Suspending development for a couple of months 
Monday, January 28, 2008, 12:21 AM
Posted by Administrator
Too many other important tasks have been piling up which means I have to let go of JNEXT for a bit. My hope is to complete the Mac OS/X port and add some very useful plugins + a quick financial analysis sample after I get back to it. If anyone wishes to continue the Mac port from the point I left it at, then feel free to contact me (though I'm not holding my breath...)

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Mac OS/X plugin working ! 
Sunday, January 20, 2008, 08:07 PM
Posted by Administrator
Finally the JNEXT version for the OS/X is working - need to clean it up and repackage for the next version, but the vision for a complete cross browser cross platform framework is one step closer to being achieved... :-)

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Got my Mac ! 
Thursday, January 3, 2008, 09:32 AM
Posted by Administrator
I set up the Mac mini and now its standing next to my Ubuntu desktop :-)
I have to admit that Apple knows how to create polished products better than any other company in this business. From the hardware to the software, usability and elegance are very prominent.

Anyway - I've been chasing deadlines and immersed in work the past couple of months and its probably going to stay that way for another few weeks, so in the meantime, not much work has been done in the JNEXT front. I've began to look into what it would take to convert it to the OS/X platform and is seems I already have enough to go on to start the process, but as I've mentioned, it will take another month or two.

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Waiting for my Mac... 
Thursday, December 13, 2007, 05:09 PM
Posted by Administrator
JNEXT support for the Mac OS/X just got a bit closer - I should receive a Mac in a couple of weeks and will start the learning curve understanding what goes where in order to port the Linux sources to their Mach counterparts.

Haven't made much progress on the external scriptiing languages support yet as I've had a lot of work to complete in my everyday development work. Hope to return to it in the next couple of weeks.


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Plans for JNEXT 1.0.8 
Wednesday, November 7, 2007, 08:43 PM
Posted by Administrator
There are many things that can be done for version 1.0.8, from UDP sockets to native vector graphics support - since you have access to the underlying native OS, anything is possible. However, since I haven't received any special requests, JNEXT 1.0.8 will target broadening the framework infrastructure. This includes: adding a namespace policy for extensions, adding a bridge plugin to support creating extensions in other languages (This will enable creating JavaScript native extensions in Python, Perl, Lua, Ruby or whatever other language makes you feel warm and fuzzy...). Again, flexibility and simplicity of use will be the main theme as I am a fanatic believer in putting ockhams razor to good use wherever and whenever possible.

By the way, if there are any OS/X developers out there who are reading this, please consider porting JNEXT to OS/X. This will save me buying a system and expidite the release date for JNEXT for the Mac.



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