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The Crudzilla Web Application Builder now has a name: HiveMind. We have released a set updates mostly having to do with the UI builder in our steady move towards building the ultimate web app delivery platform. Users will also now be able to receive automatic updates without having to download the whole distribution.

Happy new year! We are pleased to announce the release of version 1.5 of the CWAB platform. This release includes bug fixes and some product improvements. The most important and exciting news in this release is the introduction of visual UI driven development. In the future, using the CWAB platform to build applications would be a process of building by using prebuilt UI components and interacting with customization logic. The possibilities with this approach are quite attractive. This release includes the launch of our UI Parts stores. UI Parts are pre-built UI components that may also have back-end logic attached to them. The components would be built to integrate into CWAB applications and allows users to quickly compose highly sophisticated applications with minimal effort. The UI Parts store is fully integrated into the CWAB environment. Going along with the introduction of the UI Parts store is the UI builder now included in CWAB. This is a drag-n-drop enabled facility...

Today we are releasing another set of important updates to CWAB. The Lucene search engine was previously integrated into CWAB, providing powerful search functionality to users. Lucene indexing is now an automatic process; additionally, the search interface and functionality has been improved and simplified. This update also includes the introduction of tooling for CWAB data modeling. CWAB comes with a unique approach to data modeling but we have been previously reluctant to hi-light it until the tooling was better developed. In the next blog post we'll include a quick video to introduce this very powerful functionality.

Today we are releasing another important update to CWAB. The Lucene search engine is now integrated into CWAB providing powerful search functionality to users. This is an initial integration of lucene, currently indexing is a manual process done by right-clicking a file/folder and selecting Index. In the future automated indexing would be added. In addition, the app creation process has been significantly improved. It used to take up to two minutes to create an app, that process is now much improved by moving most of the app creation process to the background. We've also added alpha-level integration of the NetRexx language. CWAB uses the excellent CodeMirror editor. For syntax highlighting we used the Go language mode as a starting point and added the NetRexx keywords. Unfortunately...

Today we are releasing a major update to CWAB. From user feedback we realized the separate navigation of Crudbase and file system assets was causing confusion with users. We have now merged Crudbase operations and file system operations into a single navigational view. Users no longer need to think about the Crudbase when developing applications. The Crudbase is now a background feature that a user can get to by right-clicking "Home". A number of workflow improvements have also been introduced that should make working on CWAB an even more pleasant experience. The task deck also now includes a deck that contains links to Youtube video screencasts demonstrating various aspects of the CWAB platform.

Today we introduce the Crudzilla Web Application Builder (CWAB) platform, a different and refreshing approach to web development tooling. We believe web development tools have hit an evolutionary dead-end and it is time to think afresh about what a modern web developer tool should be about. Should it be about clever tricks and an obsession with code manipulation features, or should it be about enabling the shipment of quality software products? We believe it should be about the latter. Even as existing tools pay lip-service to helping developers build better software, they have often failed to address the most important mission of any tool, which is to boost productivity. When one takes a survey of the landscape for web development tools, it seems the biggest productivity features are still ...