Bob, I am in Walla Walla. Maybe we can meet sometime or just chat through email. -Jentzen
________________________________ From: Robert and Gail Hynes <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 9:04 PM Subject: [SEAPY] Web Applications Hi I would love to drop in on a meeting to ask some questions but the Tri-Cities is a bit of a drive to Seattle. I'm looking for some guidance, opinion, direction, or pointers on how or what to use to create a personal web application. I really don't know where to start or the best direction to go. I'm not a programmer and I use mainly MS Office and VBA/VB6 to create macros/tools to help me do my job. The data I use comes from multiple sources - text files, spreadsheets, xml files, and web sites - and is currently consolidated in Excel or Access depending on the information source. I use VBA to massage the data and output selected data into formatted text files for input to other stand alone commercial software packages. The IT groups in the companies I work for have made it extremely difficult to run these small Office Apps by either blocking macros, prohibiting stand alone apps, or generally being a PITA (protected share or net drive locations). I would love to be able to set up an external site I can set up my l data tables, access from them anywhere, and use my calculational tools so I don't have to constantly re-create (read as re-type or re-enter) the input information, and generally protect the data. I would love to start using more open source but have to admit I'm getting too old for too many new tricks (I'm from the Fortran IV and slide rule generation). Kind of getting tired carrying my laptop around and using encyrpted thumbdrives to transfer data. Bob
