http://www.angrysprite.com trace(actionscriptRants[Math.round(Math.random() * (actionscriptRants.length - 1))]); Wed, 14 May 2008 16:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am sorry for the lack of updates over the last few weeks. I have been very busy with a non-AIR related project, and have not had the time or energy to get on this. I will be devoting more time to this project over the next few days, and would ... http://www.angrysprite.com/2008/05/14/orm-project-delay/ The code base is getting a lot closer to being ready for an alpha release, but here is a quick example of how to use the orm to get an array of all users with a first name containing the string 'matt'. [as] import com.angrysprite.data.Database; import com.angrysprite.data.models.DataModelFactory; import com.angrysprite.data.models.DataModelStatement; import com angrysprite.data.QuerySet; import com.angrysprite.events.DatabaseEvent; import com.angrysprte.events.DataModelStatementEvent; import com.angrysprite.models.User; private ... http://www.angrysprite.com/2008/04/10/simple-actionscript-orm-example/ I put together the start of a a dynamic query set builder today. It is still in the beginning stages, but it already has some real power. [as] var qs:QS = new QS().filter([{name__iexact: 'adsf', insider_id__notnull: '', age__gt: 18},{name: 'bob'}]).exclude([{age: 21}]) trace(qs.output()); [/as] Outputs: [sql] ...((age > :age1 AND insider_id IS NOT NULL AND LOWER(name) = LOWER(:name1)) OR ... http://www.angrysprite.com/2008/04/04/6/ I have been playing with Air for a while now, and while I love that SQLite was included, I hate embedding SQL in my AS code. It's 2008, we should not be working this way. For anyone who does work in other languages the lack of an ORM (Object Relational ... http://www.angrysprite.com/2008/04/03/actionscript-sqlite-orm/