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Presto 3.2: Got Mobile?

Posted 11/29/2011 - 01:37 by Deepak Alur

Over the past few months, the Presto team has been busy crafting yet another release full of goodies. This time, we focused on Mobility!
We are pleased to announce that Presto 3.2 is here and you can get it now!
Let me tell you a bit about what's in the release. We are introducing a new add-on to Presto platform called Presto Mobile. It provides a whole new way of creating Apps that work on desktops, smart phones and tablets. Presto Mobile has the smarts to recognize how the user is accessing the app, and deliver the right user experience based on the user's choice of access - desktop, phone or tablet. Using Presto Mobile, you create just one app. And Presto Mobile takes care of presenting device specific user interface for that app to the users. For instance, if a user accesses that App from his desktop browser, you will see a desktop browser compatible web application. But, if the user accesses the same App using an iPhone, then Presto will present him with a mobile touch based version with the same level of functionality as the browser version. The app looks and feels like any other mobile app on the iPhone. Similarly, when that app is accessed via an iPad, Presto delivers a touch based version that takes advantage of the larger screen. Create an App once, and it adapts and runs anywhere - desktop, smartphone or tablet! Seeing is believing, so take a look at this quick tour video (< 10 minutes). [Read More...]

New Release: Mashup Sites for SharePoint 3.1.1

Posted 08/01/2011 - 10:40 by jess

Today we are excited to release Mashup Sites for SharePoint 3.1.1 for SharePoint 2007 (MOSS) and SharePoint 2010, with full support for Presto 3.1.1.

Mashup Sites for SharePoint enables organizations to support Real-Time Business Intelligence solutions in SharePoint, allowing SharePoint business users to publish native web part based business Apps and to visually assemble interactive dashboards. SharePoint users can securely share their Apps and Dashboards with other users in both SharePoint 2007 and 2010 as well as with users of other Enterprise Portals, including IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebCenter and Weblogic, and Liferay. Mashup Sites for SharePoint 3.1.1 features include: [Read More...]

padmin with SSL – Getting past SSL Handshake Exception

Posted 03/01/2011 - 16:44 by Mike Bennett

Introduction

For security purposes, many organizations choose to entirely disable plain HTTP traffic to their servers in favor of the encryption (and sometimes authentication) provided by HTTPS. Presto’s server side is agnostic to the transport, and lets the application server do its part. The same is almost true for Presto’s command line administration tools (padmin and migrate), as well as Presto’s EMML command line client tools (emml, emmlpub, macropub).

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Presto 3.1 is here!

Posted 01/19/2011 - 18:37 by Deepak Alur

It's only been a few months since the release of Presto 3.0 and Presto 3.1 is already available for download. We think you'll like it: Presto 3.1 ‘Mobile Edition’ includes enhancements for the deployment of Presto Apps to mobile devices!

Other highlights in Presto 3.1 include more App visualizations, an easy way to create snapshots from any App, a new SQL block in Wires, and enhanced migration capabilities. You'll also find new-and-improved migration assistance, with a better migration utility and migration tips.

Without further ado, here is the complete list of Presto 3.1 features. We hope you see something that sparks your interest. Happy App building! [Read More...]

Running Presto 3.x/Tomcat as a Windows Service

Posted 12/21/2010 - 15:35 by Mike Bennett

Introduction

The other day one of our customers asked me for help getting Presto/Tomcat up and running as a Windows service. What I thought should be a fairly simple task turned into tedious hours of Googling, tweaking, and re-trying various things to no avail until I finally realized the problem. If you’re banging your head against your screen trying to get Tomcat to run as a Windows Service then read on.

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Give Mashups and Apps a shot!

Posted 11/28/2010 - 23:54 by Deepak Alur

I was trying out Prezi to talk about why people should look at Apps and Mashups...Here is something I put together I wanted to share...

If you need to rapidly deliver real-time insights and information to your business users, bringing data from various places together and deliver them in user friendly easy to use form, why not check out how to do it with Enterprise Mashups and Apps? [Read More...]

A hidden gem in Presto

Posted 10/17/2010 - 03:19 by nzblue_fish

Hi Mashers,

I've been meaning to blog on this topic for a long time, but being pulled off on others projects meant a bit of time away from doing more on my favourite technology, mashups and apps.

With the release of Presto 3.0 I knew I had to make a start on some new mashups. We've recently started using Yammer internally, and I thought Presto would provide a great way to tap in to the Yammer API so that I could create an App to show a live running feed on the homepage of our intranet. [Read More...]

The App Tips Blog: Getting Personal with Inputs

Posted 10/08/2010 - 13:26 by chriswarner

I hope you've been finding our App Tips Blogs helpful and useful. Recently, we taught you how to Reduce Noise Pollution with the Filter block in Presto Wires. This week things will 'get personal' by building an App from a Filtered Mashup with user-friendly input boxes to make the App, well, personal. [Read More...]

The App Tips Blog: Reducing Noise Pollution by Filtering Your Mashup Data

Posted 09/14/2010 - 13:15 by chriswarner

I hope you’ve been keeping up with all the great App Tips blogs here on the Community. A few weeks back we highlighted the 'Advanced Mode' in App Maker. [Read More...]

The App Tips Blog: Keep It Fresh with Auto Refresh

Posted 08/30/2010 - 11:18 by MiMi Levine

Every so often we find something in Presto 3.0 that is so cool and useful we want to share these tips with you. [Read More...]