I wanted to introduce this little, unpretentious piece of software, which is intended as a small programmable database for hobbyists, like a mini Access but with a scripting language for those who like parentheses.
Your opinions are welcome.
Regards,
May I suggest that you have a "Get Started" button right on the home page itself with a very basic tutorial?
[1] compared to the days of filemaker
This could have been the error message instead of generic "Invalid name".
Name of the field. Must begin with an uppercase letter followed by further letters, digits or underscore characters. Non-ASCII letters like German umlauts are not allowed.
I find it just a shame that databases as a concept is something that has been relegated to be hidden deep in the backends and accessed only by specialized DB admins or through narrow and leaky APIs; SQL is considered arcane wizardry instead of being suitable for technical business users like afaik it was originally envisioned as.
For many contemporary use cases where one might have used FileMaker in the nineties, there’s SharePoint lists and PowerBI.
I'd always relied on ORMs in whatever web application I used to interact with DBs for the most part, but I've recently been learning more about views, triggers, and more complex relations. It's been insightful and I've found that much of what I want from a program like BeeBase is covered by knowing more SQL.
----
That being said, I'd love to see what you described too. I don't mean for this to be like the infamous "why do you need dropbox when you have rsync" comment. I just wanted to give an anecdotal alternative to use until someone creates what you described!
I suppose it depends on whether the scripting language can do what vba can, especially with regards to xslx files.
What a nice surprise!
How do you test? Could you automate it?
