Tech Log
Keep track of our latest developments.
Find out what's new across all of our technology streams.
14 Jan 2021 | Bean Utils 1.0.12 Utilities and software patterns commonly associated with data objects. Minor updates. |
12 Jan 2021 | IoC Config 1.1.2 An IoC library for providing injectable config values. Read config from |
11 Jan 2021 | Pod Builder Ext 1.1.8 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Bug fix. Thanks to Carlos Garcia for reporting. |
07 Jan 2021 | eLearning trial version implementation We are now able to offer official trial versions of our courses, with restricted course assessments and a limited access time period. |
06 Jan 2021 | Updated course instructions New look and updated information for our welcome aboard instructions for courses - and extensions! |
06 Jan 2021 | New Launchpad Amended the Mars Dashboard to show trial versions and display new messages. |
04 Jan 2021 | New public course reviews page Course reviews with public comments are now published automatically onto the site, on their very own page. |
03 Jan 2021 | New eLearning FAQs page Created a new eLearning FAQs page, and with new resource articles for step by step guidance. |
03 Jan 2021 | New reselling page Created a new page all about reselling our courses including who our partners are. |
02 Jan 2021 | New online shop page Redesigned our online course shop page, and with new Time Capsules. |
30 Dec 2020 | Created Launchpad community site Created the first community site for the Project Haystack community to share events and ideas. |
25 Dec 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.1.6 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Bug fix. Thanks to Carlos Garcia for reporting. |
23 Dec 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.1.4 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Records may be edited from the Folio / trio files view. Thanks to Ian Habermann of AFM for the suggestion. |
16 Dec 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.1.2 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Bug fixes. Thanks to Carlos Garcia and Ian Habermann for reporting the issues. |
08 Dec 2020 | HTTP Client Ext 2.0.8 Axon functions for making HTTP requests to REST APIs New function for adding query parameters to Uris. Thanks to Stephen Frank for the suggestion. |
27 Nov 2020 | Launch of our YouTube channel Launched our very first YouTube channel with playlists for software, eLearning and tech talks. |
25 Nov 2020 | New course certificate designs Redesigned the course certificates with our new styling, and to capture each certificate serial number - new feature! |
20 Nov 2020 | New branding release Worked with Lemontop creative agency to produce an updated company brand design - a new set of brand guidelines and an exciting new look! |
18 Nov 2020 | Alpha Colony 2.3.3 Select a custom avatar in your user profile (with Flicking). |
17 Nov 2020 | Axonator Ext 1.0.8 Encrypts and obfuscates Axon source code Minor updates. |
15 Nov 2020 | Axon Core 2.0 More questions, more story, more awesomeness! |
11 Nov 2020 | Axon Journal 2.0 Complete re-write of the reference material. Still FREE! |
07 Nov 2020 | Fandoc 0.0.6 Alternative and extensible Fandoc writers that provide intelligent context. API updates. |
31 Oct 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.1.0 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Internal optimisations. |
25 Oct 2020 | Alpha Colony 2.3.1 New thumbs up / thumbs down rating feature to allow immediate feedback on course sections during training. |
25 Oct 2020 | SkySpark Analyst - Ratings Added Thumbs up / Thumbs down rating sections throughout the course, across all 3 locales. |
19 Oct 2020 | Watts Up 1.0 Released our FREE mini SkySpark challenge - Watt's Up!? |
12 Oct 2020 | Alpha Colony 2.2.0 New Course Review feature to automatically prompt and capture a course review at the end of a training course. |
11 Oct 2020 | Alpha Colony 2.1.0 Released new Notifications feature. |
08 Oct 2020 | Pickle 1.0.0 Pickles Fantom objects to and from strings API updates. |
08 Oct 2020 | Pickle 0.0.4 Pickles Fantom objects to and from strings First public release of Pickle, base code liberated from core Fantom serialisation framework. |
05 Oct 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.0.6 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Bug fix. Thanks to Leroy Simms of ABI Advantage LLC for reporting. |
05 Oct 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.0.4 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions New archive functionality for records. |
30 Sep 2020 | Belimo Cloud Fin Ext 1.0.0 FIN 5 Connector for the Belimo Cloud API First public release. |
28 Sep 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction New login page design by Wade. |
