So, after 6 month of hard work (but it was always fun), the OpenBD team released Version 1.0 of OpenBD. Actually, it should have been labeled as Version 10, instead of 1.0, but the team wanted to make it clear that this is a fresh start, a new beginning, a “Yes, we can” statement to the CFML community.
For all those who always wanted a free and open source solution for their CFML deployment, there isn’t really any excuse anymore to not just download OpenBD and take it for a drive. You will see, that your code will run with almost no modification. There are a couple of very neat features built in. The OpenBD Blog has already covered this in length, so I am just pointing out the really cool ones here:
Amazon Services in CFML code
Are you working with any Amazon Services (AWS) like S3 or SimpleDB? If not, you really should, because it was never so cheap and easy to store files and/or store records in the cloud. Now, within OpenBD (and because we are “Cloud freaks”) and we like to “eat our own dog food” we made it very easy to work with S3 and SimpleDB in CFML.
For example to store a file in S3 you issue 2 lines of code like;
imgFile = FileReadBinary(‘e:\\tmp\\22.jpg’);
FileWrite(‘s3://[accesskey]@[secret]/mybucket/22.jpg’, imgFile );
That’s it, nothing else. Really cool.
MemCache
If you are in the business of scalability you will love that OpenBD supports the popular MemCache module. Scaling out to many requests and setting this up is now no $9000 business anymore and right here, right now for you to use.
Admin Console
All right, true, this is not a feature per se. Some have even argued that a CFML server without an Admin console is not even worth looking at (guys you never worked with Linux, right and then probably only in Gnome…). So for all those people and also for those that like to work with config files and don’t need a GUI for it, you will be happy to see that Matt Woodward has put in a lot of work and energy to create a Admin Console for OpenBD (It comes bundled with the OpenBD download).
I have to say that I love it. It simple works, does what you expect from it and you won’t have to restart OpenBD anymore after any changes. Matt has many more ideas for the Admin console and I have to say that I am impressed and look so much forward to the future.
More about the new tags and the rest of OpenBD features can be found at the OpenBD Wiki.
But apart from all features you know what gets me more excited with the whole OpenBD Open Source project? The incredible support that you receive from the OpenBD team (no, not me and I am not talking about or praising myself), I mean the great (and FAST support) you will get on the OpenBD public talklist. You support a bug or request to the team and mostly within hours you will get a reply form the core developers or from any member of the team. If it is really a bug, the core team will mostly fix it within 24 hours.
If you have a project or a solution and you always wanted to open source it but could not do so because your main engine (CFML that is, what else?) whas not open sourced you have no excuse anymore then to download OpenBD now and start building that next cool web application. Just as we have done with our very own open source Digital Asset Management Razuna; all build with OpenBD!
