Last Week
So, last week was a busy week, and ended on a high note as we had one of our quarterly hackathons. This time it resulted in many potential libs and apps, three of those became polished enough to be released on our Market. Say welcome to a library for generating QR-codes, a modest “add custom CSS to your site” app, and an attachment viewer app (for previewing PDFs and other files on your site). Read more in the Market-section.
Last week we sent our Alan Semenov to Mobile Era 2018, where he introduced Workbox, a toolkit to help maintain sanity when building PWAs.
Last week the insurance company Gouda.no launched on XP. Congratulations to the team!
Speaking of customer projects, roughly a year ago we launched a microsite called Mindful Monsters for Scope in UK. This organization helps disabled people, so it feels great that this project that started out as a smaller “let’s try do build something cool on XP” managed to push close to 500 000 GBP in subscriptions its first year, and now aiming even higher for the second year.
In the world of XP 6.x, we released 6.15.5 last week. It fixes a couple of bugs so upgrading is recommended.
On the 7.0-front we started up a full OWASP security test that will run for a few weeks and cover not only the platform itself but also some popular apps and libs. This is one of many important steps for us before release. We still have a long way to go, but the aim is to get 7.0 out in time for Christmas.
Still on the hunt for those Java-developers - one senior and one regular. Read more about the positions on our career-page.
Enonic Releases
Our latest release is Enonic XP 6.15.5, new last week!
As always, we appreciate feature requests and bug reports here in the forum and/or on our Github page for XP.
Enonic Market
Enonic Market had these updates last week:
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Custom CSS 1.0.0 - New app: Add a chunk of custom CSS to your site directly from the admin interface.
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QR Code Library 1.0.0 - New lib: Generate QR-codes from your apps using this library.
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Attachment viewer 1.0.0 - New app: Enonic XP app to view attachments in the browser.
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Http Client Lib 1.0.4 + 1.0.3 - Fixed issue with unclosed response body. + added cookies to response, option to avoid following redirects.
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Office League 1.5.4 - Text-to-speech support for game messages/comments.
Further reading
Here’s some interesting articles that surfaced last week, related to the web in general (not only development).
- The Scope microsite case study
- What is an innovation platform?
- How to work with videos in Enonic XP
- How to build a business case for your new website project
Send me a private message if you happen to stumble over something interesting this week.
Events
The following events are planned so far:
No current events.
Training
We provide professional training for developers, editors, and marketers. These training events are coming up, but more are available! Need custom training, or training on other dates, or other locations? Contact us!
- Developer 101: 27th of November
- Developer 201: 28nd of November
- Content 101: 6th of December
- Workshop - PWA 101: 11th of December
Don’t forget to certify yourself as an XP developer!
That’s it for now. Stay in touch with us here in our forums and on our open Slack channels.
See you next week!