{"id":20,"date":"2008-02-22T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T00:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=20"},"modified":"2010-07-19T21:54:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T09:54:20","slug":"kexi-review-access-bruiser-but-not-access-killer-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/kexi-review-access-bruiser-but-not-access-killer-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Kexi review (Access bruiser but not Access Killer yet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my disappointing experiences with OpenOffice Base last year I was worried that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kexi-project.org\/\">Kexi<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t be much good.  But it was &#8211; within its limits.  The interface seemed excellent and intuitive and even though it wasn&#8217;t anywhere near as familiar to me as the Access interface (many thousands of hours) I found myself getting quite fast at it quite easily.  My real issues relate to scripting.  It was exciting to see that I could use python with Kexi as my scripting language but it is not clear yet how to add lots of sophisticated functionality e.g. when I update this field I want to check 3 other values and some data in the database and enable, disable some widgets and produce some messageboxes.  This may well be easy (someone please correct me) but I don&#8217;t have lots of time to gamble on this if it is not ready.  If I can get that sorted (including lots of good documentation on how to control and read from the widgets using python), I will take the next step and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koffice.org\/kugar\/\">Kugar<\/a> &#8211; the reporting part of Kexi.  If all these parts work, and there is at least one decent book on Kexi in English, we might actually have an Access Killer.  Kexi + MySQL + Kugar could be a winning combination for rapid application development &#8211; especially by non-programmers.<\/p>\n<p>[update version 2.2 is released and looks promising &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koffice.org\/news\/koffice-2-2-released\/\">http:\/\/www.koffice.org\/news\/koffice-2-2-released\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my disappointing experiences with OpenOffice Base last year I was worried that Kexi wouldn&#8217;t be much good. But it was &#8211; within its limits. The interface seemed excellent and intuitive and even though it wasn&#8217;t anywhere near as familiar &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/kexi-review-access-bruiser-but-not-access-killer-yet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","category-open-source","category-python"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}