We are getting a lot closer to the feature set that we plan for initial release of Dolphin U. This update (alpha 9) is a significant and very important leap forward. Most notably, Dolphin U now has a new Video Transcoder, which has already been used in the new "Timeline Videos" feature. So, you can upload videos to Timeline and
The new Video Transcoder provides powerful features and very simplified interface for developers. Working with video is as simple as working with images using Images Transcoder. Converted files are automatically stored it in the storage engine. It generates .mp4 and .webm videos to support HTML5 video playing in all modern browsers:
Today's update of Dolphin U Alpha is one of the most significant since we started public testing. There are new features, core improvements and design changes. Let's see what we've done...
“What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” ― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Dolphin U development is further progressing, with almost all planned features finally emerging and small refinements coming in droves . There're still some known issues, a few nifty things to add and a fair bit of polishing to do, but Dolphin U is definitely shaping up as a fantastic community platform! Main Improvements in Alpha 6 - In this update we've improved
The new approach for handling date/time in Dolphin U have the following nice advantages. Real-time updates for relative time The following is happening without page reload:
Time is speeding up. BoonEx is 14. Yay!
Dolphin U has been under active development for over 3 years and during the last few months we've been running limited preview rounds among developers, so that they could start preparing their products for Dolphin U. Today, we're offering you - Premium Members - to have a look at what all the buzz is about. This is still an Alpha version,
Dolphin U consists of two main components - website front-end and Studio. There is no “admin panel” as such. Content manageme nt is done through the website by appointed admins and moderators. Studio is for the website management . Everything that has to do setting up, modifying, re-designing, localisin g and extending website functionality is done via Studio by the main webmaster.
A lot has been done in Dolphin U for improving security and code quality. But not only Dolphin code was changed - we build great development environment to make development faster with better code quality. The best available tools allow us to make development more productive and collaborative. Here is an overview of the enhancements in the code and development environment
User profiles in Dolphin U are very different from Dolphin Classic. One member account can have many profiles of different types.
Developer Preview of Dolphin U starts today. Some of the main developers at BoonEx Market will be receiving private invitations and links to private discussion forums. We want to keep this round limited to small number of people, so that most of the web-masters could start testing a more polished version a little later. Thank you for your patience and
This is sample test module for Dolphin U (a.k.a Dolphin 8) with some instructions on how to add Pages and Menus to it using Developer module. It is simple starting point to get into Dolphin U module structure or it can be used as a base for own modules.
Two weeks of Dolphin 8 Private Preview passed and the feedback from the first group of testers has been absolutely invaluable! We have made quite a few improvements, changes and reassessments. Perhaps the most notable one is that Dolphin 7 and Dolphin 8 will now be separated into two different products - Dolphin Classic (current D7) and Dolphin U (current D8).