Yesterday, I spoke with other members of the team about the future of out applications. The agreement is that we want to move away from C++ and towards Java. We need to run on multiple platforms (Windows and Linux) and Java and C#/.NET/Mono are the two possibilities -- except that Mono is not allowed on our servers.
We also agree that web services are a good way to break the current application into smaller pieces. Instead of one PC-based app that reads a spreadsheet, performs calculations, and generates another spreadsheet, we can have three web services: read spreadsheet, perform calculations, create spreadsheet.
In other news, today I completed enough logic to convert a plain text file into a Lotus 1-2-3 WK3 file. (And have Lotus 1-2-3 read said file.) This is a big accomplishment, and helps us on our way to a redesigned system. Woo-hoo!
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