Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-05 Thread David Karger
right now, it does persist to a json file as you want---it's just hidden inside the html document, as you can see if you look at the dido.html source. SMOP to make it load/save a _separate_ json file. On 3/4/2010 10:21 AM, kumarachi wrote: hi David, indeed! i saw this announcement just after

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-04 Thread kumarachi
hi David, indeed! i saw this announcement just after posting my question and thought that was awful weird as well... your editable exhibit looks great, and i will try something similar for now. Thank you all for the ideas about a DB backend, though i would prefer to keep it lightweight and

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-04 Thread Michael Andersen
What I do for some of my stuff (I'm tracking server incidents in our data center), is create my json file on the fly from a php script that goes against a monitoring database (SQL server)... I read all the data I need, naming the columns as I want them right in my SQL. Then in a loop, I

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-04 Thread John Callahan
Chrome is optimized for javascript processing. I believe it has a new javascript engine the other browsers don't (yet). Makes sense that Chrome would work well with any application heavy in javascript/json. IE seems to have the slowest javascript engine. - John On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:56

[Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-02 Thread mleden
Yet another option, particularly useful in our case since we have multiple data consumers aside from Exhibit, is to store the raw data in a relational database. In our case we store the data in MySQL but, in theory, it could be any relational (or other) database. The database acts as the system

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-02 Thread John Callahan
Similar to Mark's case, we store much of our data in relational databases such as MySQL, Oracle, etc This is nice because in addition to having multiple uses/consumers of the data, we also have multiple sources/providers of the data (mainly other staff in our group.) This allows each of us

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Re: Updating Exhibit data

2010-03-02 Thread Jonathan Bogacki
A while ago I actually wrote an Excel macro to turn a spreadsheet into a JSON file. This was because our implementation of Exhibit dealt with data that I really didn't feel comfortable sending off to Babel to translate - it was business sensitive stuff, lease dates, etc. Anyway, I put it aside,