OpenID integration

Morfik made available yesterday to subscribers of its Morfik Developer Assist (MDA) program a new package for integrating with OpenID providers.  This enables developers to create applications which rely on the services of OpenID compatible authentication to allow access to their applications.

OpenID has been widely adopted by major websites and this should be a nice addition to the tool set of Morfik developers.

Chat/Discussion session for February 2010

It's time for another round of online chat/discussion sessions on using Morfik and this time around our invitation is in the form of a video.

If you are interested in taking part in one of the sessions, please drop me a line and don't forget to mention what timezone you are at.

Localization coming our way...

In case any of you missed it, there is a new post in the official Morfik blog which provides a peak at a localized application.  In this case its the Morfik Security Package that has been translated into several languages.

While it was not made clear what is the time frame for this feature to become available in a production release of Morfik, it is good to know that Morfik will be providing the basic infrastructure to enable easy application localization.     This is so not only because a good deal of business do have customers and users in many countries but also because there are a lot of developers using Morfik to create web based software products.

While this has never seemed to me to be special target audience for Morfik, the product does lend itself quite well for the creation of web based versions of traditional software applications with its binary back-end and browser code obfuscation.

For the developers of such software localization can be a very real requirement and having to implement it without any tool support isn't really fun. This is certainly a welcome addition to the tool set available to the Morfik developer.

Deploying Morfik apps to Amazon EC2...

In a recent blog post, Shahram Mirkazemi of Morfik gives an extensive explanation of the first steps required to deploy a Morfik application onto an Amazon EC2 instance.  In his article he uses a Fedora Core 8 base image to get the instance up and running, having chosen to deploy the application as an Apache loadable module on Linux.

It would be interesting to see this article and its follow up piece mirrored for deployment and configuration on Windows based instances.