To-do manager


This implementation of a to-do manager is heavily influenced by the open-source workflow toolkit project, and it's also growing out of my long-time need for a project task manager for dealing with my customers' support requests. The database schema used will thus be the same required by the wftk engine, but the goal is an application that can stand alone without workflow.

The platform I'm developing this version against is AOLserver/Tcl for a couple of reasons. The most important of those reasons is simply that I'm pressed for time due to a couple of illnesses (gotta love these Indiana springs) and I'm pretty good at Tcl, so this is the quickest way to get this portion of the overall wftk system completed. However, the platform, while not particularly portable, has a lot to recommend it. If you're not familiar with it, I encourage you to read up on it a little.

And just so I have all the related links out of the way right off the bat, I'm coding this in a literate programming style using my very raw tool LPML. Please feel free to give me any feedback you might have about the formatting of the code, therefore, because that is also under development.

For the wftk folks following along, the fact that this prototype is being implemented in AOLserver/Tcl in no way constrains your own implementation. I want to hammer out the function points and database schema without wasting too much time on languages I'm less familiar with, but for the "release" version of the wftk (whatever that means), I'd like to have at least a Perl/CGI implementation (for broad support) and possibly something in ASP as well. I'm sure most of you would like to see a Java servlet approach, but within the timeframe of this initial project, I don't consider that likely. (Now if anybody wants to help, that'll be a different matter!)

Really, to fit into a wftk installation, the to-do manager must:

And here's how I do it. This presentation defines two files: