My vision for the garden website is continuing to evolve as I moderate what I want, need, and will update. Right now, I’m investigating using RealBasic to write a program that records various aspects of the garden and can output them to a website. Notes for personal observations, database for plant file info, the ability to store photos of a plant as it grows, disease progression, etc., calendar of when I have done things, the ability to search various specific websites on the internet for specific plant info. Notes can dump into posts on WordPress. The plant file database dumps into pages.
This would go much easier, if RB wasn’t a little bitch about not allowing databases on the $100 version. No way am I spending $500 on this highly experimental project just to get db access. However, RB kicks VB6 down flat and it has the ability to compile to Windows and Mac.
I’ve worked through this design process before at work. If something comes out the other end, it’s almost always rock sold and a very useful tool. A quick Google search showed that there are now gardening applications. A good personalizeable plant file db might be good enough to sell the whole thing. Then the blog connectivity. Then the notes. There is plenty of room to grow.
We’ll see.