Nice work Derek! did you do the site layout yourself? i wish i were that good with layouts my projects certainly need a face lift! Can i get a login account i would like to see what your app looks like.
Thanks Mayowa, its nice to hear that. You bet, the layout and such is all me. I’d be honoured for you and anyone else reading this to take a look. I’ve set the user and pass both to “demo”. login at BambooINVOICE.
Any and all feedback is wanted and appreciated! My email is listed on the homepage after you login. Its my goal to finish this project off and then maintain it as an open source invoicing application.
Please keep in mind that its a developing application. There are still missing functionalities and a few rough edges here and there.
Derek
edit: Feel free to enter or delete any data you want on the system. Just keep it clean ok
Nice work Derek! did you do the site layout yourself? i wish i were that good with layouts my projects certainly need a face lift! Can i get a login account i would like to see what your app looks like.
Thanks Mayowa, its nice to hear that. You bet, the layout and such is all me. I’d be honoured for you and anyone else reading this to take a look. I’ve set the user and pass both to “demo”. login at BambooINVOICE.
Any and all feedback is wanted and appreciated! My email is listed on the homepage after you login. Its my goal to finish this project off and then maintain it as an open source invoicing application.
Please keep in mind that its a developing application. There are still missing functionalities and a few rough edges here and there.
Derek
edit: Feel free to enter or delete any data you want on the system. Just keep it clean ok
Yes, very nice work. I logged in and played with it a little. Let us know when it is done!
I’m working on a guild management tool for World of Warcraft, you can see it growing at http://www.fray-gm.com and if u are a wow gamer and want to help just have a look at the forums http://forum.fray-gm.com
Fray
Might want to optimize that header image. It’s 131k.
After a lot of debating I’m now creating a hardware management and tracking database app (“Carbon Hardware”) designed for schools and businesses with a large IT inventory. Being able to track toner stock was the base idea of the original project, but it’s now grown quite a lot and will include loaning, moving and inventory of equipment.
Craig, there is already something like that available that has done it very well. In fact, it is the coolest app I have ever seen. I am excited to be using it. The craziest thing is the app is built in Smalltalk using the Seaside framework. Furthermore, one of the developers for the app is also the creator of Seaside. Smalltalk is a very cool programming language that I fully intend on learning over the summer right along with my continuing use of CI and PHP.
Oh yeah, the app is called dabbledb, you really should give it a try. There is a free trial version, and if nothing else it may give you ideas for your own app. Interestingly the developer said he felt that Smalltalk is the only language that could handle such an application (he said that on one of the videos you can download from the site.) I have heard this from more than one place.
By the way, that second like is cool too. Opencroquet is a platform (also runs off Smalltalk) to create virtual worlds. The future is clear, if you want to start building the next generation of the web. Start building stuff on platforms such as Opencroquet and Secondlife. When the revolution arrives, you will already be an expert.
Thanks for the link, manofsteel. But there are reasons why I’m using something like CI and not Smalltalk or whatever. While I’m developing my app customed to the place where I work it will generally fit into others just as well, for anyone running WAMP/LAMP platform. Dabbledb seems to be a general MSAccess-for-the-web type of webapp.
Well the cool thing about Dabbledb is that you can create an app on the fly. It becomes anything you want. I have never used MS Access, but I have used databases of course. I believe that all applications are really a database, logic, and the gui. With Dabblebd I am able to create the database, much of the logic flow, and the GUI is already there. So you then have insta apps. I hate being constrained by the limitations of other web-based apps, and Dabblebd allows me to remove those constraints. So the app then becomes the mother of all apps.
I am not saying you should use Smalltalk, but it does look very promising as a language. There are reasons that I am using PHP and CI also, and I will not put that down. Also, I am studying Computer Science (first semester, so I am not much of a programmer yet) so I guess I need to learn as many languages as I can anyways. It will make me a better programmer.
I checked out your app by the way, and it looks great.
I understand what dabbledb should be used for, but once you want more than the norm CRUD you need code your own stuff. Use the best tool for the job, I say
I do code, but there are not enough hours in the day to make all the apps I would like to use. The last thing a NASCAR technician wants to do after a day of working on race cars is come home and work on the family car.
I want to create apps that I think will make a difference. As a college student, I have the luxury of doing this rather than working for someone else (at least for right now.) I don’t want to screw with building apps for oversaturated spaces. Many of these spaces have apps that still don’t do what I need them to do despite having so many available options.
For myself, Dabbledb has already established itself as essential for many tasks. I can evolve a data model much faster than I could any other way. It is not for everyone, but we all think differently. One person can look at an app and think “what the hell do I do with this?” and another person could look at the same app and think it is the second coming of the messiah. Ok, maybe I don’t feel THAT strongly about it, but it is pretty dang cool. It works exactly like my brain does, which is crazy.
Craig! Absolutely stellar, and looks sweet! Ironically, I used the silk iconset for BambooInvoice as well, but I’m slowly building my own to replace them. Your app Looks great! As you make milestone improvements, if you’re still willing to keep the demo open, post back into this thread so we can all marvel
Yeah I love that icon set, dallard, the best I’ve seen - it has so many.. I can’t do graphics to save my life (I even used http://lab.rails2u.com/bgmaker/ to create the gradient ). I’ll certainly keep the demo open. I edit the live version on that domain during the day at work, if and when I get the chance, and I re-upload to it after I do work at home, so, all changes are the latest.
Code Igniter is the framework I use for this project. In fact this is the first time I use a framework to help me develop faster. And it sure does speed thing up ! I’m still having some problem with the logik of my architecture, for exemple I think some of my View files do too much job and some Controller files too little. And I didn’t use any Model at all. So maybe I’ll do some heavy factorisation when I’ll get it completely, but for now I’m please with what I got.
Any comments about the site (and reference for my problem) will be appreciated. Oh, and I would like to see more project done with Code Igniter !
