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Streamlined 0.9 is now available for download. From the rich and handy quick-add interface to the super-flexible and highly-interactive advanced filtering, this release packs a big punch in terms of quickly empowering your end users with a serious data management interface. In addition to introducing the aforementioned heavy hitters, it also makes standard many common idioms to increase the overall usability of your apps (e.g., auto-labeling for required fields) and offers some optional usability enhancers (mmmm, tasty breadcrumbs) as well.

Of course, those are just some of the many improvements available in Streamlined 0.9. Be sure to check out the release notes for full details, including screen shots and links to additional docs.

As we approach 1.0, Streamlined continues to position itself as the solution for developing an instant, production-ready UI for your ActiveRecord models. So, what are you waiting for? Stop banging rocks together and build something!

I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Michael Kimsal for a diverse and enjoyable episode of WebDevRadio. Over the course of about 30 minutes, we tackle such topics as Groovy, Grails, Ruby, Streamlined, and the No Fluff, Just Stuff tour.

If you’ve listened to WebDevRadio in the past, you know that Michael comes primarily from a PHP and Perl background. Throw those languages in the mix with Ruby and Groovy, and that’s a whole lot of dynamic language goodness for 30 minutes of podcasting! (We try not to leave any of the low-level languages too battered and bruised, but their extra baggage has simply become too much to bear for day-to-day application development.)

While the podcast itself is obviously intended to focus on web development, in this particular interview, developer productivity may very well outshine web development as the overriding theme. We discuss the profound impact of convention-over-configuration, the future of opinionated software, and whether there’s ever such a thing as too much choice.

Many thanks to Michael for having me on the podcast.

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By the time you’ve knocked out your first few Rails apps, you’re probably not particularly excited about starting another UI from scratch. You’re still jazzed about the fact that ActiveRecord is going to save you from all the boilerplate ORM plumbing, and you’re psyched to be developing in a dynamic (and elegant and powerful) language like Ruby, but it’s hard to actually look forward to manually wiring up the relationships in the UI (again), tediously tying in Ajax in all the usual places (again), implementing live search (again), adding in pagination and sortable lists (again), and, well, you get the idea. Developing in Rails is supposed to be enjoyable, so we need something to bring the overall pleasantness of Rails into these areas of application development as well.

Enter Streamlined…

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