Arcticfusion

Arcticfusion is...

aaronjudd — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:16:00 GMT

Arcticfusion is building a business oriented SOA - MASHUP - WEBTOP to:
1. Merge applications administrative tools from disparate applications into a single Web 2.0 desktop.
2. Integrate tools to pull all these component applications together into a single client.
3. Support all applications with documentation, unified help, and context validation.

Arcticfusion is building an architecture for developers that will:
1. Provide straight-forward way to code and design application once, and distribute in multiple formats (Java, DHTML, Flash)
2. Provide for rapid prototyping
3. Provide for frequent update and delivery of changes
4. Extend and/or integrate application workflow and functionality to unrelated external applications

Arcticfusion is:
1. Community and corporate sponsored
2. Active with a full time dedicated development team
3. Looking for and encouraging community involvement
4. Listening to and willing to work on all proposals
5. Apache 2.0 Licensed

Sometimes, but not always, a picture is worth a thousand words. I'll let you be the judge:
This was a quick diagram and misses some of the finer points, but I think it helps.

webapplica.org

aaronjudd — Wed, 30 May 2007 05:10:00 GMT

Webapplica.org is a new community site, where we are bringing over documentation and ideas from our old coolerserver.org project site, and re-organizing the content to support more than one project. After almost a year of development we had to face the fact that our (formely one) project had forked into two entirely seperate projects.

The first, is a new release of Coolerserver, which is our current software platform. This release will be Coolerserver V2.0 and will include a completely rewritten front end (website side) and significant upgrades to the Coolerserver administration tools.

The second project, a new product, is Arcticfusion Version 1.0. Arcticfusion is platform to deliver a Web 2.0 workspace that unifies all the applications a business may require in a single business-custom browser based work environment. Potential initial Arcticfusion applications are: Accounting, Inventory Management, Web Content Management, Task Manager, Instant Messengering, Calendar Integration, Partner Feed Management.. there is really no limit, this is just naming a few applications already under development!

As we are in the process of building a new project site, that combines all our development activity, please don't mind the under construction aspects - you'll still find lots of information, including links to demo's of versions under development. Please give us feedback. We'd love to hear from you!

I know most reading this are probably curious to know what this actually looks like:
Live, running on a OSX Server, Tomcat, Postgresql / Pre Alpha Release

http://www.webapplica.org:8080/workspace/laszlo/test/desktop.lzx

Currently no password, we'll post it in this forum if we enable one.
This is just a test case, and not the entire application, and changes frequently.

Interesting Sites

aaronjudd — Tue, 22 May 2007 00:57:00 GMT

Posting the first blog entry is sort of a rough task, because it feels a little bit like an assignment in a writing class. I guess I should do all sorts of things, like tell you about Arctic Fusion (RIA Project to bring all other projects together and deliver peace to the world). I could tell you about the team (10 people full timers in United States Philippines, and Brazil). I should tell you that we have been at this for a while, (5 years), and how this is the perfection of our experience trying to build a RIA that brought business tasks together, but realistically, this is still just the beginning.

Well, I am not going to tell you about all those things, but rather, I am going to do what I think blogs are for:... rambling about some interesting things (to me) that I am seeing or thinking about.. usually related to the Arctic Fusion Project.

I thought I would start off with a list of sites that I have been looking at a lot lately. They are either sites that I think may have competing ideas, or maybe they are just plain expressing interesting ideas.. or maybe they are just interesting.

Check these out:
The Universal Desktop
Outsmart Labs
TechCrunch
Effective UI
ReadWriteWeb
DesktopTwo

I KNOW I have left out quite a few that I visit often, and I will add them when I hit them, but in the meantime I would love to hear of others you think are worth looking at!

-Aaron