Re: [MacPerl-WebCGI] Re: Real Estate Agent's database

[Bruce Van Allen <bva@cruzio.com>]

At 6:54 PM 6/23/00, Joel Rees wrote:
>Bruce Van Allen wrote:

[snip]

>>novice (no criticism implied), there are many ways to do that. It
>>would be wasteful to just start offering suggestions without a more
>>clear problem statement.
>
>Actually, this is what I was hoping you (or someone else here) would tell
>me. I need encouragement sometimes.
>

My apologies for a tone that might not have been encouraging. My 
messages to this list are sometimes too long, and when I try terse 
mode I start to sound like one of those usenet tough-guys...

>>3. But perhaps you're thinking of providing a 3-D fly-through, with
>>voice-over narration by the user's favorite movie star, plus an
>>overlay map showing applicable land use regulations, neighborhood
>>demographics, and nearest Starbucks? Might be overestimating the
>>patience of modem users, but such a CGI would hit the limitations of
>>CGI way before challenging the capabilities of Perl.
>
>Yowsa, yowsa!
>
There's always sub-contracting, but don't ask me -- I'm booked 
through November.
>
>My boss has a bad habit of not letting us get through a project before
>handing us two more.

Ain't it the fate of the programmer!

>So thanks for letting me know I don't need to
>abandon this one.

What you described has ingredients that _many_ CGI applications would 
employ, so there would be much useful learning in it.

Best wishes.

1;

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- Bruce

__Bruce_Van_Allen___bva@cruzio.com__Santa_Cruz_CA__

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