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Forms-design application builder tool?



Rich Braun wrote:
> So I want a reasonably straighforward way of generating a form based on my
> schema, and can't seem to find anything useful.  
> 
> One of the most sophisticated ones out there, believe it or not, is the Base
> tool in OpenOffice--but it's modeled after a 1993-vintage version of MS Access
> (no thanks!).

Have you looked at Kexi (http://www.kexi-project.org/)? It's described
as "Microsoft Access for Linux." It was recently covered in Linux Journal.


> If you were building a database-driven website design today (one that looks
> like, say, imdb.com, with the goal of providing browsable/updateable views of,
> say, DNS records), what framework would you start with?

That's a rather different question. Catalyst, Mojolicious
(http://mojolicious.org/), PSGI/Plack (http://plackperl.org/), or
whatever is the latest flavor...

 -Tom

-- 
Tom Metro
Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA
"Enterprise solutions through open source."
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