How do I use it?
CeleriQ.NET allows you to build listing application fast and with great ease. It was designed to solve the need of creating a listing website with much more functionality than traditional SQL would provide. Instead of using traditional SQL, you can now use the CeleriQ engine to create a strongly-typed, data-driven website. All aspects that are need to create a custom application are part of the package. Instead of programmers hammering out code, you have more designers creating your site. Software designers then spend their time solving business needs instead of programmers solving technical problems. This is very important. Software developers spend enormous amounts of time tweaking code and perfecting algorithms. While in the end this does solve a business need, you run into the law of diminishing returns. Programmers are people just like everyone else and without a defined measurable goal, they will continue to build code. This may or may not be needed. Many times they want to tweak code to make it a little better or a little faster. Rarely do companies do cost/benefit analysis to determine where to stop the development.
This new type of engine allows software developers to become software designers. Sometime you cannot see the forest for the trees. This is very true when building software. We become so focused on solving a technical problem that we may overlook the fact that it is not the real problem. CeleriQ.NET removes the writing of technical source code and allows designers to focus on the problem at hand. If you need to show N widgets on a web page, sorted by name, and filtered by ten parameters then it is done. There is no need to schedule two months on a project plan and build some grandiose engine. CeleriQ creates a metabase of any object type with all sorts of related data and gives you access to it in a fraction of a second, with no SQL writing.
Example
Below is a callout graphic that explains some of the features of the Reference UI site. You can see the dimension filters on the left side bar. Also notice the number next to each dimension value. This indicates the number of items down that path. The pagination control is clearly visible with the "Go to" page links in bold and the records per page too. The sorting options are displayed below the pagination. The main body of the page lists the records.
