Dabble DB = CCK + Views + 12 Duvels

Peter Van Dijck sent me a link to this Dabble DB demo, referring to it as Drupal's CCK and Views after twelve Duvels. :)

Peter is right. Dabble DB is awesome, Drupal can do much of what Dabble DB can do, and has been able to do so for a long time. Witness this one year old Drupal screencast. Where Drupal fails short is in making this functionality easy to use.

I still believe that it is of strategic importance that we move more of the CCK and Views into Drupal's main distribution, as opposed to keeping them contributed modules that you need to install separately. And when we do, we need to look at tools like Dabble DB, as there is a lot to learn from their user interface and interaction design.

I wish we had more people willing to make this happen. I'll be the first in line to help, because together we can get the CCK and Views to the next level.

Update: Dabble DB was acquired by Twitter and the Dabble DB website no longer exists. The link to the original demo video broke but I updated it to point to a backup on YouTube. YouTube seems to have two good videos on Dabble DB that are worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wZmYMWKLkY and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCVj5RZOqwY.