No company can provide all the necessary functionality to solve business problems. That is the reason why we have so many innovative companies providing niche solutions. Over the last couple of years, Software-as-a-service (SaaS) became dominant deployment architecture of innovative software companies. As more and more companies offer their solution in a SaaS deployment model, customers will find that they will require a new breed of software which can connect all these new cloud-based services. Enter Mashup architecture.
Wikipedia defines Mashup as:
“A mashup is a website or application that combines content from more than one source into an integrated experience.”

Companies want to create adhoc business solutions by mashing up disparate web services. Ajuby roadmap is based on achieving that goal. Today we released next version of Ajuby which will take closer to that goal. Following on our motto which is to “be useful first” we created Rails based system which allows data sharing between leading business application (Salesforce, SugarCRM, BaseCamp) and infrastructure service (Amazon S3).
This release includes many new features, lot of bug fixes, better browser compatibility, robust theme management and more. Please refer to Wiki for complete list of features.
Team worked very hard to get all the pieces together, test it, catch bugs, retest it. Rinse, lather, repeat - you know the drill. Writing code is fun but it does take lot of iterations. Thanks to wonderful support by all team members - in particular Deepak, Rajesh, Mayank and Moses deserve special praise for working late hours. Code is the proof!
Ajuby is our first project using open source model and we are learning something new everyday. As it happens with many new things you also develop new ways of doing those things. We internally created adhoc all hands beat-the-software approach called Test Marathon. Everybody at Apptility pitched into Test Marathons. Result is all there on the bug list. Team found many bugs and they fixed nearly all of them.
Please go ahead and download the 0.5 version from Google Code repository. Your comments and wish list will be greatly appreciated.
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