Development Platform for Collaborative Environments

Linux is an awesome development platform for building collaborative environments. It’s easy to get started building productive applications with JBoss, Ruby on Rails, and PHP, just to name a few. Linux gives developers enormous power by making it easy for them to build on the work of others. Linux serves as a stable platform for web servers, databases, and scripting languages. Probably the most famous development platform is the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP/Python/Perl). An alternative is the LAPP stack, which substitutes the open source PostgreSQL database for MySQL.

Just as Ruby on Rails accelerated Ruby development, a new system called Lumenation turbocharges LAMP/LAPP development and makes it easy to create complex AJAX applications in PHP.

Lumenation turns on LAMP and LAPP capabilities such as secure Software as a Service (SaaS) application modules at the flick of a few software switches in PHP. Or, with the push of a few software buttons you can create a graphical desktop in a browser with drag and drop icons.

Lumenation makes creating secure graphical web-based applications so easy that developers will soon forget that they ever had problems building high performance AJAX applications.

Many people that modify scripts don’t consider themselves developers. Lumenation brings the full power of AJAX, PHP, and Linux to these so-called non-technical people that don’t want to get bogged down in development. For developers, Lumenation brings instant role-based security and an instant GUI and menu system immediately accessible from PHP.

The Lumenation Environment is inherently a user role-based environment which allows for excellent control of menus, applications, content, user interfaces (virtual desktops), and data. No other environment provides this much control in so little time. SaaS options can be easily added and managed at a hosted location or onsite. This includes support for single enterprise (an organization with many locations) or multiple enterprise hosting with management on a single server.

A standardized GUI framework is included for all applications and allows each SaaS user to customize the GUI to their individual preferences. Lumenation provides “managed virtual AJAX desktops” -- known as Lumenation’s z-Windows engine -- which can feature Lumenation Interactive Components (IC’s). For example, a quick creation of a dialogue window is provided, but it adheres to the framework controls inherently. It’s a joy to program in this kind of environment.

Lumenation Environment points:
• Access to your current databases for read only or update through Lumenation simultaneously;
• Inherent record locking regardless of the database utilized;
• Extensive User Journaling for portal access, applications, and records accessed;
• Based on the Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP (LAPP) or LAMP stack

Further, the Lumenation SDK is extensive. It includes pull down driven Application Builder, robust DB Manager, Code Editor, and much more.
The Lumenation Environment by itself provides an excellent portal / intranet solution as well. It is a complete “out-of-the-box” solution for virtually any organization that needs to incorporate a user/user application managed, multi-tasking, browser-based access system for all their applications.
So, imagine this. As a developer starting a new project, most of the tedious programming chores are taken care of automatically. At the same time, you are provided with an extremely rich, user-customizable environment with requires extremely minimal effort on your part.

Check it out. It’s free for download here.