Web Forums Source code available

[Bruce]

Hi All,

We're pleased to announce the release of the source code to our Web Forums software.
This is being released as an app & dict which you can take, extend, modify whatever. There is no royalty charge for distribution of the result. The source code itself costs $399 (less 21% if you use the BIG BIRTHDAY BASH comment in the comments field when ordering.

I wanted to get this out before the end of the special (which ends this Friday) because it has a number of dependencies, and so it's a good time for you to get those if you need them as well.

We've been using the forum software for a while now, for support on our other products, and this build represents the second major iteration of this product. Indeed this NetTalkCentral forum will be converting over to that software in the coming weeks.

The key improvement I wanted to make, and the reason for writing the forums in the first place, was to improve the speed of participating in forums - not just the speed of the site itself, but rather the work-flow speed, allowing a much faster way to browse topics, read replies and post comments etc.

The "splurb" page for the software is here http://www.capesoft.com/Source/Forums/forums.htm.
the documentation is here http://www.capesoft.com/docs/Forums/forums.htm and
the purchase link is here https://www.clarionshop.com/checkout.cfm?pid=1314&q=1&

Another key thing I was looking for was speed-of-deployment. We often want to set up forums internally, but we wanted a system which is trivial to deploy in no-time at all. Obviously being NetTalk based it's completely self-contained, so can easily run on any machine.

It currently uses TPS for the data-store, however it's been written with SQL in mind so the same code should run equally well against a SQL backend. We'll be deploying it against a SQL back end ourselves in the near future, and we'll document that process as well.

Apart from the value of the code as actual forums, it provides a good bit of example code as well, as a number of interesting techniques have been used to achieve some of the effects. I'll be doing a webinar on those features in the coming weeks.

Remember the special price ends this Friday, so this is an excellent opportunity to save some cash.

Cheers
Bruce