{"id":311,"date":"2008-06-25T04:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=311"},"modified":"2008-06-25T04:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T04:54:00","slug":"311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/?p=311","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something else that looks pretty cool. <a href=\"http:\/\/buckybase.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/introducing-buckybase.html\">BuckyBase<\/a> is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickblundell.org.uk\/projects\/wikidbase\/\">data-wiki<\/a> where pages are like free-form records (dictionaries of key \/ value pairs) that can also be can be shown grouped into tabular form.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s fairly simple at the moment (another just-launched GAE experiment), but I can&#8217;t help thinking that in my &#8220;enterprisey&#8221; day-job I work with nothing but data which is structured like this : records that are less than normalized, sometimes viewed as separate pages, sometimes squashed into grids. Give it the ability to add a few extra-constraints, some kind of blank form definitions; hook it up to <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/visualization\/\">Google Visualization<\/a> and let it embed Gadgets; add some more sophisticated querying &#8230; and you&#8217;ve got the heart of a small-business data-base application : <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/FileMaker\">Filemaker<\/a>-as-a-service.<\/p>\n<p>And if Google can ensure that Application Engine really is fast, powerful and secure  enough to host serious applications, then it looks very promising as the new standard  substrate for a whole ecology of this kind of wiki-derived tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something else that looks pretty cool. BuckyBase is a data-wiki where pages are like free-form records (dictionaries of key \/ value pairs) that can also be can be shown grouped into tabular form. It&#8217;s fairly simple at the moment (another just-launched GAE experiment), but I can&#8217;t help thinking that in my &#8220;enterprisey&#8221; day-job I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[97,109,169,457,502],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-databases","tag-developing-in-wiki","tag-gae","tag-tiddlyweb","tag-wiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sdi.thoughtstorms.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}