Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps

Bobby Jasper writes to tell us that The Firebird Database Community News has an interesting writeup on Morfik, a new development tool for beginning web applications. Morfik boasts increased developer productivity going so far as to draw comparisons between themselves and the current industry as VB 1.0 was to GUI development. After five years of development they are getting ready to release an evaluation version of their software, might be worth a look.

Comments

realy?

[Anonymous Coward]

So it's the First,Post VB, gui like tool?

windows only

[Anonymous Coward]

Morfik development environment itself is a Windows application

You might have mentioned that in the writeup so non-MSCEs
didn't waste their time reading TFA

Re:windows only

[jurt1235]

They could have saved themselves several years of development by using opensource. A tool similar to morfik (MVC model, ajax development, some datamodelling) is for example this one: http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/AvailableOp enProjects/backbase-eclipse.doc

There are probably a lot more (google on +eclipse +plugin +ajax gives 234.000 hits)

Well its got the buzzwords

[Viol8]

"Revolutionary new", "smart client" , "feature-rich", "unplugged", "ground breaking".

Perhaps I'm a cynic but I always feel that a products real value is inversely proportional to
the amount of marketdroid BS in the write-ups. If I'm correct then this is just Yet-Another-IDE
that is (and wow, like this is so radical dude , well if would be if it was 1990 again) - a Smart
Client! Jeez... how many times we been here before?

Re:Well its got the buzzwords

[rjshields]

Could it be that this development tool is aimed at other marketdroids? I can just imagine them dragging in some feature-rich controls and clicking the "generate ground breaking web app" button.

Great!

[Anonymous Coward]

I have been waiting for something like this, finally I can merge the syntactic and semantic elegance of VB with the power and speed of a compiled language with a fast WYSIWYG development and deployment cycle!

Paid

[dg41]

OK, who paid for the Slashdot press release on this?

Lot's of nice words, but where is the software?

[master_p]

For something so grand as they claim, their first job would be to post an evaluation download for everyone to see. I followed the links, but I found nothing; I only found lots of buzzwords, claims and hype.

I don't claim Morfik is vaporware. But let's see it first, and then we can say if it is indeed 'VB 1.0 for the web'.

Languages & Morfik

[jurt1235]

Morfik claims to be the next generation IDE. Totally for the webbrowser. So what do they build it with: Delphi.
That is not being true to yourself. Build an AJAX version than to show the power of what you believe in.
An AJAX version would also make the more and more preferred development environments accessible to them: Mac OS X and Linux (Around me I hear more and more developers choosing for Linux as their main platform, and if Apple would release OS X for the cheap intel hardware, that they will try that too, at least just to see).

Where are the web standards

[zxSpectrum]

Assuming that they actually eat their own dog food, and use their own tool to create their Own site, I wouldn't trust this tool. Their site is an inaccessible piece of table-based rubble with missing alternative texts all over the place. Not even Slashdot in it's old incarnation was this ugly, standards-wise.

Adding to that, their site is severly SEO-deoptimized, which might -- now that I think of it -- be a good thing to end-users, as this will undoubtedly reduce the spread of said markup rubble

Why is this even on /.?!

[Qa1]

This is basically a commercial for some source software package. They haven't released code. They haven't even releasd a closed source evaluation version. All they "released" is some web page with lots of hysterical marketing hype and unsubstantiated vague buzzwords ("JST").

So why, again, is this on /.?

What the fuckity fuck?

[kmmatthews]

How can anyone possibly claim this isn't an ad?

It's an "article" for a CLOSED SOURCE, WIN32 VAPORWARE PRODUCT that LIKENS ITSELF TO VISUAL BASIC.

For god sakes, that's like saying "WOW!!! THIS IS AS FUN AS AIDS!"

2 months to copy gmail with it??

[192939495969798999]

From the site:
"To demonstrate these powerful capabilities, two Morfik programmers used Morfik JST to build a desktop version of Google's Gmail in just 2 months! The application they created is a pixel-by-pixel match of Gmail's interface and functionality, yet it also works offline just like standard email clients such as Microsoft Outlook..."

2 Months?! That doesn't sound like any rapid app development to me. I can go make a copy of gmail in about 3 hours just by downloading the HTML/javascript. Also, it "works" just like Outlook? I'm not sure that's a feature!

Sadly misled.....

[ralf1]

My RSS feed truncated the title as "Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern We". Somehow my brain assumed "We" was going to be "weapons" - Morfik just seemed like a Defense Department kind of name for a top secret weapons project.

I was really hoping for some kind of macho article about "this new technology can kill effortlessly 10,000 civilians using a rechargable solar battery as a power source, making it a exceptional weapon and environmentally conscious as well"

Life is full of these little disappointments....