[Powerjournal-devel] Re: [Fwd: Re: Powerjournal]

[Trenton D. A. <tre...@te...>]

Thanks Chris.  I'm going to be setting up my Linux server/workstation 
soon (my other one died).  Until then I'm not going to bother with any 
development.  I don't want to bother installing CVS, or SVN on my 
windows box. :)


Chris Arrowood wrote:

> As requested, here is a zip of the latest.  If you decide to do any 
> serious work on it, we really should get you tied in to the SVN 
> repository (or I can migrate it to the SourceForge CVS).
> 
> You should have no trouble understanding the code.  My programming 
> philosophy is to keep it simple at first and grow it over time.
> 
> (Since this email contained a zip, I did not send it to the list, but 
> replies should go there.)
> 
> I find it a little ironic that we both have other SF projects involving 
> backups.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplebashbu/
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> Chris
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Powerjournal
> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 21:16:50 -0600
> From: Trenton D. Adams <tre...@te...>
> To: Chris Arrowood <sta...@cy...>
> CC: tr...@te...
> References: <E1B...@sc...> 
> <412...@cy...>
> 
> <snip>
> 
> Chris Arrowood wrote:
> 
>> Trenton D.Adams wrote:
>>
>>> That's a really good start for a journaling program.  I was
>>> hoping to find a good place to start for this.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks; A start is what I consider it.  I  was burned out by the time 
>> I finished it and never made it as feature rich as I envisioned it.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it looks like you put a lot of work into it.  That's what I didn't
> want to do! :)  I know what it takes starting a new program, it's a
> whole lot of work.  I prefer maintenance programming if possible.  Of
> course it really sucks to do maintenance programming on a lowsy piece of
> software too though.
> 
> I'm working on a relatively large java program at work that was written
> by lowsy programmers.  They have no concept of object oriented design.
> 
>>
>>> I'm thinking of adding some more features to it.  For
>>> instance, I would like to keep the date field, but I also
>>> want to have an entry date field.  So, if I don't record a
>>> journal entry the very day that I need to, then I at least
>>> know what date it was for.
>>> I was also thinking of adding a topic list feature.  Each
>>> entry should be able to be associated with mutliple topics.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sounds like good ideas.
>>
>>> I also want to add search capabilities as well.
> 
> 
> I think, to start anyhow, I'll just use RDBM style searching.  That way
> it's up and running right away.  Then I can get into BTREE stuff
> afterwards.  I'll probably do the BTREE stuff in C and use JNI to tie
> them together.  That's what I did with my Java backup program to be able
> to backup permissions.  It's a really sucky backup program though, not
> very well designed.  It was one of my first java GUI programs which I
> wanted to get running right away. :)  You can check it out on
> sourceforge if you like.  It's called Mocha Backup.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> I know what you mean about having the time...  The latest source code 
>> contains a few minor bug fixes.  I'll make it available in a SVN 
>> repository for you or I can provide a zip if you'd rather. If you want 
>> to work directly out of the SVN tree, I will provide you with a 
>> user/pass.
> 
> 
> A ZIP for now would be good, I want to get my feet wet first.
> 
> <snip>
> 
>