[CS-FSLUG] Church Management Software

[EnzoAeneas]

Miro http://www.getmiro.com/
Songbird http://www.songbirdnest.com/
Aptana Studio (mashes Firefox 3 codebase and Eclipse quite well)
http://www.aptana.com/
ActivateState Komodo IDE http://www.activestate.com/komodo_ide
Prism http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/
Chatzilla http://chatzilla.rdmsoft.com/xulrunner/
---------Actually Ubuntu allows for you to install prepackaged webapps
via its package manager for Prism

with more here
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner_Hall_of_Fame

I hope this helps.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:37 PM, Robert Wohlfarth <rbwohlfarth at gmail.com> wrote:
> EnzoAeneas <enzoaeneas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So now as I think about it, a browser-based solution is less optimal,
>  > but applications that mash web-based technologies into a native
>  > application such as those based on XulRunner that can harness
>  > server-side processing locally while presenting a "native" interface.
>  > They can directly read and save files, and talk to databases, using
>  > "servers" and services only when there is an advantage to doing so.
>  > It will allow us to use whatever strengths are at our disposal, saving
>  > implementation time, but also allow our users to take advantage of
>  > functionality that we never have to include ourselves. Features such
>  > as PDF output, image zooming, graph interactivity, and format
>  > conversion are far more easily (and reliably) by browsers and
>  > server-based software simply because the developers that employ these
>  > methods do not always have complete control over their environments.
>  > And our users won't know that it is built on top of a browser
>  > framework.
>
>  What might a good example application or two? Something that runs
>  locally, like we're discussing.
>
>  Web interfaces are relatively new territory to me. Seeing it in use
>  would help tremendously. I use Ubuntu Linux, if it makes a difference
>  to your recommendations.
>
>  --
>
> Robert Wohlfarth
>  rbwohlfarth at gmail.com
>
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>  hour to his life? -- Matthew 6:27
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