Re: NonProfit 501-C Status

2010-11-08 Thread Technomage Hawke
is that darrel shandrow you are talking about?m if so, I say HI! anyway, I can give an overview on linux accessibility. which distributions work well, and which don't (believe it or not, some don't offer themselves to accessibility as well as others). setting up orca via ssh on an already

OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread keith smith
Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Hi, I would like to write an application that would more than likely run on Windows and interface with MySql.  This would be an app that would interface with a database allowing the user to add / edit / delete data. The need is

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen
2 well MS has a number of their visual studio express editions, or you can look at eclipse. I would suggest looking at eclipse it to me seems more fully featured and more opensource related. visual studio express editions are limited unless you get visual studio. On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:00 AM,

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Mark Phillips
Openoffice connects to MySQL; has a visual designer for databases, reports, input forms, etc; costs $0; and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Without more details on what you are building, this seems to fit your requirements. Mark On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 7:00 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Stephen
Anotherplatform that comes to mind is php or a php web app. On Nov 8, 2010 7:58 AM, Mark Phillips m...@phillipsmarketing.biz wrote: Openoffice connects to MySQL; has a visual designer for databases, reports, input forms, etc; costs $0; and runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. Without more details

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Dean
I'd probably recommend Java. It's pretty good for cross-platform GUI apps (and plenty of other stuff), but there's definitely a learning curve if you're coming from a scripting language background. You'll also need to learn JDBC if you're going to talk to MySQL. Eclipse is a top-notch IDE

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Simon Chatfield
Hi Keith, you've asked a bunch of questions here, and to be honest, based on what you're asking and how, I would recommend you source a developer to take on the effort for you. But, here are my thoughts. Keep it server side, throw a web server on the machine with the database (or ideally,

Re: NonProfit 501-C Status

2010-11-08 Thread Dazed_75
Perhaps we could document the process well enough to let installfest volunteers be capable of setting up a system for a blind user. I am sure that involves more than just turning on orca. It may also mean knowing enough to teach that user the basics of how to use the system. That way the blind

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
The use case you describe was what ms access was built for. It requires the full edition for development but you can use the free version for everyone else. After that I recommend jave with eclipse, after that php. As for security I recommend ssh tunnels but ssl works in a pinch. Note that if you

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Also I have done this many many times. Hit me up if you want detailed help. On 11/8/10, Bryan O'Neal bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote: The use case you describe was what ms access was built for. It requires the full edition for development but you can use the free version for

Re: NonProfit 501-C Status

2010-11-08 Thread Technomage Hawke
yeah, was going to mention that. I had to have help getting my g3 up to working order with some sighted assistance from across the web on Skype. lets just say thats not easy. most of the installer images for the blind (such as blinux, vinux and some of the ubuntu images (desktop or

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Matt Graham
keith smith wrote: I need to create a simple menu, some forms, and the ability to interact with MySql to manage data remotely. I would like to use an open source language, compiled to hide my work would be nice, Visual development environment would be good also. I'd do this in a web

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread keith smith
Thank you for your feedback.  It is a web based PHP app.  It has a control panel for editing the data.  I was thinking it might be nice to have a desktop application that has the same features as the browser based application.  Keith Smith --- On Mon, 11/8/10,

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread keith smith
Hi All, Thank you for all the great idea. I'm building a simple CMS in PHP and was thinking it would be cool to have a desktop application that could do everything that one does in the control panel. I think the desktop app might contain some features not available in the browser based

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:30 AM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi All, Thank you for all the great idea. I'm building a simple CMS in PHP and was thinking it would be cool to have a desktop application that could do everything that one does in the control panel. I think the

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Alex Dean
On Nov 8, 2010, at 10:57 AM, keith smith wrote: Thank you for your feedback. It is a web based PHP app. It has a control panel for editing the data. I was thinking it might be nice to have a desktop application that has the same features as the browser based application. If you

Linux Accessibility Tools: Blind

2010-11-08 Thread Lisa Kachold
This email had been intitially sent on the end of 501c status discussion. We did a great deal of work with The Foundation for Blind Children with the Linux Security Team. I believe they are in the midst of developing applications for the iPhone and Android phones that completely pull the market

What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread joe
. What is the easiest-to-use video editor? On my system, Synaptic lists more than a dozen different video editors that are available, only one of which shows as being installed, called mjpegtools ... but I can'y find it or how to start it. Among the others that appear as available to install are

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread keith smith
I'd like to piggyback on this one.  I recently bought a camera with the intention of creating YouTube videos.  I was going to use the windows movie maker, however now I'm wondering if Linux might have something better.  I'm thinking I will need to take an audio recording and apply some photos

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread Alan Dayley
I can provide some of my own experience here. First off, some of those on the list Synaptic creates are not what I would call video editors, though they may have excellent other uses. Here are the ones I have used or played with: avidemux Great quick and dirty editor for simply cuts, appending

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread joe
Alan wrote: I can provide some of my own experience here. Tremendously helpful Alan. Thanks very much! Joe --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread Carl Parrish
http://mashable.com/2010/06/16/youtube-video-editor/ You might want to check out youTube's video editor. I've used pitivi in the past and it handled what I needed. Here is an article I wrote awhile back so I'm sure a lot of the tech has improved.

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread Dazed_75
I would concur with Alan's assessments. I have used OpenShot rather more than the others because I like it a lot, it has seemed more stable to me, and while I was using it it evolved fairly rapidly. Ubuntu adopted PiTivi at the same time OpenShot was being considered. Personally, I thought

Re: OT? : Open source development tools / programming language

2010-11-08 Thread Thomas Gail Haws
My initial inclination was OpenOffice with MyODBC. I like Alex's points about browsers and Bryan O'Neal's remark about MS Access. If you just think it would be neat to have a desktop component of the Control Panel, maybe simply exposing certain views or tables to OpenOffice.org via MyODBC would

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread keith smith
All very good!!  Thank you! Keith Smith --- On Mon, 11/8/10, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com Subject: Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor? To: Main PLUG discussion list plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date:

Re: What's the easiest-to-use video editor?

2010-11-08 Thread John
I personally like lives as I've found it very easy to use. Stability though isn't it's strong suit but it does recoup nicely from crashes since it saves your work and gives you the option to recover. --- On Mon, 11/8/10, j...@actionline.com j...@actionline.com wrote: From: j...@actionline.com