Yostivanich

I thought with the lack of news going on this week, I would pro­vide some info onto what I am cur­rently work­ing on. I have decided to cre­ate a library orga­ni­za­tion soft­ware, both to ful­fill a need in my life and to exper­i­ment with some new tech­nolo­gies for myself. The even­tual goal is to cre­ate a piece of soft­ware that allows you to add items such as books and dvds to a data­base that stores all the infor­ma­tion asso­ci­ated with the item and even where it is located. I would like to make the col­lec­tion eas­ily searched so I can find exactly what I am look­ing for and if I own the item. I’m cur­rently above 500 books with more being added every month and it has started becom­ing a has­sle know­ing if I own an item or not. This prob­lem has been grow­ing and pushed off to the side for sev­eral years now. I am finally get­ting the time to address it and I’ll address it the way that I know the best, with software.

I’ve been plan­ning and writ­ing some of the pre­lim­i­nary code for this library soft­ware for sev­eral weeks now and have a pretty good idea of where I want this to go and what I hope to learn along the way.

I’m ini­tially going to write this as a desk­top app in Java. I would like to even­tu­ally port/rewrite it into a web app along with an Open Social and Face­book inte­grated wid­get. I am also doing this because I want to release some­thing that is FOSS, and hope­fully solve this prob­lem that was on Slash­dot awhile back but with­out the cost asso­ci­ated with the solu­tions given.

I’ll hope­fully be work­ing on this and blog­ging about it every week or so to keep every­body updated. I will be releas­ing it to the pub­lic and the com­mu­nity when I hit a ver­sion that is runnable as well as fully under­stand the licens­ing and other work that I may have to do to keep it an open source project. Also I don’t cur­rently have a name for this project and would appre­ci­ate any and all suggestions.