SQLDBCrypt Is Now Live And Open Source.

Rajiv Popat — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:23:50 GMT

SQLDBCrypt; is an in-house encryption tool for SQL Server 2005 or later which makes it really easy for you to encrypt specific columns inside your SQL server databases.

Abhijit Ghosh (who gives me a sinister smile when you ask him about his blog URL or his web presence) conceived the idea of writing this in his free time a couple of years ago when were looking for a commercial encryption engine for SQL server in ITOPS.

Sticking to the eFORCE culture of giving someone with a genuine idea time; freedom and lots of resources we provided him what he wanted and got out of his way. Within a few weeks we had a fully functional prototype which we took to the next level by starting to use it inside of ITOPS and fully integrating Ad-hoc reporting and some of out other products with it.

After almost a year of testing and the product running successfully in production environments we have released SQLDBCrypt out live as a free open source product you can use in your projects.

You can read the complete release story here or take a look at the product home page on codeplex. We will also be announcing this on the Treasury sciences blogs page where we intend to talk about how this piece integrates seamlessly with out Ad-hoc reporting piece and the rest of ITOPS.

Whether you are in or outside of eFORCE; we would highly recommend you give this product a shot and do let us know your feedback.

Abhijit and I will be spending the next few days to chalk out a product roadmap and decide our next steps on packaging the product along with giving out added training material that makes it really easy to get up and running with this product.

This tool being brought to you from the Dot-Net-Labs initiative @ eFORCE.

Crux Open Sourced

Rajiv Popat — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:01:41 GMT

We've just open sourced Crux - a free light weight open source work-flow engine and a web application framework that I worked on.

We are fairly excited and so is the recently formed Crux Team.

Come, share our excitement here or visit us at CodePlex.