It's a pretty exciting day here at Curl as we launch this all-new Developer Community site. For the past few months, a team of folks at Curl have worked with The Last Mile Group and Jive Software to create this new center designed specifically for developers interested in learning about how Curl can be used to build Richer Internet Applications. We have incorporated a lot of content into this community site to assist those of you who are new to Curl in getting up to speed as quickly as possible and to support experienced Curl developers by providing access to in-depth technical resources.
Our vision for this site is to promote an ongoing conversation among developers - like all communities, the more you contribute, the better the results. You'll be able to exchange ideas with others who are exploring how to take advantage of the web as a platform for delivering highly usable, responsive, and interactive line-of-business and mission critical applications within their organization or innovative new services and capabilities to customers and partners.
When you register as a community member, you'll have full access to all of the features and capabilities this community has been designed to provide including discussions with other community members and the Curl team, access to training and reference materials, code and application samples (including the Curl source code) you can use to demonstrate the capabilities of the Curl language and Run Time Environment (RTE) and put to use in your own projects. We plan to add more content on an ongoing basis ourselves but we believe that the best ideas will come from people like you who are working to develop real-world solutions to the opportunities and challenges facing your organization.
As you may have already seen, we've also announced a new Open Source initiative to put development kits for consuming web services, connecting to database resources, and tools to promote best practices in application development into the hands of the community to extend and enhance. Your contributions to this effort will make it possible for everyone using the Curl language and development tools to produce Richer Internet Applications.
To take full advantage of the Curl Developer Community, you should download and install the Curl RTE (available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X). With this runtime environment on your PC, you'll be able to take full advantage of the interactive features we've designed in this community site and can also run the Curl applications we've made available here for download to your local machine.
The next step is to download and install the Curl Integrated Development Environment for Windows or Linux which provides everything you need to build, test, and deploy your own Curl applications. The IDE includes a powerful development environment, a visual layout editor, and unique, interactive documentation that makes it possible for you to explore all of the capabilities of the Curl language in real-time as you explore the many features and capabilities available to you. Both downloads, as well as membership in this Developer Community are free.
We look forward to hearing from you – your suggestions, comments, and contributions to this Developer Community are essential to making this resource as valuable as it can be.