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Thanks for your response
I don't see this extension as being useful or necessary for recording the instant at which an event occurred. That's quite adequately handled by simply recording a simple temporal value. The construct doesn't offer any help with modeling repeated times or intervals (e.g. the last Thursday in each month) but ...
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I've been thinking of exploring temporal modeling through introducing "one at a time" uniqueness constraints. That is, where the mapping takes care of the mapping of the history of a given N-ary fact type, by internally injecting a time role into the fact type, and enforcing the time roles to model uniqueness at a point in time. The ...
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[quote user="Matthew Curland"]I'll have to think more on the composite derived identifiers[/quote]
While you're thinking on it, consider whether there might be a good way to auto-assign one part of a multi-part key. For example, in ActiveFacts, each Role is identified by its FactType and a Position within that FactType. ...
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[quote user="Matthew Curland"]Where do you suggest I put the APRIMO strips on my laptop[/quote]
You don't need one. There are only four or five keystrokes relevant at any point, and the prompt text fits on the single status line, changing as you hover over different things. I need to do something a bit different in the iPad, ...
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[quote user="shada22"]This seems like bloated nested menu syndrome to me.[/quote]
To me too. APRIMO is several times faster to work with, because it has no context menus at all.
For a uniqueness constraint, select the role not covered and type "1". That adds a UC over the other roles.
To toggle a mandatory ...
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[quote user="shada22"]That is to say that a AutoCounter SEQUENCE reference mode ought to be viewed as being requiring the entity to be independent if nothing else requires the entity to exist on its own.
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That's what ActiveFacts does.
[quote user="Matthew Curland"]There are actually two stages in the ...
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For the record, ActiveFacts and CQL currently only supports CW ("Booking is confirmed" must be either true or false for each Booking),
though CWN is on the cards: "maybe Booking is confirmed;"... I don't think OW is useful and don't plan to implement it ;-).
The 2010-02 cut of NORMA allowed you to get CW by setting ...
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Could this lead to abuse?
Of course, that's why there's a copyright notice on it, which is sufficient for me to pursue commercial abuse (and for the same reason). The JS only represents 3-4 weeks of work, the bulk of the work is in the server-side. In any case, as they say, imitation is the sincerest form of ...
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Pierre,
Perhaps you'd like a pony with that? :-)
More than 90% of my last three years of unpaid work is available free of charge. You can build models of almost any complexity, using almost every feature of ORM2 that's available in NORMA (you can also import from NORMA), and a few that aren't. The tools generate code for MSSQL, ...
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Pierre,
When I last corresponded with Brian (18 months ago) he had no plans for further work on ORM-Lite. I believe he got married few months back - congratulations Brian! - so may continue to have other priorities for some time.
At the time I was considering producing a similar thing in Flash and asked if I could borrow ideas from his ...