permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

John Schinnerer wrote:
> Aloha,
>
>
> > I propose that we use this as a staging area to collect data that
> > you, the PFAF staff and others
> > eventually put into the PCPlantDB. Heidi and her SOUL group could
> > follow the same procedure.
>
>
> Basic rule of programming - DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) - applies to
> data entry too.

I'm sure this is good advice but it will take a while for PFAF's
new database, the PC Wiki's PHP/MySQL database or your OOP DB.
We need something to use right now and the Wiki is up and running
and has everything we need to store information in an intelligent manner.

> Put it in a 'real' DB (some SQL flavor) *once*.  Then it can be
> relatively easily extracted into wikis and whatever other front ends
> people want to create.

Good idea. So which platform are you interested in working on?
In the meantime I plan to stuff the PC Wiki with all sorts of material
I hope will be of interest to folks in the list.

LL
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