Hi, this is a beta so I thought I should contribute how I have got on with it so far :)
A bit of background: I'm a freelance developer producing 2-5 small sites per year which are usually hosted on shared space, I have been using CF since version 3 and would consider myself reasonably accomplished but no guru. I also sometimes do contract work for larger companies - the last was three months working for the International Baccalaureate Organization on an internal system using Oracle and MX. My testing set up is a linux box running the CF webserver and MySQL. I don't want the following to sound negative, I honestly like the look of what I have seen so far and would love to evaluate Plum further, I really think it could help me a lot. Now on to Plum. Installation went fine with no errors, the licence code doesn't seem to remove the ads but I presume that hasn't been implemented yet. I couldn't run the tutorials as I don't have SQL server, I know there are cheap options but to be honest I'm not going to buy it just to test something. More to the point in an organisation that doesn't use it (such as the IBO) that’s as far as evaluating the software would go, there is no chance they would buy or install anything on their servers to run a tutorial. Will the production version offer tutorials that work with other databases? I tried setting up a new project instead, going through the wizard the fist thing I noticed is the limited number of databases plum can connect to. As I mentioned, I use MySQL on Linux which isn't supported so I fired up CF Server on my development box and created an access DB instead. The rest of the wizard seemed OK but I did wonder how all the usage of CF Administrator would tie in with using shared hosting. If it's just a case of transferring the finished code to the production server then no problem, but if mappings etc. need to be created then I would be out of luck as most hosts wouldn't allow it (there is also the question of many hosts restricting tag usage, it would be nice if certain tags could be "turned off" in plum to reflect this limitation many of us have to work with). On completing the wizard Plum opened a webpage asking me to complete the site setup, on submitting this page Plum crashed (no error messages I can post sorry) and the webpage reported problems with users not being defined and roles not being set. I could go to the site and browse around it but couldn't login to the admin section. I don't know of course if I made mistakes in this part as I couldn't run the tutorials and I was "flying blind" a bit :) So that’s as far as I have got, I hope this may be of some use in the ongoing development of Plum although I suspect that I may not really be representative of a typical user which is why I had problems. I may even try to find a demo version of SQL server and have another go at it; I feel a bit like a kid before Christmas at the moment, I know I want to open and play with the present under the tree, but I'm not allowed ;) --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.804 / Virus Database: 546 - Release Date: 30/11/2004 ********************************************************************** You can subscribe to and unsubscribe from lists, and you can change your subscriptions between normal and digest modes here: http://www.productivityenhancement.com/support/DiscussionListsForm.cfm **********************************************************************
