In quite a departure for us at Components4Developers we have decided to start blogging.  Day to day we constantly talk amongst ourselves about new ideas, techniques and ways to improve our products.  Some of these ideas get into the released code line, some get put into our research basket for a revisit and some get rejected.  Our customers though don’t see this process occurring, well that’s not quite true.  Customers that engage us in consultancy services get to see this first hand as often we are solving big issues for them through elegant additions to our products.

For example, the first internal implementation of the messaging in kbmMW was UDP based.  Why UDP?  - Because a customer commissioned us to extend the middleware to support publish/subscribe distribution of real-time video.

Another customer needed connectivity for PHP, C, C# etc from which came the Spider clients collection.

It is worth mentioning then that if you really need a feature added to any of our products you could always commission us to develop that for you on a shared IP basis.  If we think the feature will be of general benefit to our products then we will include it in the production source and maintain it through its life.  It never hurts to ask

Getting back to the blogs.  Here from time to time we will share with you some of the ideas we have in the works, or things we have noticed across the industry.  Or, we may just have a joke or a moan.

Everyone is invited to join in. We invite our C4D friends who wish to join our bloggers list to let us know and we'll setup an account for you. Those that would simply like to comment on, or syndicate our missives please go ahead.

On another note.  Theses blogs are powered by BlogEngine.net.  Check it out.  It is Open Source and based on ASP.net.  Maybe I'll find a reason to hook it up to a kbmMW application server sometime.

Richard and Kim