I've made considerable progress on my journey toward developer status on the Nokia 770, but none of it is ready to see the light of day yet. I can, however, recount what I've done and what's happened in the last couple weeks.
- I got OpenSSH server installed so I can get at the 770 from a desktop or laptop. This makes everything else so much easier.
- I got Python installed and running.
- I figured out what I need to do to get sqlite running on the 770. I'm playing with it on my tablet (i.e., my HP/Compaq TC1100) when I get time.
- I installed Django framework on my TC1100, and ran into a snag this early AM (most of my development time is between 0500 and 0630 hours). Need to hit the user forums and see what's what. That's what I get for trying to develop in Windows outside of the Microsoft camp. Got to get VMWare running on the TC1100, but I fear its cohones are too small for that beast.
I think I may have mentioned this, but my current goal is to develop a lean-and-mean case report form delivery tool for electronic data capture on any kind of device that runs on the Web - a survey delivery tool that takes into account the form factor of whatever display it has to work with. It will be data-driven using XML, or possibly SNX - an XML subset (ergo, not XML, which doesn't allow for subsets) whose acronym means "Snx is Not Xml" (with a deep bow in the direction of Richard Stallman of course). SNX only lives in my imagination at the moment; it's a reincarnation of the SML movement that flowered and withered in the early 2000's as a reaction to the Wurlitzer-like complexity of XML.
I'm going to spend some posting energy on gaming out the requirements for review by all and sundry (All? Sundry? I believe you're out there somewhere...) But not until I get my feet wet with some coding.
Imposter syndrome, the horror, the horror. I haven't coded anything in 3 years save for some minimal XSLT - used to be a master coder in C, C++, Visual Basic, Perl, javascript, etc. Let's see if there's life in these fingers still... :-)
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