Comment Re:Lasso will slowly fade away (Score 2, Insightful) 15
I am one of those Lasso developers, pretty new to the game, that looked at PHP. Not coming from a programming background (yeah, there's lots of us), it was immediately obvious that PHP was way over my head (or I wasn't ready for the challenge, however you want to spin it).
It was too hairy a ball to get a grip on. With Lasso I can get a grasp of the concepts, DL some code snippets from some of the "better" developers that I have come to know from the beta cycle, and usually get something working in fairly short order. I have found the Lasso Talk list is very user-friendly and supportive, as well, but there's no lack of hard-core coders there.
But we are NOT looking at this solely as a FileMaker-enabling technology, something that Lasso primarily has been in the past. To do that would be to seriously under-rate Lasso's power. Lasso is on our OS X box, hooking into MySQL databases, and is pretty fast. The security is good, having the ability to protect tables, columns, or individual fields with as much flexibility as you could think of.
This whole path has allowed me to ease into Unix more or less gracefully, which has allowed me to continue in my chosen career path, doing projects that are interesting and profitable. Four months ago I knew nothing about Unix, had only a modicum of knowledge about Lasso 3, a solid background in DNS, e-mail servers, listservs, and WebStar. Now I have five database-enabled sites up and running. If you're interested, here is one to look at:
http://db.climbingcentral.com/f_forums.lasso
Hope this helps somebody out who might be making a decision.
It was too hairy a ball to get a grip on. With Lasso I can get a grasp of the concepts, DL some code snippets from some of the "better" developers that I have come to know from the beta cycle, and usually get something working in fairly short order. I have found the Lasso Talk list is very user-friendly and supportive, as well, but there's no lack of hard-core coders there.
But we are NOT looking at this solely as a FileMaker-enabling technology, something that Lasso primarily has been in the past. To do that would be to seriously under-rate Lasso's power. Lasso is on our OS X box, hooking into MySQL databases, and is pretty fast. The security is good, having the ability to protect tables, columns, or individual fields with as much flexibility as you could think of.
This whole path has allowed me to ease into Unix more or less gracefully, which has allowed me to continue in my chosen career path, doing projects that are interesting and profitable. Four months ago I knew nothing about Unix, had only a modicum of knowledge about Lasso 3, a solid background in DNS, e-mail servers, listservs, and WebStar. Now I have five database-enabled sites up and running. If you're interested, here is one to look at:
http://db.climbingcentral.com/f_forums.lasso
Hope this helps somebody out who might be making a decision.
