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Java project anyone?
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:30 pm
by HaleDN
tomw wrote:...Emergency Prepardness (help people track food storage, help organize service, etc)...
With recent announcements regarding preparedness,
http://www.providentliving.org/content/ ... -1,00.html , the providentliving.org site is bound to get more interest. (But the Food Storage Calculator IMHO is terribly inadeqate for long term storage, and ripe for replacement!) We could build a quick app to replace this, and provide the basis for other projects which want to leverage the ICS Java Stack. (Of course, this assumes that the Stack is available for use on servers not hosted by the Church)
Interesting
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 4:45 pm
by HansenBK
Tom, thoughts?
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:55 pm
by WelchTC
bh5k wrote:Tom, thoughts?
Love the idea but we have some internal issues that need to be resolved before the current stack could be used. Does it require the stack?
tom
sigh
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 5:59 pm
by HansenBK
tomw wrote:Love the idea but we have some internal issues that need to be resolved before the current stack could be used. Does it require the stack?
tom
<sigh/>
It doesn't have to...just hoping it would.
calculator
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 6:07 pm
by HansenBK
haledn wrote:With recent announcements regarding preparedness,
http://www.providentliving.org/content/ ... -1,00.html , the providentliving.org site is bound to get more interest. (But the Food Storage Calculator IMHO is terribly inadeqate for long term storage, and ripe for replacement!) We could build a quick app to replace this, and provide the basis for other projects which want to leverage the ICS Java Stack. (Of course, this assumes that the Stack is available for use on servers not hosted by the Church)
So what do you mean by the calculator? The pamphlet?
Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2007 7:33 pm
by mkmurray
bh5k wrote:So what do you mean by the calculator? The pamphlet?
No, I think he means the calculator located just a few clicks away. Here is a direct link:
http://www.providentliving.org/content/ ... -1,00.html
calculator
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:22 am
by HansenBK
Sweet! So what are some of the requirements that we would like it to do?
Food storage calculators
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 11:35 am
by HaleDN
The reason that I proposed doing a food storage calculator was to provide some "meaningful" functionality to LDS users (not just a pet store), but at the same time demonstrate how an integrated Stack app would work. If the Stack isn't available, then perhaps this isn't a good candidate.
For someone interested in where I was going with this, here a few examples:
One page, JavaScript example:
http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html
Commercial desktop app (demo available)
http://www.foodstorageplanner.com/
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:16 pm
by nbflint
Providentliving.org used to have a food storage more like the one at
http://www.thefoodguys.com/foodcalc.html
You'd put in the number and ages of the people in your family and and how long you wanted your storage to last (1 year, 1 month) and you'd get a customized report telling you how much you should try to save for that time period. What ever happened to that? The one on there now IS Grossly inadequate!
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:34 pm
by HaleDN
nimebe wrote: What ever happened to that?
I think that they are moving to simplify their recommendations regarding food storage. I expect to hear an announcement regarding this in the next few weeks (if not during Conference). But making less specific recommendations means that people are going to need more flexible tools to assist them in this process.