Thanks for the sentiment. The project has started to take on a life of it's own. My friends and co-workers are the encouragement here.

You make a very good point about performance being something to optimize after you have at least a prototype - I guess that's the nature of iterative development after all - but I was trying to think my way through this one first. (Not my usual technique, I admit). Since I'm not too skilled yet at hashes and managing them, I'm a tad leery of what the query/select statements will look like and what_not. I know to bind columns to a csv table and query from that; not sure what the equivalent construct would be for a hash. Any thoughts there?

I like the Tie idea. The module seems reasonable enough for a novice like me.

As for optimization after the prototyping, well, there are the Monks, aren't there? ;)

In reply to Re^2: More than one way to skin an architecture by mcoblentz
in thread More than one way to skin an architecture by mcoblentz

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