DevTreks / News: Recent posts

DevTreks Beta 0.8.9 is a calculator and resource stock accounting release. Machinery selection and scheduling calculators and analyzers are now available. Links that explain this release can be found under What's New on the Home page at:http://devtreks.cloudapp.net/Home/Index/.

DevTreks beta 0.8.7 is the first production server release.
Beta testing has started using this version. A video
overview of this release will be posted to www.devtreks.org.

DevTreks Beta 0.8.5 upgraded linked views state management to the new state management introduced in the last release.

DevTreks beta 0.8.4.1 is a cloud computing release.

DevTreks Beta 0.8.3 is a general debug/data access/'nod to cloud computing' release. DevTreks will start online testing and then decide whether to nod further.

This release expands the DevTreks product line to include desktop,
Intranet, Internet, and forthcoming cloud computing versions.
The desktop and intranet versions can be deployed using 'free'
Windows 7 technologies (i.e. IIS, Sql Server LocalDb or Sql Server Express).

June 12, 2011. DevTreks beta 1 is now available. The business side of DevTreks begins.

Alpha 8c continues the Extensions API ('App Store') and linked views
management upgrade. New agricultural resource stock calculators and analyzers support agricultural, and natural resources, stock budgeting. This release further strengthens the interrelationships among calculators and analyzers.

Alpha 8b continues the Extensions API ('App Store') upgrade.
Nothing major in this release, but its time to go camping and there
is no point in leaving perfectly good bits sitting around (when they
could be helping people deal with microeconomic issues in the world).

Alpha 8a continues the Extensions API ('App Store') upgrade.
The API has adopted the same model as used in the rest of DevTreks.
Additional improvements simplified and strengthened relationships
among calculators, analyzers and storytellers. These changes resulted
in extensive upgrades to the API, calculators, analyzers, schemas and
database. New food nutrition calculators provide examples of these
improvements. This is probably the first build I'd feel comfortable
using in the field.

Alpha 7a upgrades the Extensions API. Calculators, analyzers,
and storytellers have a stronger foundation and are easier to
build and maintain. Four new cost effectiveness analyzers are
included in this release. A video demonstrating this release will
be added to www.devtreks.org.

DevTreks Alpha 6c fixes bugs, upgrades file system management, and cleans up the db. Work starts on new analyzers after the holidays.

Alpha 6b upgrades devpacks and tempdocs to the new linked views pattern. Sample case studies, food recipes (semi-illustration purposes only), and dictionaries, have also been updated to the new linked view patterns. The DevTreks home web site has video overviews of this release.

Alpha 6a simplifies and strengthens linked views, locals, classifications, and addins/extensions. Linked views have lost their clunkiness and become easy to use. Online testing won't begin until more analyzers are built and these new ugrades jell. Watch for online videos showing how to use the new linked views.

Alpha 5c has an assortment of bug fixes and enhancements involving
addins and extensions, search engines, security, ebook packages, document edits, html, lists, forms, and club management. This version also previews a prototype of the new service agreement subscription payment system. Video overviews of DevTreks are available at http://www.devtreks.org .

A 45 minute video overview of DevTreks is now available at:
www.devtreks.org (Snapshots)

Alpha 5b simplifies and strengthens the story apps
and addins and extensions. Addins and extensions will be
continually improved and expanded.

Alpha 5a includes the first new addin and extension analyzers.
Third parties can use the existing calculators and analyzers as examples showing how to extend DevTreks with new addins and extensions*. Addins and extensions will continue to be refined as new ones get built.

*i.e.: life cycle, options, risk, stock and flow, carbon, energy, food nutrition, livestock, story telling, price indexes, human capital, social capital, supply, demand, ...

Alpha 4c is the first release of the new addin and extension calculators.
Third parties can use the existing dozen calculators as examples showing how to extend DevTreks with new addins and extensions. These new calculators are still raw and will be refined further as the new addin and extension analyzers get built.

The release includes a 'core' data set that can be used to verify that most calculations match those found in the Applied and Agricultural Economists Association publication, 'Commodity Costs and Returns Estimation Handbook' (1998).

DevTreks Alpha 4b simplifies and strengthens addin and extension calculators. The new streaming techniques improve performance and increase flexibility (by allowing large document calculations to be run better). The move from xml attribute programming to object programming is stronger and uses less code. The new addin and extension apis are reasonably powerful and easy to use.

DevTreks calculators, analyzers, and story tellers are being upgraded so that they can be extended by third parties using either add-ins (Managed Addin Framework) or extensions (Managed Extensability Framework). In addition, the new story-telling feature allows any schema/stylesheet duo to be used in a story.

Alpha 4 upgrades all story-telling with one very basic, simple,
'story' data pattern, schema, and stylesheet. Basic, simple, stories
and eBook packages can be built and edited online. Unlike many wikis,
these comply with w3.org standards and they are machine friendly
(and you can build as many schemas as your network deems necessary).

Alpha 3e is a general debug. It also upgrades
the software's family budgeting capabilities, including
the addition of a new 'Food Nutrition Input' calculator,
and a new 'Meal Recipe' schema/stylesheet/story.

DevTreks alpha 3d has been released.

Alpha 3d is a general bug fix -tweaking pagination, navigation,
packaging, file system storage, page validation, security,
locals, and linked views.

The DevTreks Japan sourceforge site does not include all of the files released (the database changes). That site should not be used.