Im not dead , im still alive and working in flex. Currently im working for a start-up called Sensidea on a cool revolutionary product. Im also in McMaster University doing software engineering, plus Gaiql is still around and being developed. One thing particular about gaiql that was changed is the entire codebase! . During the alpha a couple of developers tested the hell out of it and realized it needed major optimization (well it was an alpha after all) . Because of the feedback I got , i started looking into better optimization algorithms to do sorting (mainly the tamarin source code, and some books i got at mcmaster) . I will be releasing some news on gaiql soon. Plus Gaiql is going to implement some sql functionality to connect to your sql database , and i promise this will be the most secure way of doing this.