AquAdvisor - software to help you stock your tanks!
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yhbae, you said that you and your friend possibly plan on coding it for web, what kind of coding are you planning on doing? If needed, I could give a little PHP help.. it has been a while, but I think I'd be able to offer some assistance.
Since the app is .Net I'm assuming they will use .Net.
I've been doing .Net professionally for about six years now (profesional programmer for 12). OP if you need a hand I might be able to help out. It shouldn't be hard to port your Windows code to a web app if you encapsulated most of the logic outside of the main form. Since I first saw your app I thought it should be a web based app since it would be more easily used by the forum users.
Actually his expertise is in straight PHP. Actually his main knowledge is in J2EE but also knows some PHP so he is not an expert in PHP either. And agreed, I should have started as a web app but once again, last time I touched web app was even longer time ago, and that was Pearl using CGI...
I've been looking at PHP and the concept seems rather similar to embedded Pearl and the syntax looks familiar. I am tempted to go with PHP at this point, if not for any other reason than to learn PHP through this. C# and now PHP. Haha.
Oh, I actually started off with this goal in mind and even organized files this way. But I got lazy and didn't quite encapsulate all the way so I have to do some code factorizing and re-organizing to do. My bad.
If it's an opportunity to learn something new (PHP) I'd jump on it. It isn't every day that you have a real app to code in a new language. When learning a new langauge the advice is always "code something you need" but often you don't really need anything so that doesn't happen. Since you have the app (and even a working one) porting to PHP could be a good learning experience.
I would recommend moving the fish "database" into an XML file. It could be shared between the .Net desktop app and web app and as an added bonus people could easily modify their local copies to add new fish, change parameters they don't agree with you on, etc.
I would recommend moving the fish "database" into an XML file. It could be shared between the .Net desktop app and web app and as an added bonus people could easily modify their local copies to add new fish, change parameters they don't agree with you on, etc.
Sounds like a good idea. I will definitely look into this. Thanks for the suggestion.
mellowvision
Seafood Lover
haha yeah only I wish...
The web version is coming alone nicely though - may be able to see something simple with small subset of features by this weekend but using the same fish DB.
Oops I missed your post. Yes we are now doing it in PHP so it could be useful. We are going to release couple of versions first and see how this goes. I'm pretty sure it will be easier to share work in PHP environment than it is with C# using Visual Studio.
