Friday 2 August 2013

Blue... Phoenix?

G'day:
I saw mention of this on Twitter the other day and thought it was a typo. Then I saw Chris's blog post just now. Blue Dragon -  not OpenBD, but the New Atlanta product - still exists? And is in development?

What do you make of this ( .txt, and via FTP):

BlueDragon.NET 9.0 alpha (11/14/2012)
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.NET support
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BD.NET now supports .NET 4.0


Tags
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CFAJAXPROXY   - added support for this tag
CFAPPLICATION - added support for SECUREJSON and SECUREJSONPREFIX attributes
CFCOOKIE      - added support for HTTPONLY attribute
CFDIRECTORY   - added support for TYPE and LISTINFO attributes
CFDUMP        - added support for OUTPUT and ABORT attributes
CFFINALLY     - added support for this tag
CFFUNCTION    - added support for RETURNFORMAT, SECUREJSON and VERIFYCLIENT attributes
CFINTERFACE   - added support for this tag
CFLOOP        - added support for FILE, CHARACTERS and ARRAY attributes
CFSELECT      - added support for QUERYPOSITION attribute
CFZIP         - added support for ACTION ZIP/UNZIP and FILE attribute


Functions
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ArrayContains       - added support for this function
ArrayContainsNoCase - added support for this function
ArrayFind           - added support for this function
ArrayFindNoCase     - added support for this function
ArrayIsDefined      - added support for this function
DeserializeJSON     - added support for this function
IsInstanceOf        - added support for this function
IsJSON              - added support for this function
IsValid             - added support for types array, xml, struct and query
Location            - added support for this function
REMatch             - added support for this function
REMatchNoCase       - added support for this function
SerializeJSON       - added support for this function
Throw               - added support for this function
WriteDump           - added support for this function
WriteLog            - added support for this function


cfscript
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- added support for arrays in for...in loops
- added support lock and thread
- added support for exit, param and rethrow, throw operators
- added support for 'new' operator
- added support for include statement
- added support for 'finally'


Misc.
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- added support for Server.cfc
- added support for using new equality operators outside of cfscript

I don't have much to say about it other than bringing it to other people's attention. I'm really surprised BD.NET is still seeing development because - as far as I understood it - the project had kinda... well... died. I tried to contact New Atlanta a year or so ago to see what the story was, but I never got a reply.

Anyway, there you go, BD.NET seems to be getting ready to rise from the ashes. FWIW.

--
Adam