Change of Plans, Prefix Shelved.
Sunday, 20 November 2011
I've decided to suspend development of Prefix for the time being.
As you may have noticed I haven't posted anything here for a while - primarily because development of Prefix has been suspended. There's a couple of reasons for this, but the main two are:
- We've decided to cease operations at the company where I work my day job. Commencing 2012 I'll be officially out of work and looking for something new to do.
- Given that I can't figure out how to commercialize Prefix, it needs to be put on the back-burner to make room for something that will pay the bills.
I'd like to return to Prefix at some stage but for the moment at least it's shelved. Besides Prefix I also have several other unpublished projects which have also been suspended - the slate needs to be cleared.
Having said all that, this seems to be the perfect opportunity to look for something completely different to work on. So over the coming month(s) I think I'll try my hand at various random things to see what piques my interest. Perhaps something in the mobile space, maybe some game development, perhaps something else. Who knows?
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Wow! that's bad news. Just want to says Thanks for PetaPoco and all the other software. I use PetaPoco everyday and highly recommend it.
Surely bright things will happen in the future.
Happy Christmas!
Best of luck! As you don't mention PetaPoco, will it continue to be actively developed or will that responsibility now be on the community?
Brad, good luck on your new projects.
After trying out various micro O/RM's, I must say that the one you have created just hits it. PetaPoco is the most pleasant to work with. Hopefully you will regain your interest in that wonderful piece of software :-).
Brad, maybe you should consider making some money out of PetaPoco. I can remember when ExtJS was just an open source project that started being two-way licensed. The main thing about it was its support for payment.
Since there are probably many happy PetaPoco users, some functionalities are probably still missing or could be improved, you could also start PetaPoco support with ie. 48h response time. Companies using the product on crucial products will likely be willing to pay for this. The other thing is that this kind of thing highers product credibility for being more business oriented than just a simple toy library used by many.
And maybe extend it even further which would make PetaPoco a sellable product with many components. The free DAL/Mapper library + other support tools + incident based support. I'm sure you can envision some addition tools that would aid PetaPoco's development.
Even more so with Prefix which would be a super powerful free compiler but against payment debugging tool. Just scratching my head on this one. Prefix seems a very nice and clean language so has the possibility of enterprise deployment...
Best regards...
I agree with Robert,
I would be happy to pay 200 usd per year for basic PetaPoco support and licences. If this money could further improve my favourite micro orm then that would be really great.
Brad,
I think it might be interresting to welcome PayPal donations for PetaPoco.
Best Regards
Sorry to hear it brad! I have to say PetaPoco is the best piece of software I have come across recently and it has made a huge difference to our software development and is now and integral part of our .net stack. I hope you find some work soon! If you want to move to California I could give you a job :)
The only reason I visit this site (continuously) is to see if there are any PetaPoco updates. While I am sure the other projects are interesting, PetaPoco is really the one with commercial potential. Honestly I think if you would have actively developed that rather than getting side-tracked on the other random projects with less potetential and demand, and charged for licensing and support...you would probably be in decent financial shape. There is plenty of demand for PetaPoco as you can see from the other comments. No one is really even mentioning anything about Prefix (or other projects.) Good luck though on whatever you decide to do, but like a lot of other people that check in on PetaPoco, I can't really use it because it isn't being actively developed. Without that, it will just collapse as .net evolves.
Regards,
Anthony
Hi,
do you have any plans to opensource it? I'm currently developing an opensource tool to generate client-side templates from server-side Razor views (alternative to JQuery.Templates and others, pros would be full intellisense, syntax highlight, and refactoring support) and I'm looking for some good opensource c# to javascript compiler, and I find Prefix very promising for my tool.
Thanks in advance, Vasili