the village buzz

okay, i have decided to play with seaside for my next round of goofing around with web development. i wanted to make sure that i was setting something up that would lend itself to a web app rather than a web site. so, in order of appearance, here are the thing i am gonna play with writing in seaside.

1. asset management system - where i work, we have about 12 machines. each has software that has licenses, and we sometimes transfer those licenses around. it’s a good idea for us to keep a track record of what employee has which machine, and any permutations of that information. although this would be totally easy to do with pretty much antyhing, it would be a good candidate to try with seaside.
Pharmacy blog
2. rhapsody scrobbler - i use last.fm like crazy. i also use rhapsody like crazy. unfortunately, they don’t mix. what you listen to in rhapsody does not count on your last.fm scrobbles. so, i decided to fix this. i wrote a library of functions in ruby that take the xml feed from rhapsody and scrobble it, all the while keeping track to make sure there are no repeats. by adding a multi user interface to this, i bet some folks out there would like to have something like this.
Site map
3. amateur radio log - yes, there are millions of them, but i think it would be fun to make one that uses google maps and calculates distances, etc. it could be run locally, or on a multi user server. it might also incorportate LOTW i would imagine. i dunno how crazy i will get with this, as i currently use paper and pen for logging, but it would stil be a good exercise.

the only thing that i wonder about is how the multi user and multi role systems will work. i tried this before, and seemed to have some trouble with it, but i will keep you posted.