I thought I'd create a topic to more formally introduce CIYAM and explain what the project is all about.
Having worked as a software engineer for many years I became frustrated with the growing trend of "copy and paste" programming and wanted to create a platform that would enable the fast creation of web applications using a completely different technique (which I have termed "Software Manufacturing").
The system generates source code (there is literally *no* manual source code in an application that is created properly with a CIYAM system). I chose C++ as the source code to generate because my expertise is programming C++ (since the 90's) but the platform itself could actually be ported to another language (provided someone built a compatible application server in another language).
Initially the technology platform (prior to being open source) was used to create an application for a client in China and in fact that system has been running for years with no bug reports for at least the last 2 years.
That technology platform was then turned into the CIYAM open source project last year (
https://github.com/ciyam/ciyam) which was then used to create the CIYAM Open Project Management platform (
http://ciyam.org/open).
The CIYAM Open project (being the first application written using the open source CIYAM web application technology platform) has been designed to provide a new kind of work environment for exciting and (from a privacy and monetary perspective) important projects such as Moneychanger and Xenland's P2P Crypt.
We are interested in finding new developers (mentoring can be provided by myself in exchange for some work) and helping out other interesting projects.
