avibryant

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   by avibryant 19y ago

   Abstracting away the "relational" part of the RDBMS sounds like a great idea in theory, but I've yet to meet a good O/R mapping layer in practice. What I have met is several IT projects that have failed thanks to inordinate amounts of res
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   by avibryant 19y ago

   GemStone is an amazing piece of software - think transactional, distributed, transparently persistent dynamic language VM. For DabbleDB we rolled our own OODB because the GemStone licensing was too steep, but they're loosening that up and
3. 153.▲
   by avibryant 19y ago

   What else?
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   by avibryant 19y ago

   Vancouver has something like this, only more elaborate - http://abetterplacetowork.com/ . I can also say, from DabbleDB's experience, that: - 5-6 people can work quite well together in a boardroom type space, all sitting around a long t
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   Dabble Do: social to-do list Facebook app from the makers of Dabble DB(blog.dabbledb.com)

   11 points by avibryant 19y ago|3 comments
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   by avibryant 19y ago

   The Snipshot guys are from Victoria, BC.
7. 157.▲
   by avibryant 19y ago

   Count me in.
8. 158.▲
   by avibryant 19y ago

   It's up to you, obviously, but I found the pushiness extremely off-putting. You need to decide whether the core user activity is writing documents or inviting their friends. If it's writing documents, get rid of the invite clutter. If it
9. 159.▲
   by avibryant 19y ago

   Since you mention the words "smalltalk", "seaside", and "dabble" ;), drop me a note - avi@dabbledb.com.
10. 160.▲
    by avibryant 19y ago

    What particular problems are caused by the user being kept on one server?
11. 161.▲
    by avibryant 19y ago

    In my experience with Seaside (which uses roughly the same technique), extremely well. There's a demo site at http://scriptaculous.seasidehosting.st/, fwiw.
12. 162.▲
    by avibryant 20y ago

    Not really, but feel free to drop by Stamps Landing (where Dabble DB and Snipshot have our offices) for a beer some time... email me first to set something up.
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    by avibryant 20y ago

    Thanks! There's another neat screencast here with more recent features: http://dabbledb.com/explore/screencasts/maps-and-charts/