hmm, so where is the kbmMW 2.70 release

by Richard 11. June 2007

We have had a few enquiries about the where abouts of kbmMW 2.70 so I thought I would explain what has been occuring.

As you are all aware we recently announced a whole new business model for our products.  The aim of this was explained in detail in the announcements.  It is something we have been discussing for a very long time and put off over and over again.  We finally made the announcements and were overwhelmed by the support and goodwill shown to us by our users expressed in the newsgroups, by email and directly to us on MSN and Skype.

It was then down to business - deliver 2.70.  This involved:-

1. finalising the myc4d.com portal

2. organising the server resources

3. code completing 2.70

4. biting the bullet and finalising kbmProject to manage the huge number of build scripts we have due to supporting all the Delphi/Kylix and soon FPC build configurations.

We were doing well on all four targets until I hit a few time issues and bugs in the new kbmMWSpider for DotNet and managed to miss the May 1 target for the portal.  I'll blog seperately on how this was built but it's very cool.  2 and 4 were completed.

Now down to 3. Embarassed

In our wisdom we decided to add a wonderful new feature to kbmMW - AJAX support right out of the server.  Like any idea such as this it is a great idea until it isn't!  Suffice to say Kim ended up badly burnt by his bits and bytes but soon emerged with the goodies - it's looking good but the demo is not quite there yet.  Where we are at right now is trying to decide whether to make a 2.70 release and cut out the demo of the Ajax support and move that to a 2.71 or see if it can be sneaked into the release in the next day or two.  As Kim said "I would feel best releasing with the demo because then all the bits have been demonstrated to actually work rather than theoretically work" - enough said.

Suffice to say this delay is no fault of any of our customers so those that are on a 1 month SAU will be guaranteed access to the 2.70 release.

We will post a link to this very cool demo soon but to preview what we are doing here is the original version. What we will be showing very shortly is the same IM application running using all the same html, js, css, swf, graphics etc - in fact 100% the same content as the original but it will be communicating directly to and solely with a kbmMW server - it's impressive. For those that have worked with AJAX before you'll be interested to know this will also demonstrate how to use JSON directly out of Delphi Tongue out

 

Richard

 

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