As I am hacking away at the Wer U At I have noticed that the Google Maps online API is much stronger than the Android version. As I have posted earlier the Android platform make Java much nicer. It is just that Java is still Java. So I need to compensate for the fact that Android does not support a true "point" on the map overlay. Even though this really just means I need to keep track of each image area over the map. Thus when a user clicks on an icon I can then pop up some information about the point.
In Python I could write it faster than I can write this blog entry. In Java well got to create a new file, look up API to figure out the best storage type, create some methods, get it to compile just so that I can add on click listeners to the icons I am overlaying on the map. And I really hope this actually works that I can use the onTap() method......
Monday, March 24, 2008
ZODB Object Databases
For many years I have been thinking it would be great if the Object Database was a reality. There have been a fair amount of implementations that I could image would work. The lessons of how not to use ORM's to map objects to relation databases seem to burn clear in my memory. So I have been scared to play around with anything that I thought might be close to an ORM. The just amazing power of a relation database with it portability, standardization and mind share have made it hard for me to be tempted by the Object Database side.
Then again on the charpy mailing list I just saw a post about ZODB. The apps that I am building right now I can see how relational databases can really get in the way of writing a web app. If the Z (Zope) was not in front of it I think I would have tried it much earlier. At this point however I would be crazy not to give it a try based how simple it can be to use it. Now that it can be stuck into Pylons as middware and from what I have read about how easy it is to do CRUD, I'm sold.
My first experiment will be to hook ZODB into my Wer U At web application. Already I have most of the data in a RDBMS so I can compare the two types of systems.
Then again on the charpy mailing list I just saw a post about ZODB. The apps that I am building right now I can see how relational databases can really get in the way of writing a web app. If the Z (Zope) was not in front of it I think I would have tried it much earlier. At this point however I would be crazy not to give it a try based how simple it can be to use it. Now that it can be stuck into Pylons as middware and from what I have read about how easy it is to do CRUD, I'm sold.
My first experiment will be to hook ZODB into my Wer U At web application. Already I have most of the data in a RDBMS so I can compare the two types of systems.
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