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How to build a web application (database front end) quickly and without programming knowledges ?

As I am a developper, I like to program myself web apps (in PHP, J2EE, or JBoss Seam), but sometime, we don’t have the time to build it by hand, even with Ruby On Rail (RoR).

There are solution to automatically build a web app from a database schema, and without code generation :

Oracle Application Express

The most famous is Oracle Application Express. APEX is a rapid web application development tool for the Oracle database.  Using only a web browser and limited programming experience, you can develop and deploy web applications.

Advantages :
– Very quick and easy, no programming knowledges for a basic database front end. And SQL, javascript, PL/SQL for advanced customisation
– Free (no cost) with Oracle XE (but RAM limited to 1Gb, disque space to 4Go, and one CPU)
Disadvantage :
– Only for Oracle DB
– can’t be hosted on a classic LAMP server

Xataface

Xataface is an open source PHP framework for building PHP/MySQL applications in less time that with fewer lines of code that do more.
Advantage :
– Very quick and easy (perhaps not as APEX), no programming knowledges
– Free and open source (GPL)
– Works with most of hosted server (PHP, MySQL)
Disadvantage :
– Looks a little beta for now (october 2009)
– less features than APEX..

I have some experience with APEX, and I will test Xataface in details soon. Do you know others solutions like that ? What’s your experiences with it ?

Android & Freephonie : Comment téléphoner gratuitement avec son mobile

Comme vous le savez peut-être, Free offre gratuitement un service SIP à ses abonnés : Freephonie. Cet accès SIP permet d’utiliser sa ligne téléphonique Free depuis n’importe quel accès Internet en France.

Pour utiliser cette connexion SIP, il suffit d’avoir un client SIP : il en existe une grande quantité sur PC, et sur Android il existe le fameux SIPDroid. SIPDroid est un client SIP capable d’appeler et de recevoir des appels via une connexion SIP.

SIPDroid c’est vraiment génial pour téléphoner gratuitement sur les fixes. Et si votre opérateur l’autorise (je crois aucun en France), il est même possible de passer par le réseau 3G (donc sans wifi) pour en profiter…

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