[Gambas-user] Problem with the mailing-list

[Benoit Minisini]

On lundi 20 août 2007, Gareth Bult wrote:
> Mmm, Ok ...
>
> * A web server
> * Statistics on server access and downloads
>
> This would be fairly easy as we use one Web front-end which then points of
> to various load-balanced back-end servers depending on the service involved
> and web stats is automatically provided. (although we generally add /
> recommend Google analytics too..)
>
> * Mailing-lists like the one that are on sourceforge.net.
>
> We don't currently do, but it's something we should be able to do fairly
> easily - I'll look into this.
>
> * Gambas installed on the web server, with a mySQL database (or any other
> database server managed by Gambas), and CGI scripts. * A ssh shell access.
>
> Ok, for this we're probably going to have to give you a dedicated box as we
> don't have a box secured for customer shell access. How quickly would you
> want to / be able to use this ?

Not yet. Not before the 2.0 release...

>
> .. Just as an aside;
>
> I think Gambas is unbeatable when it comes to graphical applications, but I
> would never use it to run a web site, other than just to see if it could do
> it. (just because there's so much stuff one would need to code from
> scratch) 

My current paid job is a web application made in Gambas. This application can:

* Define any kind of form with fields, create them, edit them, delete them, 
link any instance of a form to any other instance of any form.

* Link any form to a geographical location displayed in Google Maps. The 
application automatically converts local coordinates to WGS 84 (the american 
one used by Google).

* Attach any file to any instance of a form.

* Generate KML files for Google Earth.

* Search data with a Google-like interface.

* Generate PDF documents from form data, provided you have an OpenOffice 
template.

* Define as many users as you want, with login/password.

* Define recurrent tasks that can send e-mail reports to any user.

* Display nicely on little PDA with any internet connection. The only problem 
being that Internet Explorer has too missing features on Windows CE!

At the moment, it is dedicated to the management of water networks.

It is a 450K cgi script (with debugging symbols, and a 200K java applet not 
used yet, so it should be 250K). It is running inside VMWare. No real 
performance problems at the moment :-)

> You might consider using our application server for the website .. 
> we can do any custom coding you need. (any coding needed would be python
> and it comes with MySQL access) We could have this running for you tomorrow
> ... I'm pretty sure it will do everything you need ... and it's multi-user,
> allows different people / groups to run their own pages, supports forums,
> bug trackers, images etc etc and updating is all "through the web".

Maybe that could replace the web site made by Fabien Bodard, so that Gambas 
users can put and share their code?

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini