Shameless plug? Are you a gnucash developer? We use Quickbooks to manage
finances at my computer shop - this includes managing banking, payroll,
taxes, invoicing, recievables and payables, estimates and inventory.
You're probably right about MySQL, but since this is a small shop and
I'm already familiar with MySQL that didn't seem to be a problem. I
could always use Postgres with it's finer resolution of locking policies
if it becomes a problem. Last I checked, gnucash was basically a Quicken
clone, not a Quickbooks clone. I didn't see anything in GnuCash that
could do what I need. If you know differently, please let me know. Why
duplicate efforts? I am interested in writing though software. If XUL
can't handle external datasources well (I know that Javascript is used
for file I/O - but I don't know of any Javascript/SQL interfaces),
perhaps then I'll just do Gnome and PHP based on a central, portable
library. That may still be a challenge. Both PHP and Gnome handle data
and databases very differently and I haven't written anything in Gnome
that could make use of an Apache module. Hmm, I think PHP can be used to
execute system commands, maybe I'll explore that. I could do XML, but I
prefer the power of a database application instead. Hey, there's an
effort to bind Gnome to PHP, maybe there's something in that. :) I've
actually played with the Perl binding...
Mike
Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Warning shameless plug.
>
>
>>Been to the mentioned sites. Good references. I've also been through the
>>xulnote tutorial. I'd like to write a financial application in XUL to
>>replace our Quickbooks (the only reason one of our computers is still
>>infested with MSWindows), so I need to learn how to interface XUL with
>>
>
> If you want quickbooks for GNU\Linux I urge you too look at GNUCash
> (http://www.gnucash.org)
>
>
>>MySQL and to learn more about server/client relationships from the XUL
>>viewpoint. It'd be nice to have the XUL app on a central server rather
>>than as components of the client, but it's not critical - we have a
>>small network with only a few computers. I'll also have a PHP equivalent
>>
>
> Originally we were going to write financials in XUL. The problem is they
> at the time and probably still do not handle external data very well.
> They require basically XML datasources. This is what prompted us to write
> data aware XML markup for XPlatform forms with GNU Etnerprise. You might
> wisht to check it out http://www.gnue.org. All forms are done in XML like
> XUL, but you need to know no SQL or databinding to make data ware it
> 'automagically' binds for you.
>
> BTW: Unless MySQL has fixed table level locking you DO NOT want to use
> MySQL for financial applications. Table level locking will KILL you even
> in a small environment. As any time your run complex reports you in
> essence will be locking out your data entry team. Performance will be
> horrible unless you do some replication scheme to make a reporting
> 'server'.
>
>
>>too, and maybe a Gnome equivalent as soon as development on Gnome_DB
>>matures... The database will be the same, so it doesn't matter what
>>client I write. I need to brainstorm on ways to abstract the database
>>functions so that I an use one library for all platforms - Gnome, PHP or
>>
>
> GNU Enterprise does this. Currently we support Oracle, DB2, PostGRES and
> MySQL.
>
>
>>XUL. It'd be nice to have the core application completely independent of
>>the interface so that any interface can be written to it.
>>
>
> This is concept of GNU Enterprise as well. One form source will work on
> Win32, Motif, GTK, Mac and soon WWW with no ifdefs etc..
>
> BTW: Mozilla's XUL went down hill around M10 when Mike Shaver departed and
> Dave Hyatt seemed to be less involved with data binding. Most
> unfortunate. Plus the code was still so impossible to compile much less
> code against at that time, we decided XUL wasnt best for us.
>
> In its defense its still cool if you are wanting to just do XML data
> sources.
>
> Derek
>
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