Thanks everyone for your input ... I'm sticking to a web app for the foreseeable future.
Tim, this is a great time to be an Urban Farmer or a Facilitator for Urban Farming ... everywhere people are waking up to better food quality as a fundamental need and local involvement as the foundational solution. Good Luck in your efforts, too ! Farmer Joe On Thursday, June 9, 2016 at 4:45:03 AM UTC-7, Tim Stewart wrote: > > Hi Joe, that strikes a chord, I've also been thinking about about how to > improve the connection between local farm producers and consumers, it's a > fascinating area and could help address the increasingly unsustainable food > production industry. I wish you the best of luck and will follow your > progress. > > I understand what you're saying about fear of vendor specific dependencies > - Progressive Web Apps is based on W3C standards and does have support > outside Google, but it is an early stage technology which is still > developing. > > Have you ever published to any of the App Stores? It is an involved and > sometimes painful experience (I'm looking at you, Apple!) and one which > absolutely ties you into various dependencies. The web has evolved - and > with projects like Elm continues to evolve - into more and more of a > viable, indeed better, alternative to native app development. > > On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 6:12:20 PM UTC+10, Joe Terry wrote: >> >> I'm going to connect local neighborhood farmers in every community with >> consumers in their neighborhoods ... >> >> 1) They can't find each other conveniently >> 2) Neighborhood farmers need training, guidance, maybe even tooling for >> technologies such as Aquaponics >> 3) Neighborhood locally-grown consumers want ... choice ... service ... >> deliveries ... special crops ... Bok Choy for some communities ... Collard >> Greens for others ... and quantity ... >> 4) Many neighborhood farmers together make a market >> >> "Locally grown produce and other foods such as honey ... in every >> Locality" >> >> This can happen ... everywhere ... but they need a platform and that's >> what I want to provide ... but the technology can be complex ... so ... >> >> 1) I'm sticking to the web ... this is a web app ... native apps to >> follow ... if ever >> 2) Organic development and micro-staffing ... one guy to start >> >> http://www.EarthCommunityFarms.com >> >> "Progressive Web Apps" sounds like a rabbit hole of Google dependencies >> ... I think I'll bet on an ELM bridge to React Native ... and I'm not in a >> hurry for that. >> >> Joet >> >> >> On Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 6:06:43 PM UTC-7, Tim Stewart wrote: >>> >>> Hi Joe, maybe not the end of your career but a new beginning? Interested >>> to hear what you're doing in agriculture, I'm getting into being a >>> small-scale farmer myself. >>> >>> Not sure about Elm Native - there have been some attempts to combine it >>> with React Native in the past but I'm not aware of anything very active. On >>> the other hand, you may want to check out Progressive Web Apps being >>> promoted by Google, looking good on Android at least and should play well >>> with Elm. >>> >>> On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 9:05:04 AM UTC+10, Joe Terry wrote: >>>> >>>> I programmed in LISP in the early 1990's and never thought I would get >>>> back to those days. I'm now excited about becoming an ELM programmer. >>>> >>>> I'm creating my own platform in the agriculture space written >>>> completely in ELM. >>>> >>>> We _had_ planned to create Android and IOS apps in React Native. >>>> >>>> Will there be an ... ELM Native ... Andoid, IOS ... and Desktop ? >>>> >>>> Joe Terry >>>> The Software Sculptor >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Elm Discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
