Bombaxtic Official Blog

Bombax at MacWorld 2010 Conference and Expo

2010-02-12T10:36:00.000-08:00

Bombaxtic are attending MacWorld 2010... no booth for Bombaxtic but we are out and about meeting with othere developers so tweet us if you want to meet up.

Bombax free testing now has no time limit.

2010-02-12T10:34:00.000-08:00

We are very close to finishing the new 1.1 release, however we decided to release 1.0.1 sooner rather than later with a major change to our licensing. We have removed the 15-day demo limitation from Bombax entirely. Instead, you are now free to use Bombax for BxApp development and testing indefinitely!

Free Bombax Library for iPhone and iPad - Coming Soon

2010-01-31T19:02:00.000-08:00

In the next week Bombaxtic will release a new, freely distributable library for iPads and iPhones that makes it very easy and efficient to communicate with a BxApp from your iPad or iPhone application. Our Bombaxtic framework will also be extended with new features to communicate with the client library. With this technology, we will make Bombax the premier server choice for networked iPad and iPhone applications. More coming soon...

Use Bombax for real and you could win a 64GB 3G iPad from Apple

2010-01-27T18:18:00.000-08:00

We're excited to bring you one last announcement in a day filled with exciting news from Bombaxtic and our friends at Apple.

We're giving away a new 64 GB 3G iPad to the winner of our Bombax application contest.

Enter your BxApp into the contest by March 15th, 2010, and you could be a Bombax winner!
BxApps will be judged based on technical excellence, originality, aesthetics, and creative use of the Bombaxtic framework. The winning applications will be announced March 22th, 2010.
More complete contest details, please visit Bombax iPad Contest

Whew! We don't usually send out so many announcements, but it's been a big day.
Thank you for following Bombax!

Bombax 1.0.0 Launched

2010-01-27T08:48:00.000-08:00

We've just launched Bombax 1.0.0 Throughout the beta, so many of you have chipped in your ideas and perspectives; it is clear that the community that is forming around Bombax will be comprised by many bright, creative minds. The open beta has really been helpful in improving Bombax and we want to thank everyone who has participated!

For those who have been wondering, the whole Bombax platform (server, framework, etc) is available for just $199. For an additional $100 you also get 12 months of support, upgrades, and an organic cotton Bombax T-shirt! Who could resist! Cick here to order Bombax.

In addition to launching our production version, we're very excited to announce that we've completely redesigned the Bombaxtic website. As we poured our efforts into making Bombax the best it could be, our previous website was utilitarian. We've taken a lot of time making our new site more useable.

Help make Bombax everything you want it to be...

2010-01-24T11:01:00.000-08:00

Want to influence the development of Bombax? Visit the Bombax Support Group today and share your ideas. We would love to hear from you.

Release 1.beta.3 of Bombax is here !!

2010-01-24T10:47:00.000-08:00

Hello and thank you to all of you who have been so helpful during this beta period! We've put a ton of hard work into this final beta release and are happy to announce a number of major new features for you to exploit. Assuming there are no 'show-stoppers', within a couple of days we will go live with the first production version of Bombax.
Let's take a look at what release 1.beta.3 of Bombax includes:

* Oracle support. As we mentioned in the 1.beta.2 release Oracle support was written but still in testing. We've expanded that code and completed the testing and are pleased to bring you the only Objective-C wrapper for accessing Oracle that we've ever seen. Trust us, it's _much_ easier than the raw OCI library! :)

* Automatic memory-management BxApp projects. To make it easier to write BxApps with GC support, we now include a BxApp (GC) project type that is automatically set up to use the correct framework and build with GC enabled.

* BxMailer and BxMailerAttachment classes for e-mailing. What every server needs and what is missing from the Cocoa framework, these classes make it really easy to send e-mails with different
headers and attachments by integrating with sendmail. SMTP support is coming soon.....

* BxApp static resource packaging. We've created a very easy but powerful system for including static resources like images and stylesheets with your BxApp. New BxApp projects include a folder named 'static' that automatically makes any of its contents accessible to your BxApp via the staticWebPath: method and
tag. These automatically munge the path to ensure its portable no matter what host or path your BxApp is located at. You can fully configure what the folder reference is named or what URL it uses (like 'media' instead of 'static'). The Bombax server takes advantage of this new system to serve up these static resources using the high performance server, but we've also added a new class, BxStaticFileHandler, to make it easier to serve static files as a pure BxHandler. This is a great packaging feature -- just drop your files in the folder, build, and share!

