After a concerted effort in recent weeks to get the documentation and remaining code fixes in place in Alpha to finalize a 1.0 release, I am happy to announce that it is now available for download from the framework's website:

http://www.alphaframework.org/

Alpha is my first foray into releasing software under an open source license. I hope to follow up with a number of further releases this year, adding more features and continuing to tune the code base to improve performance and security. I have been working on the Alpha Framework for some five years now part time, so for me it is very much a long term project.

Here are some interesting statistics about the development of Alpha:

• Total source code files: 170
• Total lines of code: 40,751
• Total lines of code, less comments: 20,879
• Distribution zip archive file size: 5.76 MB
• Unit tests: 190
• First SVN commit: 30th November 2006
• Number of SVN commits: 1,351

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Updated 2022 : note that the above post was originally published in 2011, but is left here for archival purposes.