Our office takes any comments to heart. Good and Bad! I'm glad you brought it up and the conversation / sign-ups it's spawned. Hopefully we'll get others involved and we'll have that MySQL / PostgreSQL sooner rather then later!
If anyone else has any other thoughts please share them directly with us [EMAIL PROTECTED], here at CF-TALK or join our google group. http://groups.google.com/group/boomsocketalpha jonese On 10/19/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey jonese... > > I'm the one who started this and I want to make sure you know I wasn't > complaining. I was sad that I didn't get a chance to try out Boomsocket. It > sounds like it'll be awesome and I can't wait to give a run through. > > > andy > > -----Original Message----- > From: jonese [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 10:00 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Boomsocket Alpha Trial > > All, > First off I apologize for not letting everyone on the list know it was > confined to MS SQL right now. I deserve any tongue lashings i get for this > huge oversight. > > Yes we have plans to port to MySQL and PostgreSQL in the future, BUT we > don't have a hard time line for when this will happen. > > boomsocket is actually a heavily modified version of another CMS Digital > Positions used to have called i3SiteTools. We spent a few months stripping > out all the paid software, re-skinning the interface and adding new features > and other stuff for the open source initiative. boomsocket is based on CMS > code which began development over 7 years ago and was built for our > Microsoft based clients. > > I'm dying to get it ported to MySQL and PostgreSQL personally and i know > it's something others in the company want to do as well. > The two primary constraints keeping us from moving forward today are simply > time -- we are a production shop and have to deliver client billable work to > keep the lights on, and internal expertise in other data systems outside of > MS SQL. Based on the architecture of boomsocket and the existing MS SQL DB a > conversion shouldn't be a hard thing but it's not going to be something we > could do over night. > > Currently we only employ a handful of stored procedures and that's about it > for MSSQL specific code. Most everything else is simple tables, views, etc. > One of the reasons I include the .sql script is in hopes that a brilliant > and talented MySQL / PostgreSQL developer who knows MS SQL will look at that > and say. "geez this is so easy, I'll do it". Heck he/she doesn't even have > to be brilliant or very talented just dedicated to the cause. > > As for the suggestions to use some ORM that too would be awesome, but again > with a CMS which is based on 7 years of development it's a major change for > us to move to an ORM. I've looked personally but I'm only one man on the > team and tend to be the "go to guy" for DB ad back end stuff. So again i > have to ask for help from the community. > > We are primarily a windows shop (duh, it's pretty obvious at this point). We > know many of you aren't and we know we live in a bubble right now. We are > trying to change this for many reasons, with the open source initiative > being one of those driving forces. > > We believe that the problems boomsocket solves and the efficiencies gained > in using it to develop web properties make it worth your attention otherwise > we would not bother putting it out there. Please give it a closer look --- > get excited, give us more feedback and help us make it better, faster and > supported on more platforms. > > Eric Jones aka jonese > boomsocket Developer > > On 10/19/07, Andy Matthews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I gave this a shot last night and was disappointed to find out that > > it's SQL Server only right now. I was forced to stop about 3/4 through > > the install as I only have MySQL available to me. I respect their > > decision to stick with a robust RDBMS but I'm betting that not very > > many people have their own personal copies of SQL Server hanging > > around. I'd also bet that no one is going to want to install alpha > software on a production server. > > > > To Jonese (and other Boomsocket peeps), is there any timeframe for a > > MySQL version? > > > > ____________________________________ > > > > Andy Matthews > > Senior ColdFusion Developer > > > > Office: 877.707.5467 x747 > > Direct: 615.627.9747 > > Fax: 615.467.6249 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > www.dealerskins.com <http://www.dealerskins.com/> > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:291608 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
