February 25th, 2009
Appcelerator Expands Titanium Capabilities with Linux Support, an Extensibility API, and Brings Ruby and Python to Desktop Applications
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., February 25, 2009 — Appcelerator, Inc. a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich web, desktop and mobile applications, today announced major upgrades to Titanium, an open source platform for building desktop applications using Web technologies. The major new features, which are being released as Titanium Preview Release 2 (PR2) are available immediately as a free download and include:
- Support for Linux;
- A Module API for extending the core Titanium platform;
- Support for application scripts written in Ruby, and Python;
- Seamless interoperability between C++, JavaScript, Ruby and Python.
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December 9th, 2008
The open source platform advances ease of use, functionality, and innovation for application development
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 9, 2008 — Appcelerator, Inc., a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, today announced the public preview release of Appcelerator Titanium™, an open source platform for building desktop and mobile applications using a common set of Web technologies.
Titanium allows developers to use standard Web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript to quickly and easily develop applications that can be deployed to multiple platforms, including the desktop, the browser or the mobile device. Unlike traditional Web applications, which are limited to operating within the browser, Titanium desktop applications are able to read and write local data on the desktop and interact with the operating system. In particular, Titanium enables developers to build desktop Web applications that can operate both online and offline. [Read more →]
December 9th, 2008
Growth of rich Internet applications drives new investment in technology to build and manage browser, desktop and mobile applications
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., December 9, 2008 — Appcelerator, Inc., a leading provider of open source technologies for building and managing rich Web applications, today announced it has secured $4.1 million in Series A funding, led by Storm Ventures. Appcelerator will use the proceeds to further advance and extend the functionality of its Open Web platform that allows applications to be quickly and easily built and deployed as a rich Web application, a native desktop application or a mobile application. [Read more →]
October 9th, 2008
At the DOSUG meeting last night, Matt Quinlan talked to us about his company’s product, Appcelerator…Appcelerator brings delcarative, remotable messaging to HTML. Put another way: the Observer pattern is back in your web UIs, and it misses you! Read more
October 5th, 2008
We (that is, “we” developers) all have our favorite secret weapons when it comes to making the complicated (read: RIA) applications seem easy, stuff like JQuery, YUI, Flex, mootools (hahaha, funny right?) Flash, ZK, Openlazlo, etc. But allow me to introduce a new discovery, Appcelerator. Read more.
September 22nd, 2008
The future of Web development lies in building Rich Internet Applications as true, standalone Web clients based on open standards such as HTML, Cascading Style Sheets and JavaScript that interact with the server side purely through Web services. READ FULL ARTICLE
July 2nd, 2008
Loopfuse CEO and former co-founder of JBoss Portal, Roy Russo, recently blogged about his impression of the Appcelerator platform after being given a guided tour. ” Five minutes of whiteboarding made me a believer in this new way of RIA development.” Read more
June 5th, 2008
New Advisor Rob Bearden is Sixth Person With JBoss Ties to Join Rich Internet Application Upstart
ATLANTA―June 4, 2008―Rob Bearden, the former chief operating officer of JBoss, has joined the advisory board of Appcelerator, strengthening the company’s aggressive charge into the rich Internet application market. Bearden is the sixth person with JBoss ties to join Appcelerator, whose platform helps companies quickly build Web-based applications with more functionality and less code. [Read more →]
April 30th, 2008
In the world of rich Internet applications (RIAs), there is no shortage of technology choices to compose a user interface. Kevin Winnery explores which tools give you the most bang for your RIA buck in his latest JDJ post here.
April 22nd, 2008
Application Development Trends contributor Becky Nagel recently wrote about Appcelerator’s integration of the Google App Engine into its open source RIA development platform. Read her article, “Appcelerator Enables Google App Engine Portability” here.
