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<blockquote data-quote="Deeohem" data-source="post: 304713" data-attributes="member: 5860"><p>Package information, but not package delivery... how about package shipping? Right now, there's easily a half-dozen different UPS solutions to ship with (Internet Shipping, Campusship, iShip, WorldShip, Online Tools Harvey?) and they all look and act differently. It's time to merge the code base, add modularity, and extend the software. With AJAX it should be possible to make a web-based software solution that looks and acts more like WorldShip. This should be a goal. As a shipper moves through Internet Shipping, WorldShip, and Campusship, we can offer a consistent look and feel and no productivity loss for our shipper in learning the ins and outs of the various software. Next, if we can get a web-based app that looks like a desktop app, why not replace WordShip with a web-based app? It's be a matter of selecting a robust embedded web-server module and a module to handle offline communication. </p><p></p><p>Go modular. Build a framework where things like embedded web-servers, MSDE/SQL Express, offline processing, can be linked a compile/install time as necessary. </p><p></p><p>Improve client-server connectivity. WorldShip currently uses SQL Server in the form of MSDE. I've had shipper ask if they could use their company SQL server. Why not? Why not a flavor of WorldShip, that instead of having a Database module that uses MSDE have one with a generic database comm module? Larger shippers could configure to point to their SQL server and have at. Perhaps other databases?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deeohem, post: 304713, member: 5860"] Package information, but not package delivery... how about package shipping? Right now, there's easily a half-dozen different UPS solutions to ship with (Internet Shipping, Campusship, iShip, WorldShip, Online Tools Harvey?) and they all look and act differently. It's time to merge the code base, add modularity, and extend the software. With AJAX it should be possible to make a web-based software solution that looks and acts more like WorldShip. This should be a goal. As a shipper moves through Internet Shipping, WorldShip, and Campusship, we can offer a consistent look and feel and no productivity loss for our shipper in learning the ins and outs of the various software. Next, if we can get a web-based app that looks like a desktop app, why not replace WordShip with a web-based app? It's be a matter of selecting a robust embedded web-server module and a module to handle offline communication. Go modular. Build a framework where things like embedded web-servers, MSDE/SQL Express, offline processing, can be linked a compile/install time as necessary. Improve client-server connectivity. WorldShip currently uses SQL Server in the form of MSDE. I've had shipper ask if they could use their company SQL server. Why not? Why not a flavor of WorldShip, that instead of having a Database module that uses MSDE have one with a generic database comm module? Larger shippers could configure to point to their SQL server and have at. Perhaps other databases? [/QUOTE]
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