Strap says it all,

For a few years now I've been stalling on development projects in and around the VAG world.

I'm now ready to scratch some serious itches.

Recently(4+years) I've been working in the land of Ruby on Rails, this forum is PHP, so I'm immediately at odds with it.

I want to build some cool stuff but I'm not doing it in php, heck some I'm not even using mysql, looking at mongo, couchdb, riak, out ad's code is ruby based out of sqlite3, it works in a fashion!

I'm an eternal tinker and technologist, I love trying things and seeing what works. Reality check I'm now more ideas gathering dust... life has to change around me.

The forums are the forums, having tinkered for years with previous software this is staying vanilla, everything will hook into it or stand alone.

By cool I mean basically anything we can think of to do something / help people whatever.

If you're interested get in touch. I cannot pay you(yet), but I can offer you a chance to try stuff out to a good audience, well you're one of them

I have absolutely no idea at all what you are talking about Colin.

Are you referring to new Forum Software?

Nope just stuff to add to it

As always I'm keen on this. As being on the infrastructure side of this for my day job brings be in to touch with all sorts of weird and wonderful web dev output. If I can offer any help I will.

I'm a C# (.net 3.5 +) and MS SQL developer by trade, normally web developments but I have been known to do some windows development.

I have done some PHP, ROR, and other technologies in my time.

I'm always interested in getting my hands dirty with cool new stuff which benefits my fellow men (and women), but never have the idea's.

If needs be Colin - I'm here . Isn't Alex helping still?

This is interesting. Just thought I'd drop a line as well to show my interest.

I'm a LAMP developer by trade - been working with PHP and related tech for about 3-4 years now and completed some pretty big projects in that time. I mainly work with MVC frameworks - mainly CodeIgniter just because of the amount of time it saves and it's large community. So naturally I'm pretty able in associated techs such as jQuery/JS, HTML5, CSS3 etc as well.

I'm also at University studying Computer Games Development so spend my educational life working in C++ and Python :p

Additionally I originally started in infrastructure so I know a fair bit more than your average web dev about networking, Windows server (AD, etc) and Linux servers.

But I'm always here if you want to start something or ever need a hand

By all means have a look at my CV: http://www.george-edwards.co.uk

Hi,

I write and deploy a fairly large application written in PHP using the Zend framework.

The application is deployed on Amazon EC2, taking advantage of a lot of their services (SQS Queuing, CloudFront CDN, SimpleDB attribute store, S3 object storage, CloudWatch for monitoring and auto-scaling etc etc). If those skills could be of any use to you, just give me a shout.

Thanks,

Andrew

Hi,

How is this for an idea, (and if you know if this has already been implemented then point me in that direction).

You know these QR Code readers that you get on most phones (I have only seen the Android ones), I have never found an app that can do this simple but very powerful task.

Using the camera for the phone to read the QR Code (one that has a embedded URL) I would like the phone to then instruct/control a web app running on a tethered laptop. Effectively only using the phone to read the code and convert to a URL and send the URL to the Web app.

It needs to be a laptop as it will be running a local instance of ORACLE and I doubt if even the new Windows pads are up to the task.

I would program something myself , and I may yet still have to, but I do not have time to go through the learning curve for Android being up to by eyes in PERL, Oracle, HTML, CSS and Javascript.

If any of you guys have any suggestions for short cuts then it would be much appreciated.

I know this is a car forum, but you never know.... :think:

Smiffy

I have spiked out a QR app, done some aspects of the above except for the phone tethered to machine.

Leaning on some of the airplay, airscreen types of approach, mobile app(can't see a way without something native), registered to open from text/url. So in using the scanner, e.g. google goggles et al. you are prompted for an application to open the url with. This would be your phone app, that won't open the qr url, but your laptop url with param?url=abc.

Where upon the user will get the desired response.

Not sure of the output required or if it's just gathering metric/data into the oracle instance. I don't think without tethering and a lot of learning you could directly manipulate your local laptop environment, certainly not from a http call. Well you could make it do something, call a local script to do abc, but it's a big old security hole.

HTH.

Not sure of the output required or if it's just gathering metric/data into the oracle instance.

My web app is essentially a query engine on a very large database (millions) worth of individual entities. Each of these entities can be searched for by location or type or even individually.

As you can imagine, every transaction in my app is URL based. The users use the front end to configure queries, the middle tier (PERL in this case) then fetches the entities, whether it be thousands at a time or individually, from ORACLE and then presents the results as an HTML table to the user. I suppose you can also categorise my app as a warehouse manager. So just like ARGOS or any other shop, I would like to scan an item or an area via a QR Code so that my web app can be controlled by scanning the physical entities, and the user can then see much more detailed info for the individual, child , or contained entities.

I know that QR Codes are the answer, but I have not found a way to make a laptop (the only thing currently powerfull enough run ORACLE and be taken to the field) to read a code.

So tethering the phone to the laptop is the only other alternative I can think of. Unfortunately it seems that the phone app has not been written yet.

I am about to dust off my JAVA books and get stuck into Android so I will let you know how I get on.

Raymond.

Edited 15 February, 201313 yr by smiffy64