I've been a Microsoft developer for decades now. I weaned myself on various flavors of home computer Microsoft Basic , and I got my first paid programming gigs in Microsoft FoxPro, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft Visual Basic. I have seen the future of programming, my friends, and it is terrible CRUD apps running on Wintel boxes!
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…programmer because I had Hypercard. Shortly after that it was Filemaker and Microsoft Access. These tools let me connect with data and display it in different ways without convincing a programmer to work with me. It was plenty to learn the fundamentals.
I haven't seen a UI course that starts with a tool like Filemaker. And Hypercard doesn't even exist anymore.
If I was designing an introductory interface design course, I think I would start with this kind of tool. Something …
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I'm doing some work with somebody who wants to kind of rebuild it an all Microsoft Access system that they have that has kind of accumulated over 10 years.
If I were naïve about this, I would market myself to them as a coder, and say: "I'm going to rewrite your code to be Web based instead of using Microsoft Access." Instead, my positioning is "I'm a business consultant, we're going to look at what you have currently and see where we can optimize and …
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…by Colin Casey . In his own words - "I had to do a lot of work with MS Access databases at my previous job and I found that the options for interacting with these databases programatically on the Windows platform left a lot to be desired. JRuby was beginning to make Ruby development on Windows a lot less painful so, using that interpreter and a pure JDBC driver, I created a Sequel adapter for working with MS Access files."
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…teach the how and why of dynamic development by building out a full-featured blogging system using Microsoft Access and ColdFusion. Learn how to connect to the ColdFusion server through RDS, build out record sets using the bindings panel, and create a full admin interface for the blog—all in one hour. All of this will be accomplished using Dreamweaver 8's built-in database functionality and tools you already have at your disposal.
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…found it. Even more so after coming from PHP, Perl, C, and (shudder) some MS Access coding. Right around when I was finishing college I started attending ORUG meetings and some hackfests. This is where I met Gregg Pollack. We got along great, especially with coding.
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…the cloud and really started to realize the full vision, similar to PowerBuilder or Microsoft Access for the cloud.
Sean: Tell us a little bit about the open source project and the choice to develop using community involvement.
Chris: I should say first that my last company, Persistence Software, was a proprietary company, and we took that public and then sold it, so I kind of know the drill on the proprietary side. When I came to the open source world, I found that everything I …
…is a different paradigm from traditional databases like MySQL, Oracle, MS Access, MS SQL Server, etc. Non-relational databases are interesting to me as I think they might be applicable to some of our client projects. My notes:
No joins
Uses map reduce instead
When considering scaling out - think about "CAP" - you can pick any two of the following but you can never achieve 100% of all three:
C onsistency: ensuring that data on multiple database servers are consistent …
…MySQL table created ready with permissions, etc. that will end up holding the data from the combined . mdb files.
Step 1: Extracting the Schema
One important thing to note about my situation is that all the . mdb files have the same schema. Knowing this, I was able to simply find a random . mdb file and base my MySQL schema on this.
I have my . mdb files stored in a shared directory and so within my Rake task I used the following code to grab the first one (I'm sure there is a …