Posted by richard on 07/30/05 19:14

Scott Auge wrote:

> In article <slrndembnk.4ej.richard@localhost.localdomain>,
> richard <richard@localhost.localdomain> wrote:
>> zedcore.com will have the news when it comes...
>>
>> Hope some of this helps! Integration of template engines to a source of
>> data directly is so convienient..
>
>
> That is certainly a way to do it and peaks my interest...
>
> But the whole idea was to abstract away from the developer the need to
> know the database relations, field names, etc.
>
> I want them to know the objects to perform a certain piece of
> functionality. The people who maintain the database (a more advanced
> group of developers) will maintain these objects so the publicly
> available attributes and methods are the same or added to.
>
> If I hire someone, I can make them more productive faster by saying "If
> you want to create a sales order, use the object SalesOrder, "call this
> method/fill these attributes with" with these values and then call
> Create(). In short, it is easier to learn three lines of code than it
> is to craft an SQL statement with knowledge of the database (and it's
> denormalized quirks), etc.


Well yes, I think my suggestion helps you create a SalesOrder Object, or any
other object more quickly...

Getting people to like our code is going to take some effort I think. And
upon thinking that I feel that its going to take another 3 months than it
was going to anyway...

> I have been getting some ideas rolling around in my head and will make
> them public when they are better formed.
>

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