for all Servoy Alliance Network members to showcase their product - whether complete solutions, modules, bits of documentation or plugins/beans, to the general (Servoy) public.

More open support system
By popular request, we have been working on selecting a new support system and we have found it in the form of Atlassian’s Jira. We still have to work out some details, but Jira seems to be offering all that is required. As migration from our current support system to Jira will take some time, we modified the existing support system so you can at least view cases created by others.

New Quickstart Guide
Also by popular demand: new and up-to-date Quickstart Guide. Besides just the text, the authors also recorded their material in video format!

Updated Reference Guide
As with every release, the Programming Reference Guide has been updated to match the new version. Besides just adding the new functions, properties, etc., many descriptions and samples have been updated.

So, what’s next?

So, are we done? No, we are moving full steam ahead.
Codename Kamili
The guys from R&D are already working on the next version of Servoy, codename “Kamili”. The clever people of Servoy Forge already hooked up their systems to the Servoy SVN to track all the updates that are being done by the R&D team. Want to know more about it? Stayed tuned on this channel, as we will blog on Kamili’s roadmap soon.

Servoy Developer Center
To further streamline the “Servoy Experience”, we are working on the Servoy Developer Center (SDC). The SDC will be the new main page for the Servoy Wiki. It will be a developer centric page with an overview of the latest news for developers, links, tutorials, etc. It will replace iServoy.

ServoyWorld 2011: Bigger, better, faster and …
Our team is finalizing the arrangements for the next ServoyWorld, which will be held in Q1 2011 in the Netherlands (so, besides your laptop - bring your ice skates!)

Migration of our support system to Jira
As mentioned above, we’ll be working hard on figuring out the last details and then migrate the current support system over to Jira.

More docs and tutorials
You can never have enough, can you? Tthere’s the new Quickstart Guide now, but that is just the start. More is slated to come your way.

More stuff to support our open source supporters
Now that large parts of the Servoy codebase are open source, we will provide the tools for the people who are interested in contributing. Not that you can’t already though. First patches from some Servoy Open Source-enthusiasts have made it into Servoy 5.2 already!

Providing single sign-on for the Servoy Talk forum, Servoy Wiki/SDC and other Servoy sites
With the growing list of sites we supply to you, we though it would be a good idea to provide you with a single sign-on function (and it’ll make our lives easier as well )

And yet there’s more…

Besides us, others have been busy too.
pgExperts Sybase > PostgreSQL migration service
pgExperts Inc. offers a special migration service for Servoy customers to automatically migrate Sybase databases to PostgreSQL. Just upload your Sybase database files and get back the same database, but then in PostgreSQL! Read all about it here.

Servoy University
Servoy University, or ServoyU for short, is an online portal providing Servoy training videos and certification. It has gathered all the existing videos and put them all nicely together in one spot - versioned and tagged for your convenience. More importantly, it also hosts a range of new, up-to-date videos on Servoy 5.2.
As of today, you can sign up for access to its premium videos which will be available at a yearly subscription fee. The first premium series available is the Servoy Developer Certification series, over 40 videos totalling 10 hours of Servoy 5.2 training material! By August 9th, the Developer Certification series will be completely finished.
In September, ServoyU will launch the Servoy Certification program. This will allow you, your team, and your employees to receive official Servoy Certification. More information about certification will be available soon.
The team behind ServoyUniversity is devoted to continuously bring you more videos and series, on new topics or Servoy versions.

ServoyForge
In the wake of the announcement that Servoy would go open source, some long-time Servoy enthusiasts joined forces and (re)launched ServoyForge: the place for open source projects related to Servoy - whether they be beans, solutions, plugins or modules - you’ll find them there.
As Servoy, we have already launched 2 new project there (ServoySecurity & ServoyCommons) and more will follow shortly, including the Servoy JasperReports plugin.

Paul Bakker
Product Marketing Manager
Servoy

Jan Aleman Interviewed on CS Techcast: “Using Open Source in the Cloud”

cbenassi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:00:53 +0000

Jan Aleman, Servoy CEO, was interviewed on the CS Techcast episode 124 titled “Using Open Source in the Cloud”.

You can watch Jan’s interview starting at minute 17′.

“This week at CSTechcast.com, we talk about how the cloud is moving forward with open-source standards and how cloud computing will look in a few years with Jan Aleman, CEO of Servoy and secretary of EuroCloud compendium. You can find more at Servoy.com.”

Click here to watch the CS Techcast interview:

http://www.cstechcast.com/podcasts/cs-techcast/episode124/

Servoy Special Webinar: Team Sharing in Servoy - Sept 9

cbenassi — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:00:50 +0000

Team sharing is an important topic for developers that work with other developers. It is critical to have tools that will allow development teams to have the confidence to work in the same projects without the fear of losing code changes — because someone has overwritten shared code. Another tool that is important to code maintenance is the ability to work on similar or future projects without disrupting the current code.

This webinar, presented by Jason Meunier, Servoy Senior Technical Engineer, will discuss the following topics related to team sharing in Servoy:

Servoy Team Sharing Repository
Subversion
Servoy Team Sharing vs. Subversion
Installing/Setting up Subversion in Servoy
Using Servoy Workbench tools to work with your code repositories — commit, update, sync.
Code management — viewing histories, branching, tagging.
Discussing how using a code repository can help the single developer.