Thanks Alex!
Dave
Alex Tweedly wrote:
Dave LeYanna wrote:
Alex;
I was searching the archives looking for some information about a PIM
lib or stack that may be available and noticed your post about
syncronization issues you were looking at. Did you ever finish that
addressbook app? would you be interested in sharing or selling it?
No, I didn't "finish" it. But I (and the rest of my family) now use it
as *our* shared addressbook. It's a long way from finished - somewhere
I have a long list of things that need done before I can "release" it,
but it already does enough to be more useful (in my unusual
circumstances) than any other addressbook I've ever found, so I'm
using it happily and the other improvements are low priority. The
initial posting about it received only one (slightly discouraging)
reply, so I never did get around to posting the stack anywhere.
We need to develop a PIM and an address book is part of such an
application.
We probally will be using PostgreSQL on a server with SQLLite on the
desktops that will need to sync once connected to the network or via
the internet.
The synchronization scheme I have may be overkill - multiple people
independently and asynchronously (off-line) editing a fully shared
addressbook or calendar, and may also be inadequate in other ways (it
is a single shared addressbook/calendar, with no mechanism to have
separate views or to sync or co-ordinate between such multiple data
sets). So I'd recommend a careful look over the "synchronization
spec" part of my earlier email to make sure it is suitable for you.
I have currently only implemented the "shared file system" sync method
- though I did use the basic technique in another app where I
implemented the server/client method (not in Rev), so I feel
comfortable that it works and saves bandwidth. It should extend easily
to PostgreSQL - an initial query to retrieve the control fields for
all records, with subsequent retrieves of the rest of the data only
for the updated records.
I'll clean it up, remove my own data :-) and put the stack up on
revonline tonight. The stack carries many footprints of the fact that
I initially intended to make it a single "PIM" - and later changed my
mind and did separate addressbook and calendar apps. For instance,
right now there is a "tabbed notebook" with only the single tab for
addressbook.
btw - I'm not interested in selling it, but if you find it useful and
use any (enough) ideas from it (esp the sync scheme which afaik is
novel), I'd appreciate a mention in the credits/footnotes.
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