Rapid Application Development?

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, May 04, 2006, Walter Vaughan wrote:
>I watched this the other night, and kept thinking to myself, "good golly I 
>could do this in 15 seconds with filePro. My life is so stupid." "I've got 
>this incredible tool that just won't do what I need it to do." "Why can't 
>someone develop a middleware that would make filePro think it was storing 
>the data on a disk drive, yet store the data in a SQL database?" "Whine, 
>whine, wine".
>
>To kick off John's audio podcasts, here's a video that is *very* 
>entertaining and gives clarity to what the outside world is working and 
>thinking about. It makes it very clear why we have stories of companies 
>spending millions of dollars to replace filePro and having a hard time.
>
>http://oodt.jpl.nasa.gov/better-web-app.mov

I found this very interesting, well worth the 39 minutes it took
to download over our T1.  I would really like to know how he did
the Zope/Plone application from the data model.

Bill
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