21 Sep 2020 | Alpha Colony 2.0.3 Sticky sidebar to ease course navigation. |
13 Sep 2020 | EfanXtra 2.0.6 A library for creating reusable Embedded Fantom (efan) components API updates. |
28 Aug 2020 | SkySpark Analyst 2.0 Publicly released SkySpark Analyst 2.0. More questions, more story, more awesomeness! Updated content to be compatible with the latest SkySpark 3.0.25. |
26 Aug 2020 | Alpha Colony 2.0.0 Released whole new look for the Dashboard and course pages, based on new Alpha Colony site designs from Chis Wade at Pixel Much. |
26 Aug 2020 | Axon Core - SkySpark 3.0.25 Updated course to be compatible with the latest SkySpark 3.0.25. |
21 Aug 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.0.2 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions Bug fixes. Thanks to Jaap Balvers of BAM for reporting an issue. |
18 Aug 2020 | Tutorial 1.4 Renamed "Induction Training" to "Tutorial". Rewrote and simplified course to make it more of a "How to" guide. |
12 Aug 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction New cartoon Monologue images, drawn by Sadun. |
12 Aug 2020 | Duvet 1.1.12 Something soft and comfortable to wrap your Javascript up in! API updates. |
04 Aug 2020 | Pod Builder Ext 1.0.0 Transform your Axon functions, Views, and Apps, into custom SkySpark extensions First public release. |
28 Jul 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Added a Story-mode toggle switch. |
28 Jul 2020 | SkySpark Analyst - French translation Translated the entire course content into French to offer as an additional locale option. |
27 Jul 2020 | Pegger 1.1.4 Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) for when Regular Expressions just aren't enough! API updates. |
14 Jul 2020 | HTTP Client Ext 2.0.6 Axon functions for making HTTP requests to REST APIs Bug fix. Thanks go to Joe Firrantello for reporting. |
08 Jul 2020 | HTML Parser 0.2.8 Because only Chuck Norris can parse HTML with regular expressions API updates. |
04 Jul 2020 | Axont Ext 0.0.10 Unit test runner and assertion functions for Axon Minor updates. |
21 Jun 2020 | Axon Journal 1.0 Free supplemental Axon reference course given FREE upon completion of Axon Core. |
17 Jun 2020 | Rebrand of product icons Rebranded our course product icons with updated graphics. |
10 Jun 2020 | Mongo 1.1.12 A pure Fantom driver for MongoDB API updates. |
01 Jun 2020 | Fandoc 0.0.4 Alternative and extensible Fandoc writers that provide intelligent context. API updates. |
01 Jun 2020 | Google Analytics 0.1.10 An IoC service to render Google's Universal Analytics script API updates. |
01 Jun 2020 | Sleep Safe 1.0.6 Sleep safe knowing you're guarded against CSRF, XSS, and other web attacks API updates. |
19 May 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Model answers may be shown for Axon questions. |
19 May 2020 | HTTP Client Ext 2.0.4 Axon functions for making HTTP requests to REST APIs API updates. |
18 May 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Axon questions may now be attempted X number of times during an assessment. |
17 May 2020 | Mongo 1.1.10 A pure Fantom driver for MongoDB Support for MongoDB 4.2. |
17 May 2020 | Json 2.0.10 A JSON to Fantom object mapping library API updates. |
16 May 2020 | Axon Docs Ext 0.1.4 View Axon Documentation categorised for dot operator use Minor updates. |
15 May 2020 | Alpha Colony 1.2.8 Removed print styling. |
15 May 2020 | EfanXtra 2.0.4 A library for creating reusable Embedded Fantom (efan) components API updates. |
13 May 2020 | Axont Ext 0.0.8 Unit test runner and assertion functions for Axon Minor updates. Thanks to John MacEnri of Crawley Carbon for the pull request. |
04 May 2020 | Belimo Cloud Ext 1.0.2 SkySpark Connector for the Belimo Cloud API Updated to use SkySpark's new v3 connector framework and Belimo's new Auth0 authentication. |
28 Apr 2020 | Induction Training 1.3 Rewrote course to cover more question types, and to focus more on Alpha Colony and less on Fantom Factory values. |
28 Apr 2020 | Induction Training 1.2 Reduced the number of achievements earned. |
27 Apr 2020 | Pillow 1.2.2 Something for your web app to get its teeth into! API updates. |
27 Apr 2020 | BedSheet 1.5.16 A framework and IoC container for web applications API updates. |
26 Apr 2020 | Butter 1.2.12 Helps ease HTTP requests through a stack of middleware API updates. |
16 Apr 2020 | Pegger 1.12 Parsing Expression Grammar (PEG) for when Regular Expressions just aren't enough! API updates. |
16 Apr 2020 | Google ReCAPTCHA 0.0.4 Client and Server code to process Google reCAPTCHA responses First public release. |
16 Apr 2020 | Markdown Parser 0.1.0 Parses Markdown text into Fandoc objects Re-wrote entire parser to use the awesome Pegger v1.1. |
