Well, looks like Emacs is really an operating system disguised as a text editor.
Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
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Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#22I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…
Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?
GnuCobol? Text mode only.
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#23I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…
Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?
Oracle Apex is probably the best
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#24This is super cool, but I’d worry a lot about passing on the domain knowledge to somebody else without a dead-simple TUI/GUI. Eventually somebody else will need to run things.
This reminds me of supermarket clerks running IBM 3270 apps one handed. As long as the UI is straight forward, it doesn’t need to be pretty or slick. It just needs to be second nature.
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#25This is super cool, but I’d worry a lot about passing on the domain knowledge to somebody else without a dead-simple TUI/GUI. Eventually somebody else will need to run things.
Training I guess?
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#26This is super cool, but I’d worry a lot about passing on the domain knowledge to somebody else without a dead-simple TUI/GUI. Eventually somebody else will need to run things.
Will this be software the author will ever have to pass on? I'd guess probably not, considering it's software for his small bakery. It's software directly tied to his identity - he's the sole consumers. That's exactly the kind of software emacs is great for, and precisely the kind of software "hacker" types use.
He's not going to sell this as a "bakery management system" and become a software company, he's just going to bake bread. If he needs to share the _information_, then he can just print reports, that's ostensibly what the system is _for_.
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#27Soon Emacs will replace bread oven.
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#28I think PostgreSQL is great, but I also think SQLite would be much better for this use case.
What would be even cooler would be a minimally updated FoxPro, just to make it run on modern OSes and such.
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#29I think PostgreSQL is great, but I also think SQLite would be much better for this use case.
why ?
Re: Running a Bakery on Emacs and PostgreSQL (2019)
#30I‘ve been using MS Access some twenty years ago to do all sorts of magic for small businesses. That was from the 90s to the early 2000s. - Later I‘d use Python to do magic for companies who didn‘t know anything better than MS Excel to handle large sets of data, and when they were lost in chaos, I‘d start to streamline, process, tidy their data and help them make sense. Just two examples that showed me: Use whatever h…
Only vaguely related: what would be the Access equivalent of today? Somethings with low learning curve and forms. Any suggestions?
Thank you for all the suggestions!
Will check them out!