GNUe Case Study

Property Inspection Small Business

Requirements - client goals & specs

• Construction Log Manager - info about property and project including address, loan amount, and days in progress.
• Search by name and zone
• Printouts to bring onsite
• Cost-effective

Technical Requirements

• Cross-platform
• Free / Open Source

Research

Schema - MySQL Command Center

Wizard + tweaks

Field length limit - hand-edited XML

Format masks - hardcoded workaround

Printing - trigger, ReportLabs, Acrobat Reader

Develop in Redhat-8.0/GNU/Linux, deliver for Win32-XP