Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ...
by NOGDP on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:09PM
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> Every place I have ever worked has at least one app that someone hacked together through some combination of PDFs, Excel and Access... I continue to be amazed by what dedicated people pull-off with these no-code solutions.
VBA, SQL, etc, which is probably what these apps are written with, are code though.
Honeycode is a language of it's own too, it's just a trade off between flexibility/power and learning curve.
Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ...
by dataminded on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:37PM
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I should have been more explicit, the things are built in Excel and Access with the front-end interfaces not VBA or SQL.
Re:Amazon Honeycode – build web and mobile apps without writ...
by buu700 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @10:41PM
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Agreed. When I was a teenager a worked at an organization whose entire business was run on internal applications built out in FileMaker Pro largely by non-programmer teenagers and young adults. It was actually pretty awesome, and I was still able to drop into a basic scripting language on the few occasions I needed to implement some non-trivial logic.
You sir have options. Every place I have ever worked has at least one app that someone hacked together through some combination of PDFs, Excel and Access. This is a tremendous opportunity for those folks. The ones who will never learn to code, never learn to deploy an application and never get enough visibility to have a developer assigned to their project.
For the everyteam, these types of tools are exceptional. I continue to be amazed by what dedicated people pull-off with these no-code solutions.