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This year has been a busy year on Appway Developer — from the great recipes and documentation produced, to following the informative discussions in the Forum, we hope there was something useful for everyone.
See what we think are some highlights of 2015 below: What content would you recommend to members of the Developer Community?
Community
We've had the honor of welcoming over 160 new members to the Developer Community since January 2015! Our Academy delivered 279 days of training to over 750 trainees, and expanded the courses to include 6.2 Upgrade and Screen Design trainings. The Academy also worked hard on expanding the "expert" offering, with more scheduled for 2016.
Cookbook
Our cookbook is bursting with recipes! We've published 40 new recipes this year, covering a wide variety of topics. While the five most popular recipes (listed below) cover aspects of Screen design, members of the Developer Community have also been busy cooking up great content on writing cleaner code, designing emails, and executing long-running scripts in parallel, to name a few.
Here are the top five recipes for 2015:
Blog
We continued to post great short-form content on our blog this year, the highlight being L. Mathis's 14-part series on Workspace Design. Covering various aspects of the decisions behind why the Workspace in Appway 6 looks the way it does, one post in particular got much more attention than the others: Note #6, on "Why There is (Almost) no Drag and Drop". This Note looks at the three main reasons why we've made the decision to avoid drag and drop interactions whenever possible — and why you should too.
A summary of the series so far, and a PDF of all Notes available for download, can be found in "Workspace Design Notes: The Collected Series".
We also ran features on Studio access and administration, data management and integration links, and continued posting a couple more ideas from the team about how to be more productive using Appway.
Documentation
We published documentation on many topics over the course of 2015, and have much more on the way for next year. We highly recommend reading through all the following pieces — but if you've only got time for one, we'd suggest "Web Services".
Web Services
Web Services are generally used to integrate with a third-party application. The two industry-standard Web Service types are Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST). The Web Services extension can act as a client for both.
Workspace Design for Appway 6.2
Appway 6.2 saw the introduction of a new Workspace design, and a number of new Screen components. This document explains how to use the new Screen components, and how to easily achieve good-looking screens along with a clean, user-friendly interaction design.
Performing Load Testing on a Solution
The goal of load testing is to verify whether the design of the solution is correct and can sustain the estimated load of a specific number of users performing a specific number of tasks in a given period of time. It is highly recommended that you perform load testing on your solution before you make it available to end users. Load testing assures high reliability and efficiency of the designed solution.
Forum
The Forum is where you can ask questions, get assistance and help others with their Appway solution. There have been over 130 discussions started this year on a wide range of topics. Thank you to every one who got involved and helped out members of the community - both by asking questions, and by answering them.
We hope you value being part of the Developer Community and would love to hear any feedback, suggestions or other ideas you may have!
See what we think are some highlights of 2015 below: What content would you recommend to members of the Developer Community?
Community
We've had the honor of welcoming over 160 new members to the Developer Community since January 2015! Our Academy delivered 279 days of training to over 750 trainees, and expanded the courses to include 6.2 Upgrade and Screen Design trainings. The Academy also worked hard on expanding the "expert" offering, with more scheduled for 2016.
Cookbook
Our cookbook is bursting with recipes! We've published 40 new recipes this year, covering a wide variety of topics. While the five most popular recipes (listed below) cover aspects of Screen design, members of the Developer Community have also been busy cooking up great content on writing cleaner code, designing emails, and executing long-running scripts in parallel, to name a few.
Here are the top five recipes for 2015:
- Design Patterns for Replacing Modal Windows
- Implementing Request-Reply Patterns with ActiveMQ
- Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Dropdowns: When to use what?
- Cool Appway Scripts
- Changing Font Awesome icon colors
Blog
We continued to post great short-form content on our blog this year, the highlight being L. Mathis's 14-part series on Workspace Design. Covering various aspects of the decisions behind why the Workspace in Appway 6 looks the way it does, one post in particular got much more attention than the others: Note #6, on "Why There is (Almost) no Drag and Drop". This Note looks at the three main reasons why we've made the decision to avoid drag and drop interactions whenever possible — and why you should too.
A summary of the series so far, and a PDF of all Notes available for download, can be found in "Workspace Design Notes: The Collected Series".
We also ran features on Studio access and administration, data management and integration links, and continued posting a couple more ideas from the team about how to be more productive using Appway.
Documentation
We published documentation on many topics over the course of 2015, and have much more on the way for next year. We highly recommend reading through all the following pieces — but if you've only got time for one, we'd suggest "Web Services".
Web Services
Web Services are generally used to integrate with a third-party application. The two industry-standard Web Service types are Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST). The Web Services extension can act as a client for both.
Workspace Design for Appway 6.2
Appway 6.2 saw the introduction of a new Workspace design, and a number of new Screen components. This document explains how to use the new Screen components, and how to easily achieve good-looking screens along with a clean, user-friendly interaction design.
Performing Load Testing on a Solution
The goal of load testing is to verify whether the design of the solution is correct and can sustain the estimated load of a specific number of users performing a specific number of tasks in a given period of time. It is highly recommended that you perform load testing on your solution before you make it available to end users. Load testing assures high reliability and efficiency of the designed solution.
Forum
The Forum is where you can ask questions, get assistance and help others with their Appway solution. There have been over 130 discussions started this year on a wide range of topics. Thank you to every one who got involved and helped out members of the community - both by asking questions, and by answering them.
We hope you value being part of the Developer Community and would love to hear any feedback, suggestions or other ideas you may have!
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Developer is transitioning to Appway Community
The next step in the transition to community.appway.com is here! As of April 2017, the Community Blog is exclusively available via community.appway.com. The Blog joins the Forum and our Support system, which already moved to their new home in 2016.
Our written material (recipes and documentation) is currently being migrated, and is available in beta on community.appway.com at Support > Knowledge Base.
All information for Appway 6.3 and below is still available here on developer.appway.com while this migration takes place.
Note: Material relevant for Appway 7 will only be available in the Knowledge Base on community.appway.com
Any questions or feedback? Please contact community@appway.com
Our written material (recipes and documentation) is currently being migrated, and is available in beta on community.appway.com at Support > Knowledge Base.
All information for Appway 6.3 and below is still available here on developer.appway.com while this migration takes place.
Note: Material relevant for Appway 7 will only be available in the Knowledge Base on community.appway.comAny questions or feedback? Please contact community@appway.com