Re: [Hampshire] Simple Database apps

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Author: Richard Bensley
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Simple Database apps
Heh, I just went through this tutorial, that was a doddle!
http://www.speqmath.com/tutorials/couchdb_tasklist/index.html


On 15 May 2013 21:41, Richard Bensley <richardbensley@???> wrote:

>
>> I am not a programmer, but I can fudge things when I try. Some simple C
>> or Python is not a problem, but I always hit a wall when it comes to UI.
>> Seems there is lots of code required to build and operate the interface. So
>> really, I want something like Python or PHP, and a really simple UI
>> construction like HTML/CSS.
>> --
>>
>
> In that case then what you want is a RESTful interface to a simple
> database.
>
> CouchDB is a tiny document database with an HTTP restful interface and
> simple management interface all done in a web browser on your local machine.
>
> Using any language or tool that can use simple HTTP GET/PUT commands, you
> can construct a dataset and read from it. Javascript, Python, Ruby, PHP,
> even curl can do this right now for you.
>
> With CouchDB and Javascript you can create a database with a simple
> interface all in HTML.
>
> Here is a little intro:
> http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/tour.html
>
> here is the RESTful api documentation:
> http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/
>
>
> OR LibreOffice base, which has it's own database format, you can also
> connect to various other databases including SQLite (using an ODBC driver).
>
> Rich
>

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