http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm A series of occasional musings on architecting, securing, optimizing and generating web based applications. By Peter Bell. en-us Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:12:03 -0400 Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:27:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss pbell@systemsforge.com pbell@systemsforge.com http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/29/Automatic-Metabase-Generation If you want to generate a metabase (a database designed to store declarative metadata for re-use across multiple applications), it is actually quite easy – you just have to understand the range of potential abstract grammars to support and then write a generalized routine to transform a grammar into a set of related tables . . . [More] Application Generation Active Data Modeling Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:27:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/29/Automatic-Metabase-Generation http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/29/The-Power-of-the-Active-Data-Model As I have discussed before, there are many different ways of storing metadata. You can write scripts, create XML files, draw diagrams or store them in a database. This posting looks at the benefits of storing metadata in a database for extremely high levels of efficient re-use so you really can generate custom applications in minutes, not months . . . [More] Application Generation Active Data Modeling Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:54:00 -0400 http://www.pbell.com/index.cfm/2007/1/29/The-Power-of-the-Active-Data-Model