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

[Jordan Erickson]

Hey Matt,

I actually like the design of the Tux4Kids sites. It's simplicity, which
I think teachers/other admin-type people would like using.

Just my $0.02 (which is actually now worth probably about $0.002),

Jordan



Matthew McSpadden wrote:
> 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