Note -- this was originally intended as an April Fools' Joke. Enjoy!
I have some very, very exciting news for the Qcodo community. As many of you know, the framework has been used on production systems and applications for over 4 years now. Originally written in VB for ASP and SQL Server, through these years we have seen it rewritten multiple times, and ported to Microsoft.NET, and then ported again to PHP and MySQL.
Qcodo saw its first public release just 5 months ago at the PHP User's Conference, and I have been very excited to see the response since then, with almost 300 registered users, over 5000 downloads, and many people talking about it in the blogosphere.
And the feedback to date has been very positive, with members reporting bugs, posting patches, and making great recommendations.
And for all this, I want to say... thank you!
In order to give back to the qcodo community that is continuing to grow around this exciting framework, I wanted to address what is probably one of the most common pieces of feedback/suggestion that we are always seeing: Qcodo support for Microsoft ASP.
I know that there are still many web applications that are being developed and supported that still use classic ASP, but I would have never imagined that there would be such a big demand for developers wanting to have the power of Qcodo back in ASP.
I want to reassure the ASP community that Qcodo will never forget where we came from, so I wanted to make this very exciting announcement: that we will be going back to “our roots” and we will be rewriting the entire core, and putting Qcodo back into ASP.
Unfortunately, this means that there will be a fork in the Qcodo tree, and likely a similar fork in the Qcodo community.
For QuasIdea, starting today, all the company's time and resources will be reprioritized to focus entirely on the new ASP development.
Unfortunately this means that we will not be able to support ongoing development, maintenance, or enhancements for the PHP version. But I feel that the Qcodo/PHP community has grown large enough outside of QuasIdea that it can continue to move forward on its own as its own, independent open source project.
We will be working out the logistics of this transition over the coming week, but we believe that this firm, complete split between Qcodo PHP and Qcodo ASP is necessary to avoid confusion.
And so as we move from the world of <? and back to the world of <%, we wanted to wish everyone good luck, and God bless.
;^)