experiments in the realm of data collection
What is Stacks?
Stacks is my take on some data collection ideas I’ve been having for the last couple of years. Hopefully