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> James wrote: > > Tom Brough wrote: > >> People talking about county shows got me thinking. Are we missing a > >> trick here ? We are based in a traditional farming area, yet I don't > >> know of any free software project that deals with farm stock / breading > >> control software. > >> > >> A quick google has revealed nothing .... or swamped me with (stocks and > >> shares) programs. [..] Is there a such a program out there ? > > Well I haven't found one yet. I keep the stock records on the farm where I > > live using an Open Office spreadsheet. I keep promising to greate a database, > > but it hasn't happened yet > Now let me see - I'm a programmer and I've come down here to do some > farming and its my intention to write FLOSS things (over the calm of > winter) so perhaps I could start gathering info on what is required here! > I would intend this to be a web based application - i.e. a web 'client' > front end and a mono (.NET) /database server backend. > James contact me off list with your ideas please? I'm interested in a similar project - my father in law is a commerical grower (we also sell plants online <plug>http://www.pukkaplants.co.uk</plug>) and I've long been thinking of writing something to manage stock, especially if I can grab a csv out of it and update the website catalogue automatically. Commerical greenhouses also have the problem of limited space, and the need to plan stock well in advance to allow 3 to 6 months growing, repotting, etc of thousands of plants that need to be re-arranged frequently to cope with new stock, stock being shipped out or being moved from plugs to 6cm pots to 9 cm pots to 1 or 2 litre pots. Anyway - stock management sounds interesting and I'd like to help, but would prefer to use Perl over C# although learning the latter could be helpful so if there is a compelling case for using it (for the web I'd choose perl, but for a desktop app I'd choose .net/mono ) Cheers, A. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html