[Year 12 IT Apps] query RE macintosh db & programming tools

[Laurie Savage]

Macs are "Unix" under the hood and if my memory serves me well PHP and
possible Python and/or Ruby are sitting there as well just waiting for the
command line to be opened up. As for relational DBs - Filemaker is
interesting. I find it less robust than its Windows cousins and I wouldn't
use it for anything more mission critical than an address book or office
memo system, but it's fairly easy to use. For me the features that make it
user friendly - build relationships in an ad hoc fashion, calculations
embedded in the forms, the form as a metaphor rather than a table - are its
central problems in terms of speed, robustness and creating queries. But I
haven't built/sold any Filemaker apps in a while and it might have changed!

LS

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Filemaker Pro (available for Windows too)

Adam Barbary
Viewbank College

On 16/10/2008, at 10:49 AM, Bicknell, Paul P wrote:

> We have been a Windows school up to now but we are converting to 
> Macintosh later this year. So I am interested to hear from people the 
> names of the relational db and programming tools that they use for ITA 
> using the Mac platform.
> Thanks
> Paul Bicknell, Maribyrnong SC
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