Re: Witango-Talk: Other SF Project possibilities

2005-05-20 Thread Kevin Quinn
try this: http://24.157.121.217/tboard/ login: test passwd: test   Let me know if ths fits the bill.Jason Pamental <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And here's my gauntlet-throw-down: a good threaded message board. We've all needed one at one time or another, and many different ones exist. But if we had

Re: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Dan Stein
Stefan, I do the same thing my customers host on Tronics some FMP customers at Digital forest or BuddySystems. But they are all used to pay hosting fees and the fees in all 3 cases a very reasonable. Tronics in particular provides outstanding service a reasonable fees especially for the smaller cl

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Stefan Gonick
Presumably, people have to pay for hosting everywhere :) At 05:48 PM 5/20/2005, you wrote: Cool, So what you're saying is, if I'm a Witango developer, that all my customers can host at Tronics for free? Sign me and my customers up! > -Original Message- > From: Stefan Gonick [mailto:[EMA

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Scott Cadillac
Cool, So what you're saying is, if I'm a Witango developer, that all my customers can host at Tronics for free? Sign me and my customers up! > -Original Message- > From: Stefan Gonick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 3:36 PM > To: witango-talk@witango.com > Subj

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread John May
We are considering offering WiTango hosting. Do folks consider that there is a need for an additional host in the arena to choose from? We're currently very well versed in MySQL/FileMaker/Lasso/PHP hosting. Thanks! - John Hi Scott, I don't provide a hosting service, Tronics does. This

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Stefan Gonick
Hi Scott, I don't provide a hosting service, Tronics does. This would be true for any small project in any language. The project will be hosted by some hosting company, not by the client typically. I am a small contractor who just provides a service (deliverable code). I only had one client who hos

Re: Witango-Talk: Witango question concerning cut and paste

2005-05-20 Thread Bill Conlon
I had a component at ncol as part of the component contest that allowed you to store images, pdf, movies, etc in a database. You could look at that as an example to manage the db. Web browsers don't accept pasted binary data, so I think you'll have to use the file upload capability. On Fri

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Scott Cadillac
Hi Stefan, I'd argue that you are not a small contractor then, if you provide an invested infrastructure like hosting. It may seem cheap up front for your customer, but eventually they pay much more as more hosting time goes by don't they? My point is about small contractors who just provide a s

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Stefan Gonick
At 04:22 PM 5/20/2005, you wrote: ** And besides, there are actually three sides to this coin. The other being when a small Contractor like myself has to rely on some small projects to pay the bills (in between larger commitments). Many small projects will range from $ 500.00 to $ 3,000.00. Y

Witango-Talk: Witango question concerning cut and paste

2005-05-20 Thread Wolf, Gene
OK, this is the first time I have run into this so I thought I'd ask the group that would know, or at least could point me in the right direction. I'm creating a database to store information (duh!) One of the users of this database today complained that they could not cut and paste pictures

RE: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Scott Cadillac
Thank you Daniel, This is exactly what I'm saying. For companies with smaller budgets, Witango makes great economic sense - no arguments there. This is where middleware thrives. Witango just needs a nudge in the visibility factor. For larger corporations who don't mind throwing gobs of money at

Re: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Original Message - From: "Scott Cadillac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:50 PM Subject: Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly... (Long read) --- <@snip> --- What do the Fortune 5000 companies (or likewise aspiring companies) want? Enterprise - end

Witango-Talk: Other SF Project possibilities

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Pamental
I have a couple other project possibilities in stuff I've done recently, and if there is interest in them (and people willing to help further them) I'm game to add them as well: A simple live/silent auction management solution - built this for a school's annual fundraiser. Enter auctions (one a

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs. Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Dan Stein
Title: Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs. Witango vs. Oracle Chris while I agree with you on some of this Filemaker is really pretty separate form its parent company. It has its own PR and marketing departments which honestly do a lot better than apples at their job. It has moved forward by making quan

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Pamental
I've created an account on SF and registered the project 'WitangoCronTabEdit' - it should be public within a day or so. I hope to have it show up under Witango as the programming language, so other stuff can go there as well. Not sure how otherwise it will show up, so hopefully this does it. I'll l

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Pamental
I don't think so - yet! We should create one, if possible. - Jason Pamental Director of Web Services North Sails Office: 401.643.1415 Fax: 401.643.1420 Mobile: 401.743.4406 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 20, 2005, at 3:10 PM, Ben Johansen wrote: Well, I knew that ;-) I was wonder if there

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Chris Millet
As I said, "...but FileMaker has the advantage of being able to tap into the marketing and PR know how of it's parent company, Apple." To clarify, I believe the technical benefits of Wi are similar FMP – low dev cost, quick development, ease-of-use, etc. However, the public awareness of the

RE: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Ben Johansen
Well, I knew that ;-) I was wonder if there was a link to the specific place to place WiTango code within the site ;-)   Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango & MDaemon Reseller Available for Web App. Developement From: Stefan Gonick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Stefan Gonick
http://www.sourceforge.net At 02:39 PM 5/20/2005, you wrote: Hey, do you have a link to this sorceforge?   Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango & MDaemon Reseller Available for Web App. Developement From: Jason Pamental [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 20,

Witango-Talk: Rumors of my demise have been greatly...

2005-05-20 Thread Scott Cadillac
(Long read) Every tool has a place, including Witango. But more on that further down. What's all this hubbub about losing face and blank stares? And who do we have to blame for Witango not conquering the world? ...only ourselves. What else do you expect after Pervasive (a multi-million dollar co

RE: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Ben Johansen
Hey, do you have a link to this sorceforge?   Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com Authorized Witango & MDaemon Reseller Available for Web App. Developement From: Jason Pamental [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 11:12 AM To: witango-talk@witango.com Subj

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Jason Pamental
Something we could do, as developers, at little or no real cost... Start keeping the snippets and small projects on SourceForge. If we were to put some of the small things we've given away, or are willing to give away, on SourceForge, that may increase the visibility of the platform. It would then

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Garcia
Also, my google searches are getting global results, not america. The sites I mentioned that have dissapeared, or old an unkept, are just as much in europe/canada as america. --  Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Garcia
Filemaker has a thriving developer community with support sites, third party addons, templates, and so forth. -- Robert Garcia President - BigHead Technology VP Application Development - eventpix.com 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, Ca 95954 ph: 530.645.4040 x222 fax: 530.645.4040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Ben Johansen
Hi Chris,   You nailed it with this… “The reason Wi probably has a stronger global community than a US community is that Wi is not in the Bay area and not nose deep in the PR spin machine.”   Guys, at least those of us in America need to remember that the rest of the world doesn’t nece

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread webdude
Title: Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle Public Relations Everything you are saying here has more to do with perception than with reality. The reason Wi probably has a stronger global community than a US community is that Wi is not in the Bay area and not nose deep in the PR spin machi

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Chris Millet
Public RelationsEverything you are saying here has more to do with perception than with reality. The reason Wi probably has a stronger global community than a US community is that Wi is not in the Bay area and not nose deep in the PR spin machine. I'm not saying Wi needs to be in the US, but rather

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread Robert Garcia
I know, the most frustrating part, is that you want nothing more than to keep using witango.The main thing for me, is not just that no one knows about it anymore, that has been the case since before With picked it up. The problem is for me, that in the last yearish, I think things have gotten signi

Re: Witango-Talk: .NET vs Witango vs. Oracle

2005-05-20 Thread webdude
Robert and others who care to read this long post, This is funny because I was going to write the same rant myself. I have started it several times and then let it go. Don't get me wrong, I love the product and have used it for many years. But there does seem to be some hiccups. The main proble