ADV: Contractor wanted: web development for fP back-end

[Barry Wiseman]

I confess I've spent the past year toying with the notion of dumping
filePro in favor of a LAMP implementation.  At the end of the day I've
decided this would be just beyond painful -- far too many wheels to
reinvent.

So, on to Plan B: a browser-based UI that will utilize my core existing
filePro back-end.  I'm looking for someone who can work with me on a
contract basis to achieve this.

The product is a vertical market system featuring fairly complex inventory
control; tracking of orders and shipping; billing and receivables; and
other odds and ends (various types of data import/export, storage and
retrieval of inventory pictures and scanned documents, etc.).  Product
will be hosted on Linux servers.

Main design goal is a presentation layer that is robust, professional and
cosmetically polished-looking (i.e. fileProGI need not apply), and that
allows simple, intuitive point-and-click methods of navigation and data
retrieval appropriate to a well-designed modern app.

The contractor I seek will:

* Be geographically accessible to New York City (although work need not be
done primarily onsite, I feel regular face-to-face meetings will greatly
facilitate progress).

* Be knowledgeable about web security issues and capable of properly
hardening the application and its host server.

* Specify and implement the CGI interface (with the tools of your choice)

* Working jointly with me, design web form functional requirements, 
logical flow of control from form to form, and data flow between forms and
underlying filePro application code.

* Again working jointly, redesign and implement application features in a
manner appropriate to a web app (e.g., present report runs and browse
lookups as paginated lists, provide query-by-example forms for selection).

* If you are capable of the actual html authoring, so much the better,
otherwise this can be contracted to a third-party web designer.  Again, a
smooth professional appearance is key.

Those interested, please contact me off-list to discuss this further. 
 

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 Barry Wiseman                           barry AT gensoftdes.com
 Genesis Software Designs, Inc.            Voice: (212) 889-9191
 18 E. 41 Street, New York, NY 10017         Fax: (212) 889-1589
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