I want something like...

Well, I guess we must be doing something right. In the style of "I want something like ebay but I only have $50", yesterday, I found this on Getacoder.

I am looking for some one to develope an application like the following: Oriador Staff Rota http://www.oriador.com/staff_rota_software.htm

1) It must be in Delphi 5 but also run complied as a standalone app in Delphi 8. As we are moving platforms to 8 next year

Interestingly enough, I had an email around the same time as this from someone who claimed to be starting a project similar to Oriador, in Delphi. He wanted to know if our software was developed in Delphi, and if so, whether there was a standard control to replicate all our custom rota & scheduling controls... I wonder how it all panned out.

Taking a complete detour, Joel Spolsky posted some photos from a New Orleans trip. Having been without our home since January because of flooding, albeit on a smaller scale, my heart really goes out to everyone affected. I had felt like I was having a bad year, but, after the last couple of days, I feel very lucky.