[ANN] BookWorm application

[Hakki Dogusan]

Hi,


Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 15:22:23 +0200 Hakki Dogusan <dogusanh at tr.net> wrote:
> 
> HD> I released a simple program written with wxLua, using
> HD> sqlite by wxSQLite3 interface via my lua binding.
> 
>  I've had a look at the program and while it's still a bit too simple to be
> really useful, it would be great to have a nice cross-platform library
> management program, I'd gladly use it (and maybe contribute to it) myself.

Great!

(My actual aim was not to announce my program; I was trying to make
wxLua more popular :) This is my first wxLua application, I'm excited.)


> In fact I even started writing something like this for my personal needs
> but never had time to really finish it. I do have a (somewhat more
> "advanced") database schema for the library database and code (in Perl) to
> import book data from Amazon via their web services, contact me if you'd be
> interested.
> 

I'm interested. Do I need to send a personal message?
I don't know Perl, but I think, I can read it.


>  Also, before starting to write it myself, I had a look at as many
> available programs as I could, I didn't find any which would be:
> 
> - cross-platform

This is my fault! Every part of this "toy" program is cross platform,
except my wxSQLite3 lua binding -lazyness- :(


> - have decent export feature (e.g. export to text or XML to send your
>   library list to someone else; export to HTML to put it on your web site)

I added this one to ToDo list.

> - supported easily adding modules to import data from other places (all
>   programs support amazon.com but I wanted to also import book data from
>   amazon.fr (some programs did support this too) and ozon.ru (no programs
>   did))

To be honest, I don't know this "web thing", but I hope your perl code 
would help me.


> - could understand the concept of "original" and "translated" books which
>   I think is really needed by anyone who has books in English and other
>   language(s)
> 

Does your db schema support this? I think, I can handle this.


> So this could maybe give you some ideas about what your program should do
> to be better than all the others ;-)
> 

Thank you very much.. It really means alot to me.


>  Good luck!
> VZ
> 


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Regards,
Hakki Dogusan