24 hours after pushing Apptacular out, I have over 150 downloads, and only 2 reported problems.
Awesome!
One of the problems was that a user tried to run Apptacular against a database without primary keys. Apptacular and ORM in general have a dependency on primary keys. I should make that clearer in the documents, and error, and I will. But just know that.
And let's be clear here, pretty is not superficial. It's not just about chrome and bling. It's about making application that your users want to use instead of apps that your users have to use.
So if you'd like to see how to turbo charge your front end development with effective, pretty, ui's come to my session:
If you want to participate in building Apptacular, you want to look at the source, and tests, etc. Check it out on GitHub: http://bit.ly/ApptacularGitHub
If you want to know more about what Apptacular can do for you, check out these tutorial videos:
Once again I'm happy to be participating in an awesome Philadelphia based event.
On July 21-22 Wharton will host the Higher Education Web Symposium, an event that brings developers, designers and IT managers from Higher Education together to talk about making web experiences better. It's open to the public, so if you are not in Higher Ed, but it sounds interesting, feel free to sign up.
I'll be talking about Flash Catalyst, and showing how it can be used to quickly create interfaces for your web applications.
For my second video in the series, I'll show you how to take a Flash Catalyst interactive composition and turn it into a stand-alone application using Flash Builder and Adobe AIR.
For my first video in this series, I'll show you how to take an idea from one of Adobe's design tools (Fireworks) to a working prototype using Flash Catalyst