Ian Bruseker wrote: > On 9/28/05, Tek Budda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>That was actually my first stop...and I did find 3 projects, none of >>which had anything available for download. So essentially..NOTHING! >>I did get one link for DMOZ but I didn't find anythuing that sparked my >>interest. >> >>Oh well..search continues. >> > > I went through the same search 4 years ago (look at that, a guy who > remembers how long he's been married), and like you found one > Windows-based program which looked really great, and interestingly a > few Palm programs. I went it on my own. > > - I registered a domain for the event and set up an rsvp@ email > address, which we printed on all the invitations. (on topic: I > learned how to set up Postfix on a Linux server to get this done. :-) > ) > - I used a good old calendar program to keep track of important > meetings (and there will be meetings: the florist, the caterer, etc). > - Checklists we just typed up. > - We registered at The Bay, which has a really good online tool for > managing your registry. If you don't like The Bay, at least check > with who you register with to see if they offer such a service. > - For the photo gallery I just found a good PHP-based gallery and set > it up and stuck photos in there. There was no Flickr back then, but > you could use that too. > > I would suggest that a lot of this stuff is easy to pull together > (checklists, guest lists, registry item lists) with a little PHP and a > database, but also I thought that back when I first started down the > path to the aisle, and I'll tell you now that you almost certainly > won't have time to be coding a lot from now until the big day. ;-) > > The key is to delegate. For example, for tracking who gave us what > gifts, during the gift opening, the maid of honour just sat there and > wrote a list. Delegate, delegate, delegate! :-)
Thanks for the congrats Ian & all! I guess if you kind find something, create it yourself...right? And so I think thats what I will do. I don't know how advanced it will be. Probably a series of checklists and spreadsheets for now to get things organized. I think I will go this way because I got to thinking. I have a couple open source projects that I started but haven't really done anything with yet. These currently sit under a type of "idea farm/R&D/testing/etc" entity I started as a place to spitball ideas until I could do something with them. I call it 'UNDER_SCORE_LABS'. I actually got the inspiration from the wall of a bathroom stall. Some joker had grafiti'd on the wall the name 'U_N_D_E_R_S_C_O_R_E' and at first I was was thinking, "what an idiot." But then I go to thinking what the underscore actually represents. In the tech world its most common usage (as near as I can tell) is as a connector. Joining one word to another, etc. And so 'UNDER_SCORE_LABS' was born with the idea of connecting technology and people. Why all this babbling? Well...I think I am now going to transform 'UNDER_SCORE_LABS' into a development entity. And the focus will be open source "lifestyle" software. A couple of examples are a wedding planner and an idea that popped up on the list quite a while ago. It was someone looking for FLOSS for vets/pets. I have also been tracking personal information at home...sort of a Home Manager type of idea. So there...I have now went from psychotic rambling to now having three software products to develop as well as 2 other side projects as well. Ok...no more babbling. If anyone has any ideas, suggestions, contributions, etc on how I can do this please let me know. I will likely start the develop process by collecting some examples and making a series or spreadsheets to plan my information then create the databases and such from there. Cameron _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
