[plug] PDA's

[Chris Caston]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 23:52, Chris Watt wrote:
> When it comes to this i'm fairly useless as I've never looked into it before.
> 
> What I want to do is basically create and maintain a database of phone
> calls, kms travelled, etc.
> 
> If anyone knows of a platform (palm or windows i guess?) that has a
> good database program that i can sync/backup to my mac that'd be
> awesome too.
> 
> Cheers

I bought the Palm Z22 which provides a simple flat file database called
MobileDB. It uses the palm database format and can easily be synced with
a Windows machine. I haven't tried with Linux or Mactel yet, however,

regards,

Chris 
> 
> 
> 
> On 11/28/05, Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
> > Lance Duivenbode wrote:
> > > Hmm, haven't heard of anything but I don't like your chances - MySQL is
> > > particularly resource hungry and PDA's don't usually have a lot of
> > > resources to play with!
> > >
> > > Perhaps you could look at some other solution - SQLite, C based CGI, and
> > > mini_httpd? The company I work for has deployed the 2nd and 3rd parts
> > > successfully on low end machines.
> > >
> > > Let me know if you want more info/help.
> >
> > Something like SQLite and Python's SimpleHTTPServer would do too.
> > Depending on the platform, so might a lightwight native GUI.
> >
> > I do agree that Apache and MySQL seem to be, if nothing else, nuking a
> > fly for that job.
> >
> > --
> > Craig Ringer
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