From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Pino Zollo" Subject: New Realease of DBLog V. 0.6.3 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:57:32 -0300 Message-ID: <005901c864da$7c21b0d0$95ce10ac@tower> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; bh=GS0NBUpWV3DdqCaUrrNEF9+0oIdtK19xWHpeXQ/oMyM=; b=ny7TxQpV5q1Yr7+9vjuq7SVL72WE+Ma6WNxiSfUkVYFobPqdIXnag3WLYpeiwgem6GZN65X8kTtpLuVku3pmbFNPe3XZWOJ4NjBn/LxQQ3xHb8Wg+1THQVD2TLNeKJNidiOYS0OecYV4buGZAtekqS6AapA9g+WGCRLE+/X5j6U= Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Yahoo PSK group , Yahoo linux hams , ww0e@juno.com, VK5BR , va3db , sm6cvx@hjelmstrom.se It is available the version Beta 0.6.3 of DBLog for Linux on the site http://www.qsl.net/zp4kfx/Linux Comments and bug reports are welcome. 73 de Pino ZP4KFX ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Presentation of DBLog DBLog is a logging program for radio amateurs based on a relational Data Base. It has been developed in Gambas, a sort of Visual Basic for Linux, and the relational database PostgreSQL. It has been tested on MySQL by Antonio, IW2OAZ (iw2oaz at eutelia.com). It should work also with SQLite, but this has not been tested yet. It allows to log QSOs and export a range of them in ADIF format. It can read the radio frequency via CAT interface It includes a CW Keyer based on cwdaemon. The advantages of using a relational data base both for qso datas and configuration datas are: -- The code of DBLog is much simpler. -- The user can do any kind of fancy query on datas using the standard SQL language. -- The client-sever structure (PostgreSQL and MySQL only) allows a multi-operator club station or DX expedition to have many operators logging into the same log. The log server can even be remote. -- data back-up can be done using the database features. -- Other program can be used to analyse datas like psql, pgAdmin III, TOra for PostgreSQL, or Emma, MySQL query browser, MySQL-navigator for MySQL. -- Anybody can write other programs ( for digimodes, EME, Meteorscatter etc.) who log into the same log, without the need of been integrated into DBLog. The author (me ZP4KFX) endorse the idea that the radio amateur software should be open and free to allow the "home made" also in this area. He foresees also an open architecture for all radio amateur programs based on the separation of functions. Datas should be managed by an single data base server for all the shack. The various applications should gravitate around this data tank, possibly standardised (ADIF fields for the log for instance). This will simplify greatly life both for developers and users. DBLog is using free software and it is released in source code under the GNU GPL licence, so anybody can modify it and improve it. Beta testers and Gambas programmers are welcome ! 73 de Pino ZP4KFX pinozollo at gmail.com http://www.qsl.net/zp4kfx