April 2013 (3)

2013-04-24

mORMots know how to swim like fishes

Another great video by warleyalex. This time, a full FishFacts demo in AJAX, using mORMot and its SQLite3 ORM as server. See it on YouTube! Feedback is welcome on our forum. Update: I've just uploaded the corresponding source code to our repository. See sample 19 - AJAX ExtJS FishFacts. You need to  […]

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2013-04-22

TDataSet... now I'm confused

You perhaps know that I'm not a big fan of the TDataSet / RAD DB approach for end-user applications.
They are easy to define, almost no code to write, and you are able to publish a working solution very fast.

But it is a nightmare to debug and maintain. I prefer the new DataBinding feature, or... of course... ORM!
In mORMot, we have some auto-generated screens, and in our roadmap, we forcast to use some auto-binding features, using a KISS by-convention MVC pattern.

For some users, we made a ORM / TDataSet conversion unit.
And we discovered that TDataSet has a weird, and very misleading definition of its AsString property, for Unicode versions of Delphi.

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2013-04-02

Two videos about EXTjs client of mORMot server

Two nice videos, posted by a framework user. The first one presents a remote RESTful access of a SQLite3 database, hosted by a mORMot server: After one post in the forum, warleyalex was able to easily add remote filtering of the request: In addition to the previous video about security (by which the  […]

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