Posts in category ‘Progress’.
Preparing to Beta 2...
What expected in the next beta version:
Now CppCMS is really ready for serving high load sides, thanks to new distributed cache module based on Boost.Asio.
Several CppCMS processes running on different computers can share same cache distributed over several TCP/IP cache servers.
- Staticly typed template system that fully integrated with the framework that allows:
- "Django style" template inheritance.
- Powerful extendsions abilities using C++ code directly.
- Static compilation with generated templates code or loading templates as external shared objects.
- Creates a potential for future "forms/widgets" integration.
- Various bugfixes and code cleanup.
Possibly included: form validation and generation modules.
to be Continued...
Asp.Mono in Linux? Not Yet...
During development of CppCMS I have always wanted to do some benchmarks against one of the most popular web development technologies: Asp.Net. I had found a blogging system: BlogEngine.Net that in its latest version had full support of mono under Linux, support of MySQL --- all I need to run benchmarks against CppCMS.
The beginning was promising. The instructions were simple, there was an actual blog running BE.Net under Apache mod_mono on Ubuntu. There were Linux specific instructions as well.
So, first of all I had installed mono 1.9.1 from Etch backports. The first problem I had to deal with was an installation problem --- the version of C# compiler and mono environment were different. This was solved quite simply. So, I could finally see BE.Net running under Mono using XML as data storage backend.
Then, I wanted to add MySQL storage backend. The problems had come very soon. The MySQL database script was written under assumption that table names are case insensitive. That was not true for MySQL under Linux. This problem was fixed.
more...First Beta Version of CppCMS is Out!
First beta version is avalibile under LGPL 2.1 from SourceForge.
It includes:
- CppCMS Framework
- Templates System
- DbiXX SQL Layer
- Examples of usage
Good Luck!
API Changes and mod-prefork
There have been lot of work in recent weeks in order to make deep internal changes in the framework. Now they include:
- Transparent support of 3 web server APIs: fastcgi, cgi and scgi.
- Support of new mod prefork that allows safer management of worker processes.
- Implementation of a cache that is shared between forked processes.
A new name for CppCMS Project?
Now it is clear for me that CppCMS is not quite successful name for this project. Manys think that it is rather Content Management System like Drupal written in C++, then A C++ Web Development like Django that allows you to write CMS.
So think is it worth to change the name of the project to something other? If so what name to choose?
Update: 2012-08-19
The name of the project will not be changed. It is already widely known and embedded into the software as namespace. So we'll stick with it.
