On 7/10/07, Jeff Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nobody does desktop any more? Good luck Steve.
Jeff, please don't feed the troll. Stephen gotcha. I guess you didn't see his smile. This was an attempt at irony. Or satire. Or farse. With Stephen, it's so hard to tell. > Major corporations are concerned about > security and I don't mean people surfing the internet. That's interesting. Do you maintain there is actually a difference between a desktop app and a web-browser-based app in terms of security? > Follow Ed to a Python conference and see how "painful" it is. > Maybe there are no database frameworks because no one can do it! There are lots of _database_ frameworks. Take a look at SQLAlchemy. The Object-Relational-Management-Systems (ORMs) are taking over the universe. It's seems like everyone and their brother thinks they can make one. One in a hundred is actually on to something. As for _desktop_ frameworks, there are a lot of different toolkits available for the graphics (GTK+, Qt, wxWidgets, Tk), database interfaces (from ORMs to ODBC) and scripting languages to glue them all together. Thousands of desktop apps are out there right now. Ed and Paul and the dabo crew are trying to build a more integrated stack > Dabo is no trivial undertaking! Very true. And a awesome job they are doing. > I love you man and you are a champ in the kitchen, but why do you hang > around here anyway? I'll be interested in the answer to that one, too. For me, I enjoy the high-level discussion of development issues. I still recall a little bit about FoxPro to share here and there. And there's always MB to hassle. Despite belonging to another half-dozen LUG lists, Python lists, Ruby lists, and developer groups, this list still has some of the best [NF] discussions. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
