Version 2 Software, LLC

About a week ago I received my copy of Openfire Administration from Packt Publishing. I'll have a full review of the book soon but in the mean time I wanted to post a sample chapter for people to look at and read for themselves. Enjoy! 

Several significant features are included in this release. Please refer to the change log for the features and issue numbers.

Here are the highlights:

• Provide users with an opportunity to save a whiteboard prior to closing a whiteboard or creating a new one.
• Added an invitation layer when starting a new one-on-one (i.e., non-group) whiteboard session.
• Added a notification layer to alert whiteboard session participants when a new whiteboard is created or an existing one is closed.
• Reworked the property dialog so that a shape's color and opacity can be set in one place and are updated on-the-fly.
• Give ability to resize a shape by dragging a shape's selection handles.
• Support for more graphic types for creating image shapes.
• Track world and screen coordinates in the status bar as the mouse is moved.
• Add the ability to export a drawing as an image.

We hope you enjoy the changes. As always, we look forward to hearing from you. We especially want to say thank you to those of you who provided feedback and code snippets in our V2 Whiteboard Group.

The Version 2 Team

I've been using GWT for a few months now and it dawned on me that the purpose of web frameworks is to provide MVC capabilities on the server to compensate for their absence on the client. With GWT, however, you get MVC on the client and the need for a web framework disappears in the arena of web applications. MVC was invented in Smalltalk for client code. Using a Javascript rich client (e.g., GWT), MVC once again lives on the client so the web framework is unnecessary. Caveat: these remarks pertain to web applications. For a multipage web site as opposed to a web application, I think web frameworks still have a place.

We are pleased to announce the release of Version 0.0.3 of the V2 Whiteboard. You can review the new features listed in the change log. Among the features are :

• Send to Back/Bring to Front
• Automatic check on startup for new versions
• Improved the way "selected" elements are displayed
• Implemented ability to pan

If you wish to discuss this release or planned features for new releases, join us at the V2 Whiteboard Group.

We hope you enjoy it!
The Version 2 Team

Well, it took a bit longer than we had anticipated but the time has come to announce version 0.0.2 of the Whiteboard Sparkplug. There are a number of improvements which you can read about in the change log here, but the two that I'm most excited about are a revised toolbar that remains fixed and locked regardless of the canvas size, and preliminary support for working on a whiteboard with a group.

Enjoy!

Version 1.0.1 of the Shared Editor is now available for download. There's virtually no difference between 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 other than the latter now works properly with Spark 2.5.0. Version 1.0.0 of the Shared Editor will still be available here for those of you using Spark 2.0.7 or 2.0.8.

We're also in the process of updating V2Whiteboard so it works with Spark 2.5.0. In addition to fixing the compatibility issue, the next version will have some UI improvements, bug fixes and a new feature or two as time allows.

Cheers,
Ryan

We're super excited to announce the initial release of a peer-to-peer whiteboard sparkplug for Spark. We've been using the tool internally for a while now and have found it be really helpful in communicating various thoughts and ideas that are difficult to do with just words. We're anxious to get people's feedback (good or otherwise) to help drive the direction of the tool and find out what features you want to see. You can read more about it here.

Enjoy!
The Version 2 Team