News

28.02.2003
The last few days there were no new updates on this site. This was because of being so near to a new version worth releasing as a public developer preview. Many things changed since the last release and the documents will be updated one after the other to reflect the changes.
Please have a look at the Dragon Lair Project also, since that project is the first real world implementation of the Dragon Breath Framework.

07.02.2003
A redesign of the data exchange table made us recode some stored procedures but generally allows us to represent structured data in a more general way. This helps definitely in having a dynamic and extendable interface.
We also decided to merge DragonBreath and DragonLair while development, since we did not find an easy way for virtually merge two databases within PostgreSQL. This means that we currently enhance DragonBreath within the DragonLair project and releases from DragonLair will contain DragonBreath either included or as a seperate package.

31.01.2003
With the development of the Dragon Lair project we currently implement many features for the Dragon Breath Framework. Today we especially coded many data sanity checks for automated data checking. This helps us to build new applications quickly, just like we planned Dragon Breath to be used for.
We will publish a new update to the first source release the same time we release the first version of Dragon Lair. Hopefully this is somewhen in February.

10.01.2003
Today we started on the implementation of the first real world application using the framework Dragon Breath. If you are interested in, you may have a look at over here

03.01.2003
The first implementation of the error handler was coded today. It's quite rudimentary now, but it works and will be used in the whole framework from now on.
We also made some definitions for status management and have now defined consts to work with. These consts will help getting data state and other informations as well as error identification.
And last but not least there is some first implementation of session handling done. It will be used further on as a basis of authentication within the whole engine.

27.12.2002
We changed the download page and added our first downloadable version of the dragon breath sourcecode. Yippie!

20.12.2002
Today we had the first complete running version. Loading, validation and saving are working now. There is still plenty of work to do: error handling, automation and much more...

18.12.2002
Things look good lately. We will upload the very first draft version of DragonBreath to our site real soon now. Perhaps that weekend.

13.12.2002
We were a bit slow on development the last few days. There was much to do besides DragonBreath. Anyway: The core system is up and running, but there are still some parts missing. Especially errorhandling and saving needs some more attention, but the generation and transformation of XML to HTML is up and running (and doing fine).
We put quite some work into the growth of the database structure. Much of the behaviour of DragonBreath is now handled in the database. While this took some time, we are sure things will pay off like that.

25.11.2002
Today I have learned of tamber.com. A project which has multiple similarities with our project. Unfortunately they work with ASP - a proprietary technology. (If you get a 404 error message following that link, it may be because your browser does not supply it's identification.)