New Progress

Well its been a year since I last posted but suffice to say that there has been much going on in my life that has kept me from making forward progress on the application as originally as planned. The dog is better and his surgery will only delay our retirement by a year or so. Winter is here so I’ve actually have had a little more downtime to refocus on the effort…

Started a new effort recently that focuses more on the data entry aspect of database. The thought is, there isn’t much use in having a really great system to edit and maintain all the data without having a way to motivate people to enter it in the first place. The vehicle for having users enter data is an comic cataloging application that lets users track and view their collection. The basic idea of this new direction is to have a wizard type application that lets you index comics by the box (or partial box) for existing collections or by purchases as you buy comics (i.e., every Wednesday). You scan the comic’s UPC and if it exists in the database, it is added to your collection. If its not in the database the application prompts you add it with the focus on that you add the UPC of the comic book that you’re trying to index.

The application will have support for:

• Automatically obtaining cover images or allowing the user to upload them
• Ability to upload a scan of the comic’s indicia
• Pull List & Purchase tracking / management to allow the automated entry of comics purchased from dealers with a fixed discount off a cover price
• Box / Location management to allow you to see where your comics are and how to reorganize them based on box capacity and the number of issues of a give tittle that you own.

I don’t want to go into too much detail other than its coming along… I will post more updates soon.