Last week, I finished the 2nd of the Sybase Unwired Server classes. If the product had a icon, I’d post it here. However, I get the feeling that the product team may not be as well organized as needed to tie up loose ends.
The first class was SUP Administration, the second was SUP Application Development. I now find myself deflated, just sitting here, thinking about what to do next. Here are a few hints about how things proceeded:
This thing changes rapidly. I’m talking major… Keeping up is going to be a big priority of yours… Totally nuts… They broke rule number 1 of programming. You design it before you build it…
and so on.
To top things off, SAP just bought a competing product as well. It is called Syclo.
My initial goal is to build a SUP mobile application called a Hybrid Web Container which can operate offline. The key word here is offline.
The HWC is an application that can be built using something close to a wizard to construct screens as well as dragging and dropping buttons and actions on screens to create workflows between many screens. Ideally, you can build an application without coding. This takes the development time down to something quite speedy. The “offline” part of the application would allow me to download a set of data from a server, onto an ultralite database located on the device, so that I could operate on the data while the device was unplugged from the network. Then, when the network connection is restored, the changed data get synchronized back to the server.
Unfortunately, you cannot do this with SUP. The wizard method does not support offline operation, because it does not support the presence of an ultralite database on the device.
So, I am now sitting here thinking…
Hi Mark,
I am a fellow BCC lover, and am designing and building a 35 ferro cement BCC for my daughters (and me). This will be my second ferro cement boat, my first being a 44′ Samson C’Quoia which I lived aboard for 4 years then sold in 1980. I have sufferred in the intewrvening years for my loss of connection to the water, so am looking forward to regaining that proximity. As a product designer I am more attached to my creature comforts so am designing a set of gizmos to build into the boat, my daughter has named “River”, in order to make it the modern experience in the traditional setting. Having said that I fully respect your preferences. I just love your boat and thanks for the images which I have in a folder on my desktop for frequent viewing, which is as near as I will be for several years to the real experience.
While you are comtemplating your database there have a think about how you would build a comprehensive medical diagnostic database. I have a pet design project that goes back some years, which I dubbed the “medical wand”. This brings together a full set of sensory devices in a hand held format to collect data to enable home diagnosis of common conditions, or to collect data for the rapidly expanding field of remote medical and health diagnosis.
Thanks for the description of your boating experience, it reminds me of my sailing youth and urges me forward to build River post haste. Living in Sydney here we have waterways a plenty to explore, but I have read so many stories about Chesapeake Bay and envy you your experiences, too.
Kind regards
BilB