JGate Change Log

Our new blog brings you interesting product news and technical stories regarding JGate and our hosting platform.

The new contact form allows you to contact us by direct message, or by phone from Germany and the US.

We finally added some missing links, like our about page and our privacy policy, all accessible from every page's footer.

There were also some design changes, like the new header banner, inspired by Twitter and hand-drawn in Photoshop, and some optimizations, like the larger application browser and the background sprites.

Enjoy!

Happy New Year 2010!

I have just deployed a small platform update, that fixes/changes two things:

• The statistics are now archived every month and show unpublished applications with their names instead of ******. Deleted applications, that have statistic records are displayed as (deleted).
• Emails have now a correct sender field in the form noreply@appname.jgate.de

We have just added this important feature. Use the platform statistics to see how much resources your and the other applications are taking. Use the application statistics to see how your applications are performing and who is referring to it. You can access the platform statistics from the user menu.


To access the application statistics use your dashboard.

With todays update, the JGate platform defaults to use Bespin as the preferred editor. You can still switch back to use the AppJet editor from the new "My Account" pages. Editing your applications, especially with large files should now be a lot easier.

Happy Coding!

The JGate site is now using an updated, fresh design. Everything is generated by the AppJet engine. This allows to make changes using the Web IDE like using a conventional CMS, but with a greater flexibility.

The new IDE features a splitter view were the application pane directly reflects changes in the editor pane when pressing Ctrl+S.

The platform has now the first version of an API to list and modify applications. This will allow developers to push their code for instance from an Eclipse plugin. The JGate web interface also makes use of it when listing applications or when using the new "Quick Save" function in the IDE.

Functions implemented so far

• ListApps: Lists details about all public applications
• ListMyApps: Lists details about all own applications*
• WriteApp: Writes the source code of the specified application*

*requires authorization

To see a demonstration of the API see this little app: http://api-test.jgate.de

The latest platform update includes bug fixes for cron jobs, better error messages and support for custom domains. To see a demonstration of cron jobs see this little app: http://cron-demo.jgate.de

Now with the latest developments around AppJet, we have set the beta phase to start on July 1st. The latest compatibility patches are now online. With them JGate supports:

• Code Sections: Use them to store CSS, client code, server code and templates as you did on AppJet
• Dispatch Tables: lib-dispatch and its variants are now supported
• User libraries: User libraries are now supported and should make it easy to reuse existing code.

As a proof you can see the Space Wiki running unmodified. We use it to share knowledge about writing applications.

Enjoy!

http://wiki.jgate.de/

The search engine now allows fuzzy searches, searches by author and to search in the JavaScript code of all applications.

• Fuzzy Search: To do a fuzzy search, add ~ at the end of the query string
• Search by author: To search for an author, add author: in front of the query string
• Search in source code: To search in the source code of all applications, add source: in front of the query string

This allows some new interesting searches like:

source:amazon - for applications referring to Amazon APIs
source:google - for applications referring to Google APIs
source:StorableCollection - for applications using StorableCollections

http://appspot.jgate.de/