This app is worth checking out. It claims to be a no programing needed type of application builder, and judging by the video tutorials on their site it does look straight forward. It is pretty sophisticated so I wouldn’t say a complete beginer would get very far, but looks very promising.
It’s also a bit pricey…
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Yes, it’s based on CakePHP, with which I have also dabbled.
CakePHP is a pretty direct clone of the Ruby on Rails framework, and
is well suited for building extremely data-driven sites. It follows
the Model View Controller (MVC) programming paradigm, which means that
the parts that make the page look a certain way are concentrated in a
set of functions and templates which comprise the View, the business
logic that makes a certain part of the application work in a
particular way (like only permitting logged in visitor to see a
particular page) is in a set of functions called the Model, and the
traffic cop that enforces those rules and passes messages between
parts is called the Controller.
This abstraction means that it is conceivable that someone could write
a set of Actions to integrate CakePHP (or the product of ModelBuilder,
which is a complete Cake site) with Freeway. ModelBuilder has a means
of creating a template, and allows you to change the template on the
fly, but these templates are pretty abstract stuff, and the means to
make them (watched the screencast) are fairly user-hostile at the
moment. I imagine this will change down the road. The ideal thing of
course would be a way to make a ModelBuilder template within Freeway,
then have a post-publish hook to insert each page into the correct
part of the MB template bundle.
What this project really reminded me of was NeXT (later Apple)
WebObjects development tools, particularly a blend of Enterprise
Objects Modeler and WebObjects Builder. It has the same sort of drag-a-
connection modeling environment I remember fondly from those early
90’s tools and the same approach to data bindings and lazy coupling.
Very like Freeway is for design, you make what you want, and let the
details sort themselves out later.
Walter
On Jan 24, 2009, at 11:10 AM, chuckamuck wrote:
This app is worth checking out. It claims to be a no programing
needed type of application builder, and judging by the video
tutorials on their site it does look straight forward. It is pretty
sophisticated so I wouldn’t say a complete beginer would get very
far, but looks very promising.It’s also a bit pricey…
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Sorry, meant Modelbaker.
Walter
On Jan 24, 2009, at 12:08 PM, Walter Lee Davis wrote:
ModelBuilder
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