On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Gary Jeurink <[email protected]> wrote: > I am handicapped and somewhat homebound. I have learned what programming > skills I have by reading the books you guys write. I am trying to learn > php/mysql right now and have gotten stuck in the same area from two separate > books. Uploading/files.
I've done a little work with php and mysql, but I haven't had to code a routine to allow upload. Let's not muddle the discussion threads too much. You might want to start a new thread with that topic, since it's pretty far off the original. > The open source thing sounds like something I'd like to learn more about. With Open Source, some developer somewhere creates an application to solve his or her problem, and releases it under an Open Source license for others to use, modify and pass on. Like the story of Stone Soup, if each person contributes a little, the end result can be pretty powerful. Or it can fall to pieces. Quality varies all over the place, kind of like software from Microsoft ;) The challenge can be finding the software you're looking for and determining if it is sufficiently complete to meet your needs or if you have the skills to add enough to it so that it does. For example, a few months ago, a friend was looking for a software solution to track parents and children in a sports league and their dues or equivalent volunteer labor. Since every city and town has kids' sports leagues, I was sure he could find something out there to solve his problem. But the rules were specific enough that he ended up writing his own solution, probably just tracking it in a spreadsheet or database table. A Google search for "Open Source gymnastics scoring program" first brings up a Belgium-based Java solution whose license doesn't look very open to me: free to use, but don't touch the code. Too bad. The second's just a software download site with nothing useful. So, a search might take a while. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
