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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    re: Re: "Rent a geek" (call for a developer)
From:       Ho Han Keng <hohan0len () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2005-04-18 2:27:40
Message-ID: 1DNLzA-0jb-00 () ?TC)68QPP
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What you need is a database.
Maybe not Relational Database - OODB will do.

>Sorry for the buttons being in German. It surely can be "generalized" 
>for all 
>businesses where there's actually something manufactured. It's not 
>suited for 
>a shop, which is only dealing something (buying goods somewhere and 
>sell it 
>without any modifications...) 
>I needed a software, which is able to help in the production. If you 
>assemble 
>something from single parts, you take some parts and build an 
>"assembly" from 
>it. You use several "assemblies" to build a new assembly and so on .. 
>till 
>you have a product (e.g. a washing machine)... a bit like "nesting"...
>
>A washing machine may have a pump and a drive. Let's say both are using 
>the 
>same subset of screws... The program will visualize it (graphicalliy 
>showing 
>the dependencies like in the software world) using an OSS tool called 
>"graphviz", so it gives you the possibility to "optimize" your 
>product...
>The program will sum up costs and weights for an _infinite_ depth of 
>assemblies.
>
>This is why I needed to do a program like this myself. If you take a 
>look at 
>the available free and commercial apps for small to medium businesses, 
>you'll 
>see, that they all know to manage a stock of articles, but none (repeat 
>_none_) have the ability to build an infinite number of assemblies.. 
>Some of 
>the commercial programs can build a "group" from single items to build 
>kind 
>of a "set" for sales, but that's it (a "nesting" depth of 1..)
>
>This program is for the production, but I want to extend it to the 
>"other 
>side", speak: sales (which includes writing offers and invoices...
>
>Thomas
>
>Am Samstag, 16. April 2005 20:44 schrieb Nathan Toone:
>> Is this only for a bicycle shop, or could it be genericized (if 
>that's a
>> word) to work for *any* small business (invoicing, etc)  I couldn't 
>tell
>> from the screenshots (partly because I only speak english... :)
>>
>> -Nathan
>>
>> On Thursday 14 April 2005 02:50 am, Thomas wrote:
>> > Dear list,
>> >
>> > I've made a prototype of an application with basic (Gambas)... It's
>> > really only a prototype - quick and dirty - but is somehow 
>functional
>> > (well, to be honest, I'm stuck with it and using it atm..)
>> >
>> > I want this app to be a QT/KDE/C++ app!
>> >
>> > As I don't have time to do it right now, I'd like to know, if 
>somebody
>> > may be interested to do it. I'm offering to pay up to 150 Euros per 
>month
>> > depending on the progress.
>> >
>> > If you're interested to do this in your spare time and get some
>> > "euro-bucks" for it, please reply to my private mail.
>> >
>> > Ooops.. I forgot: I uploaded the basic-prototype to kde-apps:
>> > http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=22993
>> >
>> > well, take a look at it, I hope it's something not too boring.
>> >
>> > regards,
>> > Thomas
>> >
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