In January I started a new job as a Software Engineer at Laszlo Systems - designing and developing kick-ass applications on top of the platform that’s now called OpenLaszlo. The general idea of the Laszlo Presentation Server is similar to the idea behind the Flex server that I worked on at Macromedia - developing apps in a language that combines declarative coding of a dialect of XML with ECMAScript for rapid prototyping of engaging web applications. Yeah, I know that last bit sounds a bit like marketing-talk but it’s hard to avoid talking about stuff like “Rich Internet Applications” and the “Cinematic User Experience” when I explain the stuff that I do to both technical and non-technical folks.
OpenLaszlo 3.0 (currently in beta at openlaszlo.com) is an open-source suite of Java Servlets (compiler, proxy, media transcoders) and LZX - an object-oriented XML language that is easy to develop with & incorporates well with source-versioning tools like Subversion, CVS and Perforce. I’m most excited about the new serverless deployment feature of OpenLaszlo 3.0 — With serverless deployment I can host Laszlo projects on my site without running a servlet container on one of my public-facing machines. More to come!
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