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Managing office documents with automatic references

Oct 2, 2007 6:36AM PDT

For my job, I am sending a lot of quotation to customers. Quickly, it became a real headache to remember what quote was sent to which customer. This was also the case for all kind of correspondence. There was a need for referencing all these home/office documents.

I created a small application which generated and managed these reference. It was so handy that several colleague started to use it also. From that came the idea of of transforming it into a webware on the internet, for the free use of everybody.

http://www.TheEasyRef.com

If you like it, spread the word around you!

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While free, is the source open so when you move on...
Oct 2, 2007 9:21AM PDT

Such a service is usually limited to it's owner's attention span.

If this is open source you have my attention.

Bob

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(NT) The site was down. Which proves my point.
Oct 3, 2007 12:03AM PDT
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NT
Oct 3, 2007 3:46AM PDT

Hi Bob,

That prooves nothing but the fact that the webhosting service is of poor quality. This can be changed within no time. Actually, the hoster announced it is undergoing an upgrade and that the service is expected to be much improoved. We will see ...

In fact I would like to come back to your initial suggestion of open source. I am quite new in that field and am definately interested to go in that direction, if, at the end of the day, the service and feature are expanded. Could you elaborate how things happens and what should I do ? Can you suggest some links for more information about this?

Thanks.

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See Sourceforge and such.
Oct 3, 2007 5:24AM PDT

Open Source is widely written about so I'll decline duplicating web content.

However there is a real problem with web apps that will vanish once the author, company loses interest or a long list of issues. Open source means there is some hope one can continue to use the idea or software after it's end.

Yes, I do write software and so far each project I've done delivers the source to the customer.

Bob

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New updated version
Dec 7, 2007 10:30PM PST

Hello,

I have updated the webware and added several new features.

Moreover, it is now fully supporting Firefox.

Enjoy, it is free!