On Monday 25 September 2006 18:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > how is the RoR appointment system different from oscar 's ? Oscar is > lacking a email/online weak authentication ( emailed passwords) > registration/lost password regeneration service, but that wouldn't be hard > to do ( it could be done manually by the receptionists, who issue a > password to patients at the front desk , anyway). Oscar's appointment > system has also been adapted to gnumed's demographics.
Not by much. OSCAR is actually most impressive; very slick UI for a web app, and was way ahead of it's time. At the time when I visited David Chan it was still dependent on MSIE, so I didn't look any closer to the code base. Then one of their lead developers (Jay Gallagher) visited me for a week and we developed several units for drugref together in a productive frenzy which they are using currently (I think) but we didn't have enough time to delve deeper into OSCAR - and after that, I lost track. But by that time, OSCAR was already working on Mozilla too, and guys from Brazil had ported it to Postgres However, OSCARs implementation with Tomcat and Java makes it (at least to me) needlessly difficult to install and maintain. Reading Java code gives me a headache because it is needlessly difficult and verbose - Java lacks any elegance and even the most talented programmer's code (and I would rate Jay as extremely talented) will look clumsy compared to code in a true 4G language. Anything you want to fix or extend or add will take at least ten times as long as if you would do it in an agile language - so why bother? You can predict that the day will come soon when you have lost the running start advantage. I admire many of the design decisions in OSCAR and will use much of it as a template, but I want the system implemented in the most agile and future proof language I can currently think of. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
