[plug] Web / Database advice sought

[Alexander Hartner]

I see a couple of you tried out the website but didn't enter valid email addresses. I can't blame you but I got the bounce backs. You can either put in a valid email address in which case the PDF will be emailed to you, or click on the PDF link to view it inside your browser (or download it).

Have fun
Alex

On 01/09/2011, at 16:00 , Alexander Hartner wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am most likely going to get a lot of criticism for suggesting this, but I would recommend Java for the following reasons:
> 
> 1.) Run on Linux and Windows
> 2.) Free runtime and developer kit including IDE
> 3.) Lots of open source libraries to do:
> 3.1) Web base applications
> 3.2) Generate picture perfect PDFs which will print just fine
> 3.3) All the stuff in between
> 
> I was doing a POC on what can be achieved and came up with this:
> 
> http://j2anywhere.com/WebSign/
> 
> What this web application does is capture a signature (via tablet etc but works with mouse as well) and submits it to the server. The server then takes the signature and places it inside a PDF file. You can try it out for yourself, just draw a squiggle instead of signing it of course.
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> On 01/09/2011, at 15:35 , Brad Campbell wrote:
> 
>> G'day all,
>> 
>> I'm playing with an electronic component catalogue / stock / label printer idea. At the moment I'm using Postgres as the back end and Openoffice Base as the front.
>> 
>> I've bumped up against some fairly ugly sharp edges in Base and am contemplating moving to something browser based.
>> 
>> The label printing part uses a Windows based package from Avery (running in an XP VM) which happens to work incredibly nicely with a Postgres / Linux back end.
>> 
>> I'm stuck in that the only tools in my toolbox are Pascal, Python & Bash. I'm perfectly willing to learn another language, the question is which one?
>> 
>> This is a simple forms based database front end. What I don't want is page reloads every time a control changes, so I guess I'm after something with a little bit of smarts in the client.
>> 
>> The other option is a really good cross-platform database front end (something like the old Foxpro). I could knock it out in FreePascal, but I think it's time I learned something a bit more browser oriented (as you can see, my tool cupboard is sparse at best).
>> 
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