The Ext GWT team has been hard at work on our Ext GWT 3.0 release. We are happy to announce the availability of our first developer preview release. 3.0 is a major upgrade from 2.0 with a massive amount of…

We're starting to gear things up for the biggest Sencha event of the year: SenchaCon 2011! We're confident that Austin in October 2011 will see the largest ever gathering of our community in one place, and will be a unique…

Here at Sencha, we're constantly aware of how much you depend on our frameworks, tools, services and forums -- to learn new skills, to develop amazing apps, and even just to hang out with our amazing community. But we also…

XTemplates are are a powerful feature in Ext GWT. Prior to 3.0, XTemplates have been implemented using the same design and code as Ext JS. For 3.0, we decided we would like to replace the Ext JS JavaScript-based implementation with…

Well-known designer and developer Joe McCann recently spent a few days using Sencha Touch. We asked him to talk through his experiences of building his first application for the tablet form factor using the framework, and to let us know…

I am extremely excited to announce our second contest for Sencha Touch, a theming competition geared toward designers. We have some fantastic, designery prizes lined up, including a [MacBook Air](http://www.apple.com/macbookair/), a [BlackBerry PlayBook](http://us.blackberry.com/playbook-tablet/), and three [iPad 2s](http://www.apple.com/ipad/). The contest is…

We've spent a lot of time the last few months evaluating the growing tablet market, starting with our reviews of the Galaxy Tab, the Motorola Xoom and the iPad 2. This week we found ourselves with RIM’s entry in to…

One of the features we haven't discussed much in Ext JS 4 is the new Ext.Brew package. Unique among JavaScript frameworks, the Ext.Brew package uses unique Sencha technology to brew the perfect cup of tea. Using the power of the…

Although most modern mobile devices have good hardware specs, almost all of them are still lacking in areas like memory — especially compared to their desktop counterparts. Others either have week graphics processing units (GPUs), or the browser doesn’t properly…