New Ning Release!
16 Feb 2006We released a new version of Ning today. (Well, for me in NYC it was today. For the crew in Palo Alto, it was a last-night-and-this-morning experience. For the Australian connection, I’m not sure which day(s) we covered!).
Lots of neat new stuff in this release:
- Totally revamped and rewired UI for browsing around the playground, profile management, looking at your app's stats, and other system functions. As someone whose expertise tends towards the "functional but not so pretty", I am really in love with all of Paul's hard work on this design.
- That redesign extends to the Developer Documentation too -- I think it'll be easier and more pleasant to find tech specs and API docs now.
- Speaking of developer stuff, there are a bunch of new skeleton apps that make building web services apps ridiculously quick. Yoz has also put together a snazzy screencast on building a basic photo sharing app with Flickr integration.
- All the Example Apps have been given thorough overhauls, too. Jon did a lot of work on all sorts of color palette arithmetic and GD wizardry so apps now have slick setup pages that let you tweak colors and have that automatically update your entire app.
So take a peek at what’s there and what’s coming and let me know what you think.