Popfly Explorer Beta

Potential Future Enhancements

We are working on enabling Popfly Explorer users to publish completed projects with support for hosting Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation applications directly from Visual Studio. If you want to give us feedback on this, have questions, or other ideas about how we can improve Popfly Explorer, please let us know on the Popfly Explorer discussion forum.

The 4th of July has just gone by in the US, being the first Independance Day i've spent in the US it's been interesting, firstly work grinds to halt for the whole week with people either taking hokiday time or "working from home" secondly the event causes a whole spate of parades and patritism. Not to mention the odd quizical American asking if we celebrate Indepenace Day in the UK, one can only assume they thought we had to have indpendance from someone, afterall if we celebrated the independance of every former colony we would have more holidays a year than France ;-). Alas the closest we get is Guy Fawkes night and even that invovles very litle flag waving however over here it is all about the parade. Anyhow me and John went to see the Kirkland parade complete with a militaty fly over, which turned out to be 1 coast guard helicopter. The parade itself went on for 2hours and included everything from vets, to the 1982 little league champs to boats complete with skantly glad models on a boat advertising a beauty salon. Unfortuntley I didn't bring my camera and John's ran out of batteries near the the begining. But if you could just imagine lots of people on a sidewalk waving small American flags that would pretty much be it.

Well someone seems to like Popfly, someone other than the people who share the same hallway as me ;-), we ended up top on PC Worlds websites to watch list http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132787-page,2-c,sites/article.html the year to come will be indeed an interesting one for Popfly.

 

Anyway, back to coding the commenting features.

It's about a month since we announced Popfly and today we just did our first update which includes a 148 bugs fixed :-) Not bugs closed by design or dupes but 148 bugs fixed. Yay! :-) There is even some new features like auto async, suggest a block and the console.

There is also a few new blocks:

• Live Search*
• Live Images*
• Live Spell Checker*
• Live Ads*
• Phonebook *
• Live News*
• Straw poll
• Warcraft - WoW (World of Warcraft) Display block
• Photo
• Bar Graph
• PhotoShow

*All the live blocks are courtesy of Ian Hollier on the Live Search team, who did an awesome job and now Popfly actually has some Live blocks :-)  

So let the spot the spelling mistakes game begin!

Back in San Franisco for f8, the launch of the Facebook developer platform. Good keynote from their CEO we even got a mention :). Was kind of interesting to see Microsoft talked about in a neutral/positive light and for Silverlight to be talked about next to flash.

 

It's all about the social and i don't mean Zune.