Logging Device Tokens

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Tue Aug 7 13:32:14 EDT 2012


Databases are so stupid-easy that I am using a DB.  I've tried both an
angry hard-core DBMS and LC connected to <censored/>.  Both work great.  If
you are scared of/inexperienced with databases, then there are several LC
database libraries that will make that problem go away.

I think you guys are overthinking this.  You are right that the server side
is the hard part, but there are lots of ways to fix that:
a) Implement an HTML server - there are several examples, and somebody
(sorry, forgot who) has a LC Server hosting service, if you want to keep it
all in LC.
b) Think about it - the communication of the token and notification prefs
does not have to be real-time i.e. this very millisecond.  That leaves you
with thousands of possibilities.  For example, you could generate a file on
the mobile device, encrypt it, then use one of the dropbox externals to
upload it.  Then your "server" can pull the file/data, decrypt it, and
update the database at your leisure, or half-a-second later, whichever
suits you better.
c) Pick some other asynchronous method to transmit the data from the
handheld.


HTH
Mike
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