In this last period i spent a lot of my free time to adjust the performance of moo.rd, first of all in the webiste: i developed a new and fresh template called “Sparking Milk”, a new download builder, a new forum approach, new documentation features, a new engine for contributing on the developing, and finally, i created this blog.

The new download builder

First of all i want to speak about the new and powerful download builder. Now you can download moo.rd in a totally relaxing way: the engine choose all the components needed by the component you choose. For example, if you choose the toggle_extend.js file, the toggle.js file required will be automatically choosed. And if you deselect the toggle.js file, all the file affected (in this case only the toggle_extend.js file) will be automatically deselected.

So you can make a “bugless” download without reading the file required in the documentation (procedure i suggest in each case, to see how the files are connected).

But the new download builder has another amazing feature: the compression type you can choose.

Now you can choose from four different types of compression:

• compressed: the entire file will be compressed with JS Packer. For reducing dimensions and real usage.
• sourcecode: the entire moo.rd sourcecode, with the official documentation included. Perfect for testing and reading.
• no documentation: only the moo.rd code without documentation. A clean moo.rd version which contains only the Javascript code.
• only documentation: the official moo.rd documentation for offline consulting. It is the same created by MakeDocs (another my private CMS) available online, so you can be sure to have all the necessary: constrcutors, methods, options and arguments descriptions, examples and everything else.

Dev’s Road: a way for contributing

Dev’s Road is another CMS i developed: a simple but powerful application which allows users to open tickets relative to errors, bugs or tips. You can see the changelogs, the currently percentage, all the currently sourcecodes and download the currently dev version relative to the last changeset. “A little Trac”, is how i call Dev’s Road.

I made this software to render moo.rd better and better (Trac also could be useful, but too complex for what i want. However we can always install it, we’ll think about it) and i hope everybody who use my library will contribute reporting possible errors and bugs, so we can have a bugless release (which will be released as a complete feature when all the tickets have been closed).

But Dev’s Road mustn’t be confused with forum: this last one is dedicated to everything about moo.rd, Javascript and MooTools, while Dev’s Road is for developing only. So read the rules before open tickets

moo.rd Dev Team

Started as personal feature, moo.rd has become a bigger project, so i decided to build a Dev Team. You can see the people involved in the Developers page.

The blog

moo.rd is now provided with a blog which you’re reading. Here you will find all the news related to moo.rd: releases, general fetaures/arguments, personal opinions, tutorial and pools.

Some decision will be made as result of either polls and tips, so you can be decisive with your opinion

Sparking Milk

The new template i designed is called “Sparking Milk”: a “toon” white/blue/pink template.

This one is more accessible and more stable: try out the docs and the examples

And finally…

The next releases of moo.rd will contain powerful new features and general enanchements, especially based on the Natives and the Fx effects, and will be based on the version 1.2 of MooTools. So keep track of our work with Dev’s Road and help us to develop a product (i hope it will become a stable “framework which extends a framework”, the marvellous MooTools) which can be useful for every developer.

moo.rd, as MooTools, is developed for Wed Designers and developers.

Enjoy yourself.

Riccardo Degni

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