On 12/17/06, Steve Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Some time ago I wrote a member and incident management application for my volunteer bushfire brigade in PHP/mySQL. It works quite well but is browser based which limits it a bit.
I think you can't go wrong with SQLite. If you don't need multiuser access in a networked environment, you'll find SQLite extremely easy to use, with all useful features working just right. All this without the hassle with installing/deploying DB engines like mySQL. As for Python, I find it very easy to use, clean and efficient. I use it for prototyping my projects and I think that even if you decide not to use Python, you'll be able to use your ideas when programming/prototyping in Python. You wrote you want a standalone application, but maybe one day you'll wish to bring your app to a WWW server and by using mod_python you'll be able to reuse the logic from your standalone app. You'll be able to switch platform anytime and benefit from using free software (including OS). Alternative to Python could be Java, though in the beginning you might find it frustrating to do GUI with Swing and maybe something like SWT would be more usable in your case. Peter ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
