Changed subject... MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Ed Leafe wrote: >> On Mar 7, 2009, at 8:56 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: >> >>> No...sorry. Where's your presentation? A PyCon or something like >>> that? >> Yep - http://us.pycon.org/2009/conference/schedule/event/58/ >> > > > Awesome! What your session says sounds like what I've been doing with > VFP9/MySQL for the past 4 years...creating a VFP9 rich/smart client app > that uses a web database. One of my clients is having me retool an app > from 2004 to use this approach. I wouldn't design apps any other way > anymore. While VFP backends can kick ass, MySQL is great for my apps > and it has the added benefit of running locally (workstation or LAN) > (like VFP) but also over the web. I've seen some ideas that suggest > that's becoming more possible for VFP but I like the true client/server > approach moreso. > > I'd love to retool FabMate in this fashion (as it still uses the VFP > backend) but that's just such an enormous project that I unfortunately > don't have to time to do right now. I'm scrambling to pick up any side > projects that will pay some bills! (Man, this debt stuff really sucks!) > > Of course the benefit of Dabo is that it would run on non-Windows > platforms too...and with the same code base, iirc. (Yeah, Steve...they > pay me to throw such statements out there!!!!) <gd&r>
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