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<p>YUMA BRINGS OBJECT-ORIENTED BASIC TO WEB DEVELOPMENT<br />
Users Enjoy Web Development Again</p>
<p>Inspiring Applications, Inc. today announced the release of Yuma, a<br />
development tool that enables BASIC programmers to write web software that<br />
runs on any major server platform. Yuma users can build dynamic web sites<br />
using a readable, object-oriented language similar to VB.NET and REALbasic.<br />
Yuma testers have found it to result in faster, more efficient web<br />
development than the alternatives they had been using, and find the<br />
resulting applications to run very fast too.</p>
<p>Yuma works in conjunction with Apache, a common web server, to provide high<br />
throughput. Inspiring Applications president Brad Weber explains, "Unlike<br />
most other web development solutions, Yuma pages are automatically compiled<br />
all the way to machine code, resulting in very fast performance even in<br />
computation-intensive applications." Benchmarks on a prime-number algorithm<br />
showed Yuma to be over six times faster than PHP, and nearly 23 times faster<br />
than JavaScript.</p>
<p>The Yuma language sports modern features that make development easier and<br />
less error-prone, such as strong type-checking, classes, class interfaces,<br />
modules, and more. It also includes built-in classes and methods for<br />
technologies commonly needed in web apps, including files, email, regular<br />
expressions, XML, and session handling. Finally, Yuma can connect to several<br />
major database engines: SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.</p>
<p>Inspiring Applications used an open beta program to get user input about<br />
Yuma over the last few months of development. User response was<br />
enthusiastic.</p>
<p>Yuma beta tester Jeff Ayling said, "Today I've been working with Yuma and<br />
have just finished coding a DB-driven central server to issue unique IDs and<br />
manage our users changing ip addresses. What would have taken a number of<br />
hours over a day or two in JSP (which I used to use) was finished in a<br />
couple of hours! ...And wow, it is lightning fast!"</p>
<p>Yuma user Brad Rhine commented, "I'm so freaking excited about Yuma that I<br />
can barely write about it. It's an HTML preprocessor like PHP, but with<br />
clean syntax. This is good because PHP is nasty. It's powerful and<br />
ubiquitous, but it looks like someone with a mouthful of punctuation sneezed<br />
all over my screen. Yuma appears to be powerful, flexible, and reasonably<br />
priced. Kudos to Inspiring Applications on this one."</p>
<p>Kim Kohen, a Yuma beta tester, remarked: "I've spent the past week<br />
re-writing several hundred lines of PHP code over to Yuma... It has been a<br />
delight working with a familiar language and I'm finding the PHP code is<br />
often reduced by half in Yuma."</p>
<p>Dave Wooldridge, an experienced PHP, Perl, and ASP user, had this to say:<br />
"Over the last couple months, I've been coding in Yuma and LOVE it! Now that<br />
I can leverage my many years of REALbasic experience with Yuma, I'm actually<br />
really enjoying web programming again!"</p>
<p>The Yuma Enterprise Server runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, and<br />
requires a web server (such as Apache) configured to support an<br />
external-module protocol called FastCGI. It costs $149 per server license.<br />
The Yuma Development Server also runs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It is<br />
free and includes a built-in web server in a double-clickable application on<br />
all three platforms. It is extremely easy to configure and includes many<br />
handy development and debugging features like HTML syntax validation. Both<br />
are available at <a href="http://www.YumaDev.com" title="www.YumaDev.com">www.YumaDev.com</a></p>
<p>About Inspiring Applications Inc:</p>
<p>Inspiring Applications, Inc. is a Colorado-based software engineering firm<br />
with offices in Broomfield and Fort Collins, founded in 2007 to build unique<br />
solutions for its customers and clients.</p>
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