[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking

[Matthew McSpadden]

I am quite familiar with PHP (a language frequently used to access 
MYSQL) and MYSQL. I also have several years of experience in web 
development. As you can probably see from the tux4kids websites (which I 
worked on) I can code, but my designing leaves something lacking. If 
someone had a design i'd be more than happy to contribute to making the 
forms or whatever is needed into something accessible through a browser.

Matt


uwe wrote:
> Jordan and all
> 
> my feeling would be that tuxtype and a progress measuring tool should
> come with a similar design. would you agree?
> 
> to the other point: I think a database would be more efficient. with
> 5000 users you already get a lot of data (depending how granular you
> want to capture). and then making analysis on top of this is too much
> for xml I would say.
> 
> I have lots of experience with mysql. so I would recommend to use it -
> its easy, quickly installed and many already fot it one way or the
> other.
> 
> rgds,
> 
> uwe
> 
> 
> 
> Am Montag, den 09.11.2009, 11:01 -0800 schrieb Jordan Erickson:
>> Hi Uwe,
>>
>> Uwe Geercken wrote:
>>> it is maybe a little bit early in the process, but would we have access to a webdesigner resource? I 
>>> can setup the webapplication and also the database, if that is what we decide, but I am not so good at
>>> webdesign. I can do it including e.g. CSS but it would really be better to have a professional designer 
>>> for that task.
>> Any awesome web designers out there (or someone who knows an awesome web
>> designer) want to handle this part? :)
>>
>>> the other question would be, if you foresee to use a database at all for tuxtype or would you use plain
>>> textfiles?
>>>
>>> don't get me wrong, I don't want to take all in my hands. I love to work in a team of people. I am just
>>> trying to get my mind clear of the overall system design. maybe that still changes, but anyway I'd like
>>> to have an overview to see how things can be hooked together or where the interfaces are.
>> Well, from my point of view I'm really not sure. I'd think XML would be
>> good, but I'm not sure how much it can scale compared to a DB (I'm
>> thinking at worst, you'd have a district "server" for all students of a
>> large family of schools, maybe ~5000 users? Is that too much for
>> text-based database?
>>
>> Community input?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jordan
>>
>>
>>
>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>> Von: "Jordan Erickson" <jerickson at logicalnetworking.net>
>>>> Gesendet: 07.11.09 05:47:27
>>>> An: uwe <uwe.geercken at web.de>
>>>> Betreff: Re: [Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] Response from school staff regarding progress tracking
>>>
>>>> I can tell you're into data collection/intelligence. Very good method! =)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> - Jordan
>>>>
>>>> uwe wrote:
>>>>> hello everybody,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have printed out all the responses and will try to get them into the
>>>>> document I am wrting up. I think it is a good idea to have the different
>>>>> opinions or request in one place rather than scattered over mails.
>>>>>
>>>>> is this ok for everybody?
>>>>>
>>>>> rgds,
>>>>>
>>>>> uwe
>>>>>
>>>>>
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