OT - looking for feedback per development tools
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Fri Feb 6 01:00:37 UTC 2009
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 16:50 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote:
> Hi All;
>
> We're preparing to embark on a new development project. It will eventually be
> released dual projects similar to Red Hat with a commercially supported side
> and a leading edge open source side.
>
>
> The project will pull data from a database and present info to users. We'll
> need a graph/chart component and a way to generate html, PDF and spreadsheet
> reports/downloads. It will be a web based interface.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) I'm thinking we'll write the initial commercial (closed source) code in C.
> Anyone have any thoughts/alternative suggestions ?
>
> 2) anyone know of a good source of C library routines (something like CPAN) ?
>
> 3) Any thoughts on the methods to generate XML via C ?
>
> 4) Any suggestions per the generation of the PDF, HTML, etc reports on screen
> and for download ? maybe php within the web front end? a set of C routines to
> be called based on basic report parameters? others ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your feedback...
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of course, if you want to do all sorts of disparate programming like C
and PHP, etc. knock your socks off.
Craig
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