Guys/Gals, even though Ben Forta will be coming April 30th, I have decided to go ahead with our regularly planned monthly meeting next Tuesday. We are going to try something a little different this time, as Steve Bryant ( http://www.bryantwebconsulting.com ) will be joining us over the internet via an Adobe Connect session to give us a presentation on a free open source tool named DataMgr.
From the DataMgr documentation:
DataMgr is a database abstraction tool to simplify common interactions with the database. This encompasses three major types of functionality: - CRUD: Database reads/writes including those of the type performed by cfinsert/cfupdate - ActiveSchema: The ability for your code to define your database structure. DataMgr can introspect the database structure or it can define it. - Prototyping: The ability to use simulated data for prototyping (much like QuerySim, but more powerful and less work). Additionally, DataMgr provides some advanced functionality that allows you to define special behaviors and relation fields that can dramatically assist development. Taken together, these features can effectively create interactions with the database that fit the way we develop web applications. DataMgr could be viewed as a competitor to an ORM approach – though it doesn't require the same types of interactions. While ORM solutions effectively change the perspective of development from database to object, DataMgr maintains the database perspective, but makes common database interaction code more concise and powerful. DataMgr currently supports the following databases (others are generally easy to add): - MS Access - MS SQL Server - MySQL - PostGreSQL ________________________________ Count on joining us next Tuesday night April 10! Also, just another reminder that Ben Forta will be visiting the DFWCFUG on April 30th on the Scorpio pre-release tour. Make sure that you have that on your calendars!!! -- ~Dave Shuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.daveshuck.com Where's your Spot? www.instantspot.com
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