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I get the feeling that dabble DB never truly solved the "excel being used as database" problem and that is why they didn't last. I still think spreadsheets wor

by mburney 16y ago

I get the feeling that dabble DB never truly solved the "excel being used as database" problem and that is why they didn't last. I still think spreadsheets work really well for storing data (if you don't have time/money to imnplement a RDMS), plus now with google docs and dropbox there are enough ways to sync the data with other users.

petethomas 16y ago
EditGrid is still around and free and unlike Google Spreadsheet's broken importXML function (see: http://goo.gl/fWYDi http://goo.gl/fWYDi) it has a web_xpath function that mostly works. Also worth noting DabbleDB is one of the (few?) relatively well-known projects implemented in Squeak/Seaside as discussed here: http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&title=DabbleDB+Acquired+by+Twitter&entry=3453629693 http://www.jarober.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&t...
- s-phi-nl 16y ago
  I am very glad they got Seaside out before the sale: it has really helped to revitalize Smalltalk.
  - hboon 16y ago
    Seaside was pre-DabbleDB as far as I can tell from following the framework when it was in it's youth.
krakensden 16y ago
Uh... didn't DabbleDB also get acquired for their developers and put into maintenance mode?
- mburney 16y ago
  Sure, but what about the app itself?