Re: [NF] Dabo for mobile apps? (was Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-16 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:25 PM, MB Software Solutions wrote: Ed -- can Dabo do Palm apps and/or cell phone apps? I've got a need where field installers are going to need to send a signal to the web database to signal when jobs (fencing/railing) are installed, and I'd love to have this on some

Re: [NF] Dabo for mobile apps? (was Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-16 Thread Steve Ellenoff
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but couldn't you just have them hit the website to trigger that jobs are done? Every mobile device already has support for browsing the web so there's little need for you to write a custom mobile client app for them. I recall seeing ways to create the web pages

Re: [NF] Dabo for mobile apps? (was Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-16 Thread MB Software Solutions
Steve Ellenoff wrote: Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but couldn't you just have them hit the website to trigger that jobs are done? Every mobile device already has support for browsing the web so there's little need for you to write a custom mobile client app for them. I recall seeing

Re: [NF] Dabo for mobile apps? (was Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-16 Thread Steve Ellenoff
Well, you could do something like that, or you could have a page special for them where they enter in job # and/or other related items. It really depends on your situation, but my point was just to think of using the web interface as the way to communicate back to your database, rather than

RE: [NF] Dabo for mobile apps? (was Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-15 Thread john harvey
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:26 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Dabo for mobile apps? (was Re: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...) Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote: P.S. I'd argue that python would be your best bet. xplat