<54e2f3c80809031244l5608c1a1m919d1a5ee9433e2(a)mail.gmail.com> <48BF0268.6050901(a)ihug.co.nz> <54e2f3c80809031711q59413b35ifc760caec71ad3d8(a)mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <a0538476d6a3d944b6a3caefbe895267(a)ihug.co.nz> X-Sender: butting(a)ihug.co.nz SenderIP: 124.157.75.134 Received: from [124.157.75.134] (halberg.global-pix.com) (login=YnV0dGluZ0BpaHVnLmNvLm56) by webmail.vodafone.co.nz (running Vodafone Webmail/0.1) via TCP with HTTP/1.1 id <a0538476d6a3d944b6a3caefbe895267(a)ihug.co.nz>; 04 Sep 2008 13:36:24 +1200 User-Agent: Vodafone Webmail/0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Bruce wrote:
I'm going to have to give up on SQL/business back/end applications, aren't I? I'm frustrated by that: those are applications we should be busting ourselves to publicise. If someone wants to fake up a PostgreSQL database for the AnachroTech website, with products and orders and inventory and web traffic summaries, and screenshots of PGAdminIII.... *DEAD* *USEFUL*.
anyone?
You're going to have to give up I think. There's just no way to make an SQL database or business back-end look even remotely appealing.
that's what *graphs* are for -- raw numeric data's probably the second-easiest stuff there is to present attractively (behind good photographs) http://images.google.com/images?q=3d%20graph and it's a lot easier to create than text copy. (I'll be writing a descriptive piece on penguins for Writer tonight. something about how they refuse to pay unnecessary software licensing fees, probably. but, and this is the hard bit, *the words have to be written*.)
I think our SFD will just have to be more of a desktop thing, perhaps we can broaden it a little more next year.
welllll, this is why I'm keen to get a shot of Symphony's Honking Big Wall Of Pixels in there. (for the rest of the list: the opening tag "because software should give you the freedom to" will notionally close with the very last tag at the bottom reading "replace your desktop with a supercomputer". like I said to Bruce and Jamie, we've got the software, the hardware's up to them!) bryce