Well, its finally here! The first public release of Skweegee has been posted to the Riaforge project site. Version 0.4.0 has been in private beta for just over 2 weeks and I feel like its finally ready for public consumption.

Keep in mind that its still a little early on so there are some obvious functions missing but it is very usable. The biggest thing missing is the wiki, since I decided to pull it from this release, but will be added back in by the 0.5.0 release. Skweegee.com is running the 0.4.0 release currently and I have enabled the public read-only access so you can get a glimpse of it in read-only mode.

The Google group is opened up to the public now as well, so feel free to join the group and take part in the discussions or post any issues you may run into. I dont have alot of time right now to post too many details but I will try and get a much more detailed post up later this weekend.

For now, you can download the release from the Riaforge project page.

Thanks to all of the folks on the private beta who tested and submitted feedback!

In my last post I mentioned that I would be putting up a beta sign-up form for Skweegee. Well, that time has come. At long last! Im going to keep the number of testers in the private beta very limited, so dont wait! And please, if you dont have time to test and submit feedback and bugs, dont sign up. You will end up taking the spot of someone who has the time and willingness to help.

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Thats right, its NOT dead! I have been getting quite a few emails over the last several months prodding me to get something released. And thank God for them! I finally got off my ass and spent some time getting it ready to go. After one and a half years, 2 frameworks, 2 ORMS, and 3 re-writes, Im about ready to open the private beta! The SVN repo is closed right now but Im going to open it up after we complete the private beta.

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Luis posted the details on his site. Go get it! The new ColdBox Sidebar is included in this release, you HAVE to check that out for sure!

I had the need the other day for a simple horizontal bar graph. I didnt want to mess with a flash based solution so I found some CSS based graphs and decided to create a ColdBox plugin for them so I can use them again later on.

So I wanted to post them here for anyone that might be interested in using them. The CSS is not my work, it was borrowed from here. Lets take a look at what they look like and how easy they are to use shall we?

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