[SQL-Ledger-users] Grouchy-Fuck?

[Hal D. <ha...@fa...>]

Geezo bro,

Yo language skills need to cleanup a bit. LOL !!!

I sent private E-mail to Ted asking for a Tar-Ball as well.

--Hal.

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Designer wrote:
> Ted Stockwell wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > In a nutshell my message is this...I have an 80% complete J2EE  version of
> > SQL-Ledger and I will send the code to anyone that requests it.
> > 
> Dude:
> 
> Sure I'll take a tar-ball. I'll be busy for the next 3 weeks on a
> project.
> 
> I have been following the SQL-ledger effort for some time, and had told
> myself
> that inter-operability with JAVA would be a good thing. Don't get me
> wrong, I like
> perl coding quite a lot, but JAVA brings the ability for all sorts of 
> extra functionality.
> 
> I'm not an accountant either, but, lack of knowledge is the only reason
> I accept
> coding projects. Hell if I know quite a bit about something, then, I
> usually
> do not want to code on it(I'm basically a middle aged
> grouchy-fuck.........)
> 
> ER what are your intentions/desires with the 80% intellectual property
> of a PD port............? (basically I do not care, but, I'm curious to
> see
> what you value it at)
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> > A few months ago I started creating a J2EE version of SQL-Ledger.  At the
> > time I was looking for an open-source office application with a web front
> > end for which I would develop a Swing-based front-end.  This was supposed to
> > be a demo project for a company that was going to build a Swing-based
> > front-end for a major accounting ASP.  This demo was supposed to be used to
> > convince the client that a Swing-based front-end would be superior to a
> > web-based front-end.  Anyway, the demo never even got close to happening.
> > 
> > To achieve this my first goal was to rewrite SQL-Ledger to J2EE technology
> > (to encapsulate the accounting login in EJBs and make it possible to have
> > more than one kind of interface to those EJBs, like a web interface, Swing
> > interface, XML interface, etc).
> > 
> > This first goal, of porting SQL-Ledger and its web interface to J2EE is
> > mostly complete, there are still some unfinished sections in the Accounts
> > Receivable and Invoices, other than that it mostly works.
> > 
> > I did this work on my own and hold all the property rights to this code.  I
> > do not have the time, nor the inclination, to finish this project so I am
> > going to give it to anyone that would like it in the hope that someone will
> > be motivated to compete it.  Initially I am willing to help people get
> > acquainted with the code.
> > 
> > I know nothing about accounting really.  I created the EJB components by
> > mechanically translating SQL-Ledger's PERL code to Java, so I'm sure there
> > are bugs :-).
> > 
> > Anyway, send me your e-mail address, or the address of somewhere where I can
> > park this code, and I will send it to you.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > ted stockwell