13 Apr 2020 | Duvet 1.1.10 Something soft and comfortable to wrap your Javascript up in! API updates. |
13 Apr 2020 | HTML Parser 0.2.6 Because only Chuck Norris can parse HTML with regular expressions API updates. |
13 Apr 2020 | Bounce 1.1.12 A headless browser for testing web sites and BedSheet applications API updates. |
13 Apr 2020 | Sitemap v1.1.2 Creates XML sitemaps for BedSheet Applications Updated to use the latest BedSheet and Pillow. |
11 Apr 2020 | Axon Docs Ext 0.1.2 View Axon Documentation categorised for dot operator use Minor updates. |
10 Apr 2020 | Sitemap 1.1.0 Creates XML sitemaps for BedSheet Applications API updates. |
10 Apr 2020 | Slim 1.3.2 A concise and lightweight templating language for generating HTML Updated to use the awesome Pegger v1.1. |
06 Apr 2020 | Alpha Colony 1.2.0 Platform ready for Axon-Core release! |
06 Apr 2020 | Axon Core 1.0.0 Axon Core goes LIVE! |
02 Apr 2020 | Axon Core - Beta release Axon Core gets ready for public viewing! |
31 Mar 2020 | Induction Training 1.1 - US Locale Translated course into American English. |
25 Mar 2020 | Axon Core - US Locale Translated the whole course into American English. |
16 Mar 2020 | SkySpark Analyst - US Locale Released SkySpark Analyst with a whole new American English locale. Gotta keep the Americanz happy! |
06 Mar 2020 | Alpha Colony 1.1.4 Platform ready to preview new Axon-Core course. |
06 Mar 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Allow courses to be versioned. |
06 Mar 2020 | Alpha Colony 1.1.0 Axon Command Console - first revision. |
06 Mar 2020 | Axon Core - Questions With most of the content drafted out, now begins the difficult task of creating the Axon questions! Exercises, Checkpoints, Assessments, etc... |
21 Feb 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Course description / preview pages. |
19 Feb 2020 | Induction Training 1.0 Free mini course that introduces you to Fantom Factory and the Alpha Colony. |
12 Feb 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Added Google reCAPTCHA support to login and register pages. |
10 Feb 2020 | Alpha Colony 1.0.0 Initial launch of our new eLearning platform, completely written in Fantom and hosted ourselves. |
10 Feb 2020 | SkySpark Analyst 1.0.0 First public release of the whole new SkySpark Analyst. |
09 Feb 2020 | EfanXtra 2.0.2 A library for creating reusable Embedded Fantom (efan) components API updates. |
08 Feb 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction CSS theme support. |
02 Feb 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Implemented final course assessments. |
25 Jan 2020 | Form Bean 1.2.6 Renders Fantom objects as HTML forms complete with client and server side validation API updates. |
24 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Users may now earn eXperience Points (XP). |
24 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Created Achievements and plugged them into the event engine. |
23 Jan 2020 | Json 2.0.8 A JSON to Fantom object mapping library Support for dynamic typing via |
17 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Implemented Course checkpoints. |
13 Jan 2020 | Axonator Ext 1.0.6 Encrypts and obfuscates Axon source code Minor updates. |
12 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Framework for rendering and sending (via MailGun) transactional emails. |
12 Jan 2020 | Axon Core - Initial commit Initial commit of Axon Core notes for use in the new Alpha Colony platform. |
11 Jan 2020 | HTTP Client Ext 2.0.2 Axon functions for making HTTP requests to REST APIs API updates. |
10 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Implemented client side Vimeo Player with eventing. |
07 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Implemented Drap-drop question type. |
05 Jan 2020 | HTTP Client Ext 2.0.0 Axon functions for making HTTP requests to REST APIs Rewritten entire code base to use an all new internal HTTP Client library from Fantom Factory. |
03 Jan 2020 | Alpha Colony Construction Implemented Multiple-choice and Fill-in-the-blanks question types. |
02 Jan 2020 | EfanXtra 2.0.0 A library for creating reusable Embedded Fantom (efan) components Re-written to use efan 2.0. |
02 Jan 2020 | Pillow 1.2.0 Something for your web app to get its teeth into! API updates. |
02 Jan 2020 | efan 2.0.4 A library for rendering Embedded Fantom templates API updates. |
01 Jan 2020 | SkySpark Analyst - Initial copy Initial commit of material for the new Alpha Colony platform. Content imported over from the WordPress site. |
31 Dec 2019 | Alpha Colony 0.0.4 Functionly, you may login, and then start, view, and complete a course. |
01 Dec 2019 | Alpha Colony Construction Development begins on a whole new, Fantom based, application website for eLearning. |