datalus / News: Recent posts

Alpha 3 *should* be the last release before I move Datalus into Beta.

Datalus is a Web 2.0 data management engine which can manage composite datatypes without anything but a descriptive markup of the object's fields. A simple case of that would be a blog post, a more complex one would be a inventory management system. primitives also have a natural axis: In other words... let's say we have a geographical blog with 4 major pieces of metadata (Location, Time, Subject and Body), each field knows how groups of itself are best represented.. so if we requested a list of our blog entries across the 'Location' axis we would be presented with a Google maps mash-up which shows markers of the locations of the various blog entries, while displaying across the Time axis would give us a calendar of events. ... read more

I released what amounts to a weekly progress update. This update is mainly me putting out fires while integrating code developed independently and slowly cleaning off my buglists, trying to get to clean up what's there, at which point I'll move into beta and creep ever closer to a release for public consumption. On my next update I plan on getting more specific on what Datalus does, but for now I will again refer you to the documentation. Cheers.

Datalus is designed to make making dynamic pages a little less repetitive and more object oriented, rather than form oriented. I recommend checking out the manual, as a news post will not cut it for an explanation.

It's to the point that most of the core design is complete and there are enough implementations of types, verifiers, encodings, etc. to allow someone to buid a functional site (albeit with a few bugs and rough edges currently), I work under Firefox and Safari and the CSS remains in flux, so other browsers are more than likely in verying degrees of mangled (as far as the default CSS).