Charlie's RAD.sb
framework for SpiderBasicยฉ
RAD.sb is in very early development.
Site Content
RAD.sb Support Tools
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- Licences
- This site created with ยฉTiddlyWiki
- Plugins: DetailsWidget, Relink, Tidgraph
- SpiderBasic ยฉ Fantaisie Software
Check out these RAD.sb-based SpiderBasic projects:
- RAD.sb Tester (an application to test and showcase RAD.sb)
- ASL.sb (an application to help learn American Sign Language)
Hello,
I am a career-long SQLWindows (today: OpenText Gupta Team Developer) programmer, just a little over 25 years now.
When I first worked with SQLWindows on a computer science work term back in 1993, I immediately appreciated the product because it worked in a way I think:
- English-like (non-cryptic) programming language
- A very organized outline for source code
- Folding of source code that has always been best of class, unrivaled back in 1993 and still to this day
- Object-Oriented in a way that makes sense to me
- Event-Driven in a way that makes sense to me
- Excellent for rapid development of database applications
Although a superb product, SQLWindows is much too expensive for hobby-programming. Besides, I have no interest in using any kind of computers other than Linux-enabled Chromebooks at home.
In my quest to find the right hobby-programming tools for home, I found myself extremely frustrated by available options until I discovered SpiderBasic. My likes:
- English-like (non-cryptic) programming language that feels very familiar (fits right in with the Basic programming experience of my childhood and, along with Pascal and Fortan, the programming experience of my college years )
- Compilation to javascript for creating client-side web applications
- A wonderful lightness about it, a certain no-nonsense minimalism that makes it ridiculously fun and enjoyable.
Yet for all of my fascination with the little gem that is SpiderBasic, I found myself continuously frustrated by the lack of structure that suits me so well with SQLWindows. Hence this RAD.sb project.
With RAD.sb, I am attempting to create a framework that facilitates rapid development of database applications with SpiderBasic. With this TiddlyWiki instance, I hope to document the project effort along with technical details about the framework and how to guides about using the framework. Big job!
RAD.sb is in very early development.
RAD.sb is a framework for SpiderBasic that:
- supports rapid application development
- enables some object-oriented concepts
- enhances event-driven programming
Rapid Application Development.(aka "RAD")
About RAD
Rapid-application development (RAD), also called rapid-application building (RAB), is both a general term, used to refer to adaptive software development approaches, as well as the name for James Martin's approach to rapid development. In general, RAD approaches to software development put less emphasis on planning and more emphasis on an adaptive process. [...]
RAD is especially well suited for (although not limited to) developing software that is driven by user interface requirements. Graphical user interface builders are often called rapid application development tools. Other approaches to rapid development include the adaptive, agile, spiral, and unified models.
RAD emphasizes the development of functional prototypes that can be quickly designed, developed, and altered/enhanced. Prototypes:
- facilitate quick assessment of effort required to deliver software functionality/features
- help elicit and understand software requirements
- when well-designed, can evolve, iteratively and incrementally, into the end product
- facilitate a release early / release often philosophy