Family-friendly contact manager
Mark Komarinski
mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu Apr 21 09:30:01 EDT 2005
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:23:30PM -0400, Kevin D. Clark wrote:
>
> Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> writes:
>
> > Well that's what I was really looking for, or something MySQL backed so they
> > can make an ODBC call to print out holiday labels. Strangely enough,
> > I think we'd find more use for that than easily looking up e-mail
> > addresses.
>
> The Scene: December in the Komarinski Household.
>
> Family member #1: I'm trying to lookup our cousin's Christmas
> wishlist, but I'm having some trouble with the ODBC bindings for
> Ruby. Specifically, when I execute "SELECT * FROM wishlist
> WHERE gift IS NULL;" I get inconsistant results.
Naw. We already have that and it works really well.
http://phpgiftreg.sourceforge.net/
> If your family can't even spell ODBC, then you're probably all the
> last remaining vestages of a family that made its fortune selling
> buggy-whips. (-:
We're a pretty large family, so my wife and I send out 150-200 cards a year.
Doing a mail merge for the labels would be a lot easier. As it turns out,
at least two of my relatives are sharing copies of an access database
for doing this, so centralizing it would be a good thing.
May as well start on this now, so I have 7 months to get it all figured out.
-Mark
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