After many (too many?) months of work and a very successful beta program aggiorno 1.0 has finally released. With aggiorno, web developers easily make their ASP.NET and HTML sites compliant with the latest web standards, using the latest technology trends suggested by industry experts. Beyond these features that are the focus of version 1 (cleaning up the web!), aggiorno is a platform to deliver encapsulated executable knowledge right in the hands of the web developer immediately providing increased productivity and business value.
Congratulations to the aggiorno team for all the hard work!
Version 1 is a demonstration that with hard work and support from the community not only a great product can be built but it is also possible to coin a new concept in the software development world: aggiorning. aggiornings are a bit like refactorings but their goal is to make transformations that add value to the business. aggiornings are wisdom capsules that traverse your code and makes it faster, better, more standard...you name it! and aggiorno supports the creation, execution and delivery of new aggiornings. Let me give you ashort example, just like Roger Johansson shows one of the most common validation mistakes in a site is the lack of alternate description for images. In my opinion the reason why this happens is due to the fact that looking for each of the images in a site and adding the right description is a very time consuming task. However aggiorno has an aggiorning devoted exactly to this task, I am sure you will find it most useful.
aggiorno works as a stand alone tool that comes complete with an XHTML editor, and it can also be integrated as an add-in to Visual Studio 2005/2008.
The focus of version 1 is about cleaning up the web. Soon after we started conceptualizing aggiorno we realized that too many web pages were not valid or bluntly syntactically incorrect. With some research it was clear that helping web developers make their pages standard compliant was the best first step in realizing the vision of aggiorno of becoming a true knowledge manipulation platform. More sophisticated aggiornings require pages that are clean, so let's begin the cleaning of the web! and you'll be discovering the full power of aggiorno when we'll deliver more capsules through our subscription model.
Your feedback is very important. If you have suggestions for new aggiornings or would like to tweak the existing ones please let us know. For now, go try aggiorno and immediately increase your productivity!