Today we want to highlight a widget that has been submitted to the Mendix App Store: Environment Badges. The widget helps you figure out what environment you are looking at (development, test, acceptance or production) by showing a badge in the upper-right corner. Never make the mistake of editing production data again!
This is obviously a development environment.
We have released patches for version 3 and 4 of the Mendix Business Modeler this week. These versions contain fixes for issues reported by our partners. You can find both installers and the release notes on the App Store: 4.4.3 and 3.3.6.
Important Note: if you have upgraded to 4.4.0 or 3.3.5 or applied the manual Firefox 18 fix, we highly recommend upgrading to 4.4.3 or 3.3.6 and removing the manual fix. Read on for an explanation.
The Mendix Version Selector introduced in version 4.3.0 automatically selects the Modeler of the right version when you open a Mendix project file (.mpr). If you have multiple versions of the Modeler installed this can be a great time saver. Without the version selector you had to remember which project was created in which version and open the corresponding Modeler yourself. And the version selector not only works for 4.3.0 and newer but for all versions of Mendix! So, even if you are using older versions you can still benefit from having the version selector on your system. Continue reading
In version 4.3.0 we improved security by limiting access to the server to requests from the same machine. In other words, trying to connect to the Mendix runtime from another computer will fail by default. Continue reading
Important Note: Please read the post about version 4.4.3 and 3.3.6. The fix described below introduces other problems and we recommend skipping these versions and upgrading to 4.4.3 and 3.3.6 instead. Also, if you applied the manual JavaScript fix, we urge you to remove it from your index.html
Firefox 18 introduces a new Javascript engine called IonMonkey. The creators claim that performance is enhanced, but that is not what this post is about. Mendix applications with complicated forms can run into a “too much recursion” error and start behaving unpredictably. Continue reading
Whether you like it or not, your software will contain bugs. Any app of reasonable size fails for certain inputs, under high load or under other sorts of unforeseen circumstances. Continue reading
It’s rather cold outside, at least in the northern hemisphere, but here’s something that will warm you up: This morning we updated the Mendix App Platform and there are some pretty cool new features that we’d like you to see. Continue reading
