On Feb 17, 2008, at 12:47 PM, cfirsten wrote:
> Ok so I decided that Dabo is for me ..Is it?What I want to do with
> it is not
> very complicated , I want to create a gui for some winxp machines that
> interact with a mysql back-end and I want the user to be able to
> save data
> into the mysql db and also be able to search and run reports on that
> db.
>
> What I have on my hands is that I work for a company that sells
> movies ( no
> ,not a big time company) and we have about 200 movies and 15,000
> contacts.So
> before I dig any deeper into dabo I'm waiting for an advice from you
> guys.Can it be done?
> I want the user to be able to add new contacts and new movies also.A
> movie
> can be related to many contacts and a contact can be related to many
> movies.The user should also be able to run searches through the db ,
> so for
> example he wants to see how many contacts are related to X-movie and
> be able
> to print that info out.
> This is my first project but wait till you get a load of the second
> one.
Have you done much database development before? This doesn't sound
very complex at all.
> I want exim to route every e-mail that comes in into a mysql db
> build on
> those contacts and "place" every e-mail under the contact it came in
> from
> and I also want the ui to be searchable in terms of contacts and/or
> emails.Ok , so for the e-mails that don't yet have a contact I want
> them to
> be dropped into a separate db for later review.So , for example I
> get an
> e-mail from somebody that's not in the database that e-mail should be
> dropped into the db anyway somewhere like not-in-db for a manual
> review by
> the user.After the user adds the contact into the usual db the e-
> mail should
> be moved where it belongs along with the contact info.
Are you looking to use Dabo to do this, or exim?
> The db should be searchable from the ui and let's say I want to see
> all my
> conversations with Ed Leafe I would do a search in the ui and all my
> e-mails
> to Ed and from Ed should be right there.The ui should also be able
> to add
> new contact info into the db.
> I'm not asking too much , am I?
Again, this sounds like a very common database app.
> The reason I'm telling you all this is that I want an opinion from
> you , how
> long will it take you to build such a beast and then I'll be able to
> multiply that by 10 and have my answer to forward that to my
> boss.Cause
> that's how long I think it will take me to do it.
Do you already have the database design in place, or are you creating
that, too?
There's really no way to estimate time, since it depends completely
on a) how adept you are at database design, b) how familiar you are
with the framework, and c) your overall development experience.
-- Ed Leafe
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