Here's the weekly status update. It arrives a bit late, as there was a National holiday on 3rd of October, so the qooxdoo core team at 1&1 enjoyed a long weekend.

Last week we had the pleasure to welcome Yücel Beser, who joins the team for a Bachelor thesis on qooxdoo, and Martin Wittemann, who's back full-time for his Master thesis on qooxdoo data binding. Fabian also returned from vacation, so work continues with bugfixing and advancing the core framework. Some fundamental internals are to be addressed, e.g. memory leaks in 0.7 or script loading in 0.8. Watch out for some more details about topics and agenda.

Spket IDE

A great announcement was the integrated qooxdoo support in the new release of Spket IDE. It can either be used as a stand-alone application or as a plugin to Eclipse IDE. It features code assist for qooxdoo 0.8, supporting API reference documentation. Pretty handy is the "open declaration" feature, that allows to jump to the corresponding source code of a function or constructor. See the Spket IDE qooxdoo features for more details. As Eric Suen noted, support for custom classes will be added in a future version. Keep up the good work!

Textmate

Another topic came up on the mailing list for better qooxdoo tool support: Mike was asking for a collaboration on a qooxdoo Textmate bundle. As there are some interested Textmate users in qooxdoo land, such a support might become a nice addition to qooxdoo-contrib. If you are a Textmate/qooxdoo user, you're welcome to help in creating and refining such a bundle.

JtOS - Web Operating System

Jhonny Thio let the community know about his very first qooxdoo app, which is the final project of his studies at university: JtOS is a new kind of Operating System, where everything resides on a web browser. With JtOS, you will have your desktop, applications and files always with you, from your home, your college, your office or your neighbour’s house. Just open a web browser, connect to your JtOS System and access your personal desktop and all your stuff just like you left it last time.

Isn't it pretty amazing what kind of cool web applications qooxdoo allows everyone, even newbies, to build? If you also created a qooxdoo app that you like to share some info about, please tell others on the mailing list and add it to the real-life examples on the wiki-based homepage.