As most of you might know, we’ve been doing the beta program for Pagico 3.2 on both platforms for almost four months, and the benefit of this long beta has been outstanding: we were able to locate and fix many bugs and glitches based on the vast amount of inputs from our users, and more importantly, many very creative and useful improvements were made during this period. And because of this, the most recent beta releases have been very stable and come with very few known-issues left.
Proxy Support
However, there is only one thing which is still being testing in our tiny lab — the support for proxy servers. Reported by many users, especially those who work in big corporations that use web proxy servers to handle internet connection for computers, people behind a proxy server could not even activate the program, not to mention the MobileNote feature and other network-dependent features in the program. And this is not tolerable. So we’ve spent the time, totally rewrote the network library in the Pagico framework, so it has the capability of communicating through a proxy server.
Cross-Compiled Framework
Also, we’ve recompiled the entire Pagico framework for Mac systems as four-way universal binaries, so now there is only one installer package for all the possible mac platforms, compared to four in the past. There’s no feature-wise improvements, but fewer parts means fewer problems.
The direct benefit for normal users would be the size of the installer package shrink to almost half of its brother.
In the future…
So here’s something about the future. Among all other improvements on our plan, the most major improvement would be the data-engine upgrade. Right now we’re using a close-source light-weight database engine that worked wonderfully in the past year. However, we’re not stopped here. We want to push the reliability, performance, and usability to the next level, by switching to a more powerful yet industry-standard database system.
With this kind of data engine, the direct benefit for users will be tremendous:
- Easier to backup and restore
- Up to 5 times faster
- Faster performance means more possibilities for load-intense features
- The data can be accessed by other applications
- And more.
In addition, a theme switcher will be introduced, so users can choose their own favorite user interface (one of the most important advantage of Pagico framework over regular applications) by just a few clicks. And, web designers will be able to design new themes on their own.
At last but not least, network-based collaboration. You know, and we know you wanted it. There are tons of tough competitors on this market now, but we are confident that Pagico is a very unique platform, which has a lot of potential in this direction. We have lots of advantages that other players don’t have.
Okay, now it’s time to back to “now”. Right now we’re still testing the newly compiled framework, as well as the proxy support, so soon there will be a new beta release. Once these two issues are tackled, we’re good to go! 😀
Have a great weekend!
Meng