On Oct 23, 2009, at 6:08 AM, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
>
>
> 2009/10/22 Rick Morrison <[email protected]>
> I am a Java & .Net application programmer who has flirted with
> Smalltalk for a long time without doing the "deep dive" to really
> understand it. Pharo and Seaside are making me think that
> everything is coming together now for another try. That and some
> micro-ISV ambitions to give me a real reason to write some code
> outside of work.
>
>
> Welcome!!! I hope you enjoy this wonderful world ;)
>
> For my type of project I really need a db package and a gui
> package. That leads to the questions:
> 1. Right now, is SqeakDBX my best choice for a db interface? Sqlite
> is my db of choice for the project I have in mind.
>
> Of course!!! hahahahaha (I am one of the SqueakDBX authors). But
> it is a joke. There are several persitence alternatives. You can see
> this link:
> http://www.seaside.st/documentation/persistence
> There others nice solutions like Magma, CouchDB and TokyoTyrant,
> etc. The good thing is that you have several approaches. There must
> be one that fits better your needs.
> BTW, SqueakDBX works perfect with Sqlite3 in Linux, Mac and Windows.
> Which OS do you want to use? You can even create (I can help you if
> you want) a seaside one-click with the Sqlite3 and OpenDBX dlls. So,
> this type of app is very "portable": just unzip and double click :)
mariano
it would be nice if you could start to write something on it.
May be we could turn that into a chapter for the pharo v 2 book?
> For more details about SqueakDBX you can see http://www.squeakdbx.org/
>
> 2. For the UI, I've been reading about the choices and I'm having a
> hard time finding a currently supported project. Do I go with
> polymorph by default?
>
> For the UI, what about "self-hosting" a Seaside instance and doing
> the UI in the browser? Ie, the app starts a Seaside server and
> opens a browser window pointed at the apps main window (home page).
> Can that be done? Is it a good idea?
>
>
> Yes, I saw a lot of people doing this. They have a one click seaside
> image where you just do a double click and then open the browser
> with localhost
> And as I told you, you can have sqlite3 inside that zip.
> On there other hand, there is a very interesting project that let
> you build "heavy client apps" with Polymorph using a palette and
> drag and drop. You can see a video here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHbc1t83fEI
>
> I hope you can give me some direction. I like the direction of
> Pharo and Seaside is just plain cool. I want to do this to get my
> head outside the coding box I'm kind of stuck in. And have some fun.
>
>
> There are 2 new books if you want: one for seaside and one for pharo:
>
> - http://www.pharobyexample.org/
> - http://book.seaside.st/book
>
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> You are wolcome!
>
> Rick
>
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