Tom, I was thinking about doing this myself - I would love to download a
copy of the program!!
Jim Caldwell
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Scales" <tscales@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: [OM] Wildly [OT] - I combined my camera hobby with my programming
hobby
> This is wildly off-topic, except that in the end there is OM camera
> equipment involved. To set the stage, I've been struggling to keep up
with
> what I own and what I want to keep and what I want to sell. So, I started
> looking for a decent database program to keep it in. In the end, I
decided
> to play and built myself a custom database for my 'inventory'. I then
wrote
> a Visual Basic application that would pull all the information from the
> database and apply HTML templates to it and build the pages of my
inventory.
>
> OK, that was poorly written, but in the end, if you want to see the
results,
> try this link:
>
> http://www.zuikoholic.com/category/main.htm
>
> Everything on that page and any page in the inventory is all dynamically
> built. This includes inserting the thumbnails and all the links to the
> bigger pictures. If you leave off information (price, etc), it just
blanks
> out that column. The database also lets me keep track of how much I paid,
> what I expect to sell it for and what I finally do sell it for and reports
> on how I am doing. My next enhancement is to have it automatically
calculate
> my ebay fees for things I sell on ebay and subtract that.
>
> OK, the effort I spent doing this was more than manually keeping the
webpage
> up-to-date for the next 10 years, but it was fun. I've had the last
couple
> weeks off, so this was my play project.
>
> If anyone is interested in using this to keep track of their own
equipment,
> I'd be happy to send the database and compiled VB program to you (or set
it
> up for download). It's not written for 'end-users', meaning there is no
> doc, but I could explain it pretty easily.
>
> If while you're wandering around you find something you want (didn't mean
to
> make this a sales email, but had to say this part), ignore the price and
> email me. Those are prices for someone that 'wandered into the site'.
>
> Any thoughts, suggestions for improvements or criticisms welcome, but keep
> them off-line. Any flames should be off-line too. They're welcome, but
> let's not clutter the list with them.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
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