DaDaBIK®
Posted by Eugenio on 12 Mar 2012
Hi all,
I would like to understand which are the DBMSs DaDaBIK is mostly used with, in order to understand where to focus the implementation efforts on.
Here is a one-question-survery http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RCPS5WD, could you take 5 seconds to answer?
Thanks!
Posted by Eugenio on 19 Feb 2012
Hi all,
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About the support, I am using Dreamhost for a project I'm working on (sharing Web hosting and VPS Mysql) and I had the chance to test it: I don't know if the service is the same for all the plans but they literally saved my life last Christmas night when, by mistake, I dropped a very important MySQL table....yes, I did it, it happens :(
After having waited some time, I managed to chat - during Christmas night - with a guy from the support and the next day they provided a backup of the table (created automatically) that let me recover almost all the data; I lost only the last 36 hours of activity. Just for this reason I think I can promote their services, something I usually don't do.
Let me know, if you try it, your impressions.
P.S. Note that sometimes Dreamhost provides other special discounts, different from the one I'm providing and that you can't combine discount with additional discount.
UPDATE: I realized that, to use the DaDaBIK promo code, you have to go directly to http://signup.dreamhost.com/; at some point, the subscription procedure will ask you for an (optional) promo code. Furthermore, you should clean dreamhost cookies if you visited the homepage before, because otherwise the system takes the current dreamhost promotion as default. Very bad, I know :(
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Posted by Eugenio on 14 Feb 2012
Hi all,
a new DaDaBIK version is available. Back to work on DaDaBIK after a long parenthesis during which I was mainly doing research and working on my Mentor.FM project.
Version 4.4 beta fixes several bugs (see change log for a complete list).
A new bug related to dates has also been discovered and not yet fixed; not sure if it is correct to call it bug but for sure it can lead to unexpected results, modifying the date values you have in your database. Thanks to Mauri for having reported part of the problem, please look at the known bugs section of the documentation for all the details.
The lack of a locking mechanism has also been highlighted in the documentation, since the current behaviour could lead, in some situations, to unexpected results and data loss.
About the roadmap, the idea is to release a 4.4 final after having found the best possible solution for the dates "bug" and, later, to release a 5.0 alpha which will include a new security model and also provide a locking mechanism.
Stay tuned!
Posted by Eugenio on 22 May 2011
Hi all,
I am glad to announce that Alessandro Andreoli, an Italian student of the University of Milan, decided to join the DaDaBIK team and to do a very important work on DaDaBIK as part of his master thesis in Computer Science.
Alessandro is working on the new DaDaBIK security model, something I wanted to implement since years but I didn't find the time to.
When his work will be finished, it will be possible to create group of users and to set permissions at a very granual level, for example saying that the group X has read permissions on the table customers while user Y has also write permission on that table, but not on the field customers.phone_number.
It is a very important shift toward the adoption of DaDaBIK in an enterprise environment.
A big "thank you!" to Alessandro from all the DaDaBIK community.
Another big news is that I'm writing from the United States, where I'm going to live for some months as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley.
I Hope to give you some news about the next release of DaDaBIK soon!
Ciao,
Posted by Eugenio on 8 Apr 2011
Hi,
the locking mechanism is the feature chosen among all the ones proposed by users in the Like, disLike and Propose Wiki.
I want to discuss the implementation details with the users so please leave your comments in the Wiki! Registration is not mandatory to write.
Thanks!
Ciao,