Thanks Julio.
To clarify - this system will be custom-built so it won't work in exactly the same way as the others. From what I've seen of them, they're all about planning one project. The interface I describe will plan only one project, but our system manages 100+ active projects at any one time, so the interface needs to give feedback as to whether you're allocating someone who's already allocated elsewhere. It's also the way my colleagues have been used to planning projects, so we can't change the interface too radically (to the calendar style, for instance). We have something similar to it already, but it's just a series of input boxes for weeks going forwards (and is consequently terrible to use). We only just managed to ween them off Excel, but they're seriously pining for draggability. ;-) And also to clarify, when I said "how much" I meant $/hr. Thanks again! -- Tim McEwan Sent with Sparrow On Monday, 31 January 2011 at 17:37, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > Maybe you don't need to replicate MS Project or Omniplan's interface > for it to be usable. Why not a Google Calendar-like one? Personal > preference aside, for the task you just describe, it's suitable. > > > > - would you stick with Rails/JS or go with > > Flash/Air/whatever-that-microsoft-one-is? > > > > > > Rails/JS. Though I'm no expert in Flash/Air to judge how easier/harder > it would be. I tend to think you'd be painting yourself against a > corner by going down that route. > > > > - how much is a Rails/jQuery guru of the required calibre? > > > > > > If the requirements are really just the ones you've mentioned, > back-end wise it's dead easy to built. As for the interface, not so > much. But perhaps you don't have to start from scratch → > http://www.queness.com/post/656/10-beautiful-jquery-and-mootool-calendar-plugins > > > > - do you think the time estimate is feasible? > > > > > > Yes. Should the requirements stay as such. > > > > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Tim McEwan <t...@mcewan.it> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I want to build a MS Project/Omniplan-style project planning interface in a > > web browser. I'm really keen for jQuery & HTML5 and stuff, but if it's > > going to be a ludicrous undertaking, I'd settle for something like Flash. > > We basically need to allocate team members to tasks and then time to the > > team members, but ease of use for non-techies is key, so we need things to > > be draggable. > > I'm thinking me (Rails moderate, no jQuery) + one Rails/jQuery guru for two > > months @ 35 hours/week oughtta do it. Am I dreaming? > > If you'd be so kind, please send me your thoughts on: > > - would you stick with Rails/JS or go with > > Flash/Air/whatever-that-microsoft-one-is? > > - do you think the time estimate is feasible? > > - how much is a Rails/jQuery guru of the required calibre? > > - would you like to be that guru? * > > - no really, am I dreaming? > > * It'd have to be onsite at UTS, if you're interested. > > Cheers, > > -- > > Tim McEwan > > Sent with Sparrow > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > > > > > > -- > http://awesomebydesign.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to rails-oceania@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rails-oceania+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
