Hi:

Have you heard about Seaside?  It's really POWERFUL framework to develop
Squeak web apps.

http://www.beta4.com/seaside.

HTH.

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Germán Arduino
http://gsa.swiki.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Nantais" <chad at whistler.com>
To: "The general-purpose Squeak developers list"
<squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Storage


> Hi Alan,
>
> I had developed a system for car dealership service departments that
> allowed for profiling of customers based on their repair activity,
> satisfaction level, etc.  The system was developed using Zope + MySQL.
> I want to create a sister application that is used by sales departments
> for lead management, customer profiling, etc.  This new system _should_
> allow for migration of data from the service tables.  It will have to
> allow for the ability to manage new types of customers in different
> states.  It also has to deal with the fact that a vehicle is both a
> deliverable (you can sell it) and a repairable (you can fix it).
>
> I have the luxury of time and very few implementation constraints so I
> would like to experiment with using Squeak to build this system which
> will have to manage thousands of vehicles, customers, leads, service
> invoices, and follow-up calls and the many relationships between them.
> The keyword here is "profiling".  That's where catalogs and queries
> come in.  I tried to do this with Zope, but I found unit testing
> awkward, if not impossible.  I also tried to develop a solution using
> the ZODB without Zope, but felt like I was just reinventing the wheel.
> So, I'm going to see if Squeak is a better fit for this problem.
>
> Chad
>
> On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 12:15 PM, Alan Kay wrote:
>
> > Hi Chad --
> >
> > My typical demo images contain several million objects and are a few
> > hundred MB large. I have heard of demo images and tests in the post
> > 500MB range. I haven't heard of any maxout stories, and there have
> > been a few attempts at doing a 64bit address space Squeak. I think at
> > least one of them worked. OTOH, there are more tradeoffs than just
> > with space. What are your specific requirements?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan
> >
> > -----
>
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