pleonasm

My long waiting for Mac flavor of an easy web driven database application come to the end. I just spotted a really cool apps for Mac (sorry PC’s :p), called ModelBaker. It’s said from their website,

ModelBaker in action {What a coincident their using UGA alma-mater on their showcase, just wondering if one of their creator is UGA alumni?}

” Fast and easy web and iPhone & iPod touch application development. No programmers required. With built in MySQL database support and zero programming required”

After give it a shoot for 30 minutes, it’s truly easy to operate and understand how to build web application for my almost zero programming skill like me. But, yet you still need to haven very basic knowledge on how PHP and MySQL works.  Regardless of their Mac styles on interface and user friendliness, this apps also a similar which I found with PHP Runner or PHP maker. The big differences are, they have more complete features and these both application run on Windows. Which I found latter their automatic code generator it’s sooo messy!, it’s difficult for me to follow if I want to tweak it.

If I have to choose, I’m definitely  go with ModelMaker, more inconvenient to have some fun building web application, just for my hobby though :p. However since this apps is still young age, I do have some wish-list : (hope not too much)

1. A full wizard features for common applications
2. Support multilingual templates that can be choose by user while logging in
3. Able to creates password protected PHP pages
4. Customizable and detail user management (self registration, user profile management, etc)
5. Customizable search features
6. Easy database reporting with fancy graphing features
7. Seamlessly integrate geo-referenced data with Google Maps API’s
8. Connect with GPS on iPhone or Android phones
9. Support printing or exported to PDF

1. Make detail user access on each created pages ?
2. Integrate geo-referenced data with Google Maps API’s

Another [dream] wishes: I would more than happy to get free license from ModelBaker creator to support my idealism project for Indonesia Hornbill Citizen Science web application.

Now, can’t wait to spend my another next 6 hour playing with this. For Mac users, worth to give them a shoot.

Disclaimer: I'm not work or any affiliation with the Widget Press, Inc, the creator of ModelBaker