Check the tool out guys —> http://www.zerocode.com

Let me know your comments

It will be possible to wrap a commercial service like DabbleDB around SQL Server and offer this as a service.

User will not need any db skills.

Invite: email me.

Web services: yes, I think so.

Charts: eventually.

Avi

Now that I have that out of the way…

1. How will this integrate with web services. I have seen on other blogs that it will support (one day) the ATOM API for other clients wanting to read and write data to a DabbleDB app. But will a DabbleDB app be able to access other web services via ATOM/SOAP/REST, etc? I appreciate that such integration might be hard to make ’simple’ enough to stay within DabbleDB’s goals, but it would be great functionality to have.

2. Will there be some sort of charting capability added?

“You need to link the PROJECTS Master Page with this page. In the Parent Page to This Page Column Associations section, select PROJECT for the Link Column, select PROJECT_ID for the parent report column – column 1, select PROJECT_ID for the link to this report column – report column. Deselect the Use theme-specific edit button check box. The variable #PROJECT# should appear in the Link Text field. Click Apply Changes.”

If we ever add a feature to Dabble that needs documentation like that, somebody slap me.

DabbleDB has had a lot of press recently, especially in big blogs like Techcrunch. The folks over at DabbleDB have been kind enough to allow me into their private beta and I’ve spent the last week building apps and testing the technology……

http://www.orac...ress/index.html

Would be interesting to compare the two (even if Oracle is a behemoth).

Best of luck,
Bill
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Thanks for the kind words. We’ve certainly found that we get the best reactions with videos (and of course live demos). I think this may largely be because much of our effort has gone into making Dabble as direct-manipulation-based as possible, something which you really need to see in action.

* MonsterMan:

I’m never sure how to respond to comments like this. Obviously, at a high enough level of abstraction, Dabble DB is like Notes (or Access, or Excel, or..) in that its goal is to help people manage data, and to try to be as inclusive as possible about who can use it. The way we differentiate ourselves is in the execution — a cursory look would show that Dabble does things differently than all of these other tools, just as they do things differently from one another. So, it really comes down to the details, and how those details combine to enable the wide variety of possible users out there.

Whether Dabble ends up being revolutionary or evolutionary or neither remains to be seen — I would measure this by our ability to bring database power to people for whom it’s so far been inaccessible. All I can say for now is that, from the limited amount of feedback we’ve been able to gather so far, I’m hopeful that we have some useful to contribute here.

Thanks everyone for your comments.

We are indeed listening.. is there a particular codec you’d like? Also, have you tried mplayer by any chance? It might work for you.