Re: Here we go again...
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2006
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = No, that's a "going out of business" price. Sincerely, Kenneth Grome owner@kengrome.com kengrome@gmail.com www.kengrome.com On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:21:46 -0700, Bess Ho wrote: > Pricing is going up...? > > -----Original Message----- > From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of > Kenneth Grome > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:26 AM > To: WebDNA Talk > Subject: Re: Here we go again... > > > Hi Bess, > > It's $20 per hour now. > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > > owner@kengrome.com > kengrome@gmail.com > www.kengrome.com > > > > > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:29:11 -0700, Bess Ho wrote: >> Kenneth, >> >> What is the hourly charge for your php programmers? I will consider >> this service for my personal use if it is reasonable. >> >> I want to build something for myself but I don't have the time to do so. >> >> Bess >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of >> Kenneth Grome >> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:41 PM >> To: WebDNA Talk >> Subject: Re: Here we go again... >> >> >>> Performance really comes down to how things >>> are structured. Code for scale and I don't see >>> any limitations with webdna. >> >> This assumes that it's practical or possible to "code for scale" in >> webdna all the time. But this is not always possible ... >> >> In the example I just gave a day or so ago it was practically >> impossible to "code for scale". Maybe you have not personally >> experienced this type of situation and that's why you don't see any >> limitations in webdna, but I have seen this situation -- more than >> once -- and it's not a fun situation to be in when you love webdna >> and want to use it for everything. >> >> In my recent example the data came from another source -- a source >> that uses FMPro as its original database. This is not some little >> company either, it is the leader in its industry. >> >> To make this data work in webdna means exporting it as tab-delimited >> text files, then using those resulting flat files -- and whatever >> coding techniques are available in webdna -- to get the search >> results required by the client. The problem is that the data is not >> structured for efficient use of webdna (by any stretch of the >> imagination) so webdna is pathetically slow when doing the kind of >> searches the client requires. >> >> As the web developer on this project, I did not have authorization to >> go in and reformat these multi-megabyte data files in order to "make >> them work" with webdna. This would have taken 10-20 times as long as >> trying another software. Besides, I was not convinced that webdna >> would perform as well as MySQL even if we did go in and reformat the >> databases to optimize them for webdna -- because I've seen slow >> performance in similar situations before when using webdna on such >> large data sets (without nested searches) -- and I didn't want the >> client to have to pay for all that labor only to find that webdna >> still couldn't handle the task. >> >> So instead of "coding or scale" which would have meant restructuring >> the database files that we exported from FMPro, I had my put >> everything we had into PHP/MySQL. It took him less than 10 hours to >> do this (at $1.20 an hour for his labor) ... so for about twelve >> bucks I was able to see that PHP/MySQL was far superior to webdna in >> this situation. This saved the client hundreds if not thousands of >> dollars over using a webdna solution. >> >> The bottom line here is that webdna has serious limitations that make >> it a poor substitute for MySQL in certain situations. In these >> situations MySQL and other truly relational data systems are far >> better suited to the tasks at hand. >> >> Sincerely, >> Kenneth Grome >> >> owner@kengrome.com >> kengrome@gmail.com >> www.kengrome.com >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list
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No, that's a "going out of business" price. Sincerely, Kenneth Grome owner@kengrome.com kengrome@gmail.com www.kengrome.com On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 11:21:46 -0700, Bess Ho wrote: > Pricing is going up...? > > -----Original Message----- > From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of > Kenneth Grome > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 8:26 AM > To: WebDNA Talk > Subject: Re: Here we go again... > > > Hi Bess, > > It's $20 per hour now. > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > > owner@kengrome.com > kengrome@gmail.com > www.kengrome.com > > > > > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 11:29:11 -0700, Bess Ho wrote: >> Kenneth, >> >> What is the hourly charge for your php programmers? I will consider >> this service for my personal use if it is reasonable. >> >> I want to build something for myself but I don't have the time to do so. >> >> Bess >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: WebDNA Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf Of >> Kenneth Grome >> Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 7:41 PM >> To: WebDNA Talk >> Subject: Re: Here we go again... >> >> >>> Performance really comes down to how things >>> are structured. Code for scale and I don't see >>> any limitations with webdna. >> >> This assumes that it's practical or possible to "code for scale" in >> webdna all the time. But this is not always possible ... >> >> In the example I just gave a day or so ago it was practically >> impossible to "code for scale". Maybe you have not personally >> experienced this type of situation and that's why you don't see any >> limitations in webdna, but I have seen this situation -- more than >> once -- and it's not a fun situation to be in when you love webdna >> and want to use it for everything. >> >> In my recent example the data came from another source -- a source >> that uses FMPro as its original database. This is not some little >> company either, it is the leader in its industry. >> >> To make this data work in webdna means exporting it as tab-delimited >> text files, then using those resulting flat files -- and whatever >> coding techniques are available in webdna -- to get the search >> results required by the client. The problem is that the data is not >> structured for efficient use of webdna (by any stretch of the >> imagination) so webdna is pathetically slow when doing the kind of >> searches the client requires. >> >> As the web developer on this project, I did not have authorization to >> go in and reformat these multi-megabyte data files in order to "make >> them work" with webdna. This would have taken 10-20 times as long as >> trying another software. Besides, I was not convinced that webdna >> would perform as well as MySQL even if we did go in and reformat the >> databases to optimize them for webdna -- because I've seen slow >> performance in similar situations before when using webdna on such >> large data sets (without nested searches) -- and I didn't want the >> client to have to pay for all that labor only to find that webdna >> still couldn't handle the task. >> >> So instead of "coding or scale" which would have meant restructuring >> the database files that we exported from FMPro, I had my put >> everything we had into PHP/MySQL. It took him less than 10 hours to >> do this (at $1.20 an hour for his labor) ... so for about twelve >> bucks I was able to see that PHP/MySQL was far superior to webdna in >> this situation. This saved the client hundreds if not thousands of >> dollars over using a webdna solution. >> >> The bottom line here is that webdna has serious limitations that make >> it a poor substitute for MySQL in certain situations. In these >> situations MySQL and other truly relational data systems are far >> better suited to the tasks at hand. >> >> Sincerely, >> Kenneth Grome >> >> owner@kengrome.com >> kengrome@gmail.com >> www.kengrome.com >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to >> the mailing list . >> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >> >> Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: > To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > > Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . 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