On Mon, February 4, 2008 2:36 am, Jochem Maas wrote: > Richard Lynch schreef: >> >> On Sun, February 3, 2008 11:51 am, Robert Cummings wrote: >>> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 18:15 +0200, Paul Scott wrote: >>>> On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 20:10 +1100, doc wrote: >>>>> come on people try you skills at >>>>> >>>>> http://www.rhwebhosting.com/comp/index.php >>>> Reworded as: >>>> >>>> Redesign our complete web presence and give us a couple of apps >>>> that >>>> we can flog to our clients, >>>> and we *may* give you a consolation prize. >>> So not worth the time and effort. Any person capable of doing the >>> code >>> conversion (to AT LEAST C, Python, and Perl nonetheless) is smart >>> enough >>> to know the potential payoff is worse than flipping burger and >>> McGeneric's. >> >> Actually, the specification for the real estate listing thingie >> looked >> pretty trivial... > > on the surface of things I would agree - which is why there are plenty > of trivial > real-estate listing apps out there. but I doubt that's what they are > looking for. Yes, well, the spec they wrote is what I'm referencing, not what I think they really need... :-) > when you factor in multi-user, multi-currency, multi-language aspects, > the ability > to switch between metric and imperial measurements, the issues related > to > normalization of real-estate data with regard to offering usable > search mechanisms > (everyone has different 'styles' of data), backend integration, > automated export > to third party systems and map integration things become a little more > involved ... > oh and flexibility because every real-estate agent is looking for > something *slightly* > different. Having gone through the process of buying a house this last year, and using a few online tools/searches, I can confidently say that even the ones in production use by big-name real estate companies... suck. :-) Not completely totally useless, but I could easily have eliminated 90% of the listings if they'd just provided some basic simple information correctly. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