* Bombax server GUI redesign. This is a _complete_ redesign from head to toe and will make the experience of administering Bombax faster, easier, and more aesthetically pleasing. We looked at different use cases of Bombax and tried to make often-used features more accessible. Among the changes are a separation of monitoring and configuration tasks, a new outline view of your server instances, and
a usage graph.

With these changes we move into the final stages of release- readiness. Our focus over the next few days will be completing the documentation and fixing any bugs folks encounter. Of course, we have some *big* ideas planned for the future both for the framework and for some supporting technology.

Our mission is to make the best web framework possible and we're committed to seeing OS X as the premier server platform running Bombax. Thank you for supporting the development of Bombax and for getting the word out about this platform.

To 2010, the year of OS X servers and Bombax!

You can vist Bombaxtic and download Bombax here.

Bombax web store application will be open source...

2010-01-19T14:17:00.000-08:00

Bombaxtic are developing a working web store BxApp that will be included with Bombax both as an example application for developers and to provide some instant utility when running the Bombax server. This web store application will be open source, minimalistic but demonstrative, and open for extension.......

Coming Soon to Bombax beta.......

2010-01-19T14:10:00.000-08:00

Several Bombactix followers have been asking; What is coming next? So here is a taster of things to come. In our next beta release Bombaxtic will be adding:

• a new class for e-mailing from the server,

• advanced support for bundling static files with BxApps

• and a new GUI redesign.

This version of the beta should be released within the next week.........

What Bombax 1.beta.2 Means to Web Developers....

2010-01-19T14:03:00.000-08:00

These two classes, detailed in the framework API reference, should be a significant help to web developers who are trying to access an RDBMS either locally or remotely and who don't want to worry about writing in C or the complications of installing the client libraries.
Indeed, one of the nicest things is that you can count on any Bombax server now supporting the database access without any extra work from the administrator. Simply install the server and BxApp and you're ready
to connect!

Bombax 1.beta.2 Released for Download

2010-01-19T12:16:00.000-08:00

Great news! We have just released our latest beta, version 1.beta.2, and we are very excited about a major new feature introduced in theBombaxtic framework.
Through two new classes,

BxDatabaseConnection and
BxDatabaseStatement,

Bombax can now support Cocoa-friendly database access with a variety of methods and extensive prepared statement support. 1.beta.2 has been released with out-of-the-box support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite. Oracle support has also been written and we are completing testing and expect to have it ready for the next beta.

Please give the new beta a try Bombax version 1.beta.2

I will post more details about 1.beta.2 later today....

Latest Release of Bombax 1.beta.1

2010-01-13T13:08:00.000-08:00

Well here we are at launch plus 3 days and we have just issued a new release of the Bombax Beta - we have added new functionality and made several other improvements many at your suggestion.....please keep the ideas coming. As you can see we take them all seriously.

Bombax 1.beta.1 - 2010/01/13
•Added watchdog restarting to server for automatically restarting BxApps

•Added exit: method to BxApp class for on-close operation on exit or crash

•Added chapter on debugging to Developer's Guide

•Typo fixes to Developer's Guide and Framework Reference

•Improvement to update checking

•Server admin app help menu cleanup

•Installer automatically closes Xcode (still needs refinement) and opens the Developer's Guide

Adrian

Bombax - an advanced Mac OS X web development platform is set to revolutionize Apple's web market

2010-01-10T16:58:00.000-08:00

Its Sunday January the 10th 2010 and we have just gone live with the Beta version of Bombax which you can download for free simply by visiting http://www.bombaxtic.com/

Since our site http://www.bombaxtic.com/ went live last night we have already downloaded hundreds copies to eager Mac OS X developers..... and already we are receiving truly valuable feedback and praise for the system.

As we all know Mac web developers have long been frustrated by the lack of a comprehensive Mac OS X web application development platform. We at Bombaxtic believe that Bombax which is released in Beta today comprehensively solves that problem.
What is Bombax? Bombax is an advanced web application platform that has been developed specifically for the Mac OS X operating system and is the only web platform to take full advantage of Cocoa, Apple's highly regarded, Objective-C based programming framework for Mac OS X.

Bombax significantly improves web development productivity and is extremely efficient - In benchmark tests conducted by Bombaxtic we saw Bombax outperform other platforms such as Java EE, ASP.NET and LAMP.

Dominic Blais the web development guru behind Bombax puts it this way; “If you have developed an iPhone or OS X application, then you already have the skills and experience necessary to create Bombax web applications,”

Bombax also delivers advantages for administrators with a sophisticated, easy to use server administration application that makes it straightforward to install and configure web applications developed using Bombax.

So dont forget the no cost beta version of Bombax can be downloaded simply by going to:
Bombax Download