Thingamy fun...

Days away from a pre-beta (or whatever one might call such) that is much changed - bye to tags, hello to relationships, point-of-time and time-period for numerical reports, refurbished Ajax and much, much more.

Under the skin we have quite a few features lurking and more can be added in a day or so - but we'll wait with that until we're really sure we'll need whatever. Better to keep it simple.

With a quiet weekend on my hand I just had to redo the demo video in the new version and a couple of new yada yada videos on events versus objects and new accounting as well as adding new screenshots. All over at thingamy.com.

Comments

[Declan]

Alpha comes before Beta :-)

[sig]

Hehe, yep, you're right Declan... I think I meant something like "just before beta" or "pretty-well-advanced-for-a never-ending-work-in-progress"?

Think I'll stick to version numbers, build numbers even if such smacks of alpha/beta. Now 2.2.1 build 575, so there :)

[Navaneeth]

Congrats Sid, for reaching this pretty-well-advanced-for-a-never-ending-work-in-progress version... pretty impressive considering what you are trying to do... and it was a long time coming ;-)

[sig]

Thanks Navaneeth!

And of course, now the real work will commence - moving forward to get some real world testing and use feedback and make it more useful! And that I'm thankful for, shall be good fun ;)

[Randy]

I am curious, is this meant as an installed server strictly accessible by browser? Will it be hosted? What is intended track for release of the server?

[sig]

It is a server-based system accessible by browser only.

It can run on your own server (or even laptop for testing) but we might offer hosted one day - the technology is ready for both.

The system comes in zipped form of about 15 Mb and contains everything including webserver and DB - actually, runs nicely off a USB stick for small scale testing and building. Layout is tweakable through accessible css and image files.

Currently we only compile for OS X and Windows but will do most any platform.

Just now we're in a beta phase which includes an increase in number of testers (they're all very patient and forgiving) as well as the beginning of some pilot projects.
Then we'll take it from there.

In essence, I would dare to use it for real world situations in non-critical processes already, then if it works and it gives ideas, expand from there while in the meantime we're further down the line in solidity.
And as many processes we can do would be typical non-supported Barely Repeatable Processes anyway - even in beta we should be more solid than that sheet of paper with business rules that is the current framework for such ad hoc processes. :)