Hi again guys, Thanks for the warm welcome! (OOS: I have a feeling germans will be very extraordinary hosts/adversaries for the brazilians in the world cup)
Let's take small steps, from my point of view the GNUMed seems to have been put together using what in SE is called 'rapid prototyping'. 1) You've established the wishlist 2) Gathered some readily available technology to fit it 3) Implement something with it 4) Check what went wrong and go back to 1 I feel inclined to move it to more professional approaches like Aspect/Object Oriented Design (!= oo programing). That has more to do with the way you think before you do it, got it? The ER diagram should have been ready before the SQL, it seems to me you guys took a mixed top-down/bottom-up approach and may get tangled with the details. The developer manual is focused mostly on describing what you have already done, not HOW it should be done. The DB is growing a lot and getting more complex and confusing right? I agree with normalizations and performance minded approaches for non open source design. I think clarity and organizing should be taken it account too. We'll keep in touch Daniel _______________________________________________ Gnumed-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumed-devel
