Re: WebObjects development (Mark Wardle)

2014-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Schmitz
Thanks Aaron, I'm going to keep this email front and center during the Fluent conference. Been awhile since my LISP, but I do remember it being very slick. I'm just not sure how good it would be for large projects. My mind is definitely geared toward OO, and I don't recall there being st

Re: WebObjects development (Mark Wardle)

2014-03-08 Thread Aaron Rosenzweig
Once you realize javascript has more in common with LISP than Java you will like it more. Javascript *can* be programmed in a Java-like manner and the syntax shares many similarities when you treat it that way. That does not mean that you *should.” You’ll gain a deeper understanding when you r

Re: WebObjects development (Mark Wardle)

2014-03-08 Thread James Cicenia
Been doing iOS work at a "Big Health Tech Company". They use a big Hadoop database for storing everything and then use various ETL type systems to move, clean, organize, etc, back into a SQL database. Most of the iOS stuff talks with Rest to RubyOnRails, hence, my desire to maybe start learning

Re: WebObjects development (Mark Wardle)

2014-03-08 Thread Jesse Tayler
go ahead and store anything you want into Mongo DB and it dumps whatever rats nest of data you put in there without a care in the world. is that a good thing? you decide. my world is mobile, and the web counterparts need a rational routing, and presentation navigation standards to help the mos

Re: WebObjects development (Mark Wardle)

2014-03-08 Thread Joel M. Benisch
+1, whole heartedly. Universal medical records. Does anyone know of a better server side engine or tool set available to handle all the disparate types of data that the inevitable national health records data base will house? I don't. I'm in the Insurance Business. WO rocks for our purpose

Re: WebObjects development (Mark Wardle)

2014-03-08 Thread jazz
Hi Mark, When reading through your email I realised that this is quite nicely summarising my thoughts on this topic. I hear other people on the list talking about the past, but this is about the future. Since Apple now has a large installed base of iOS devices, it would be worth a try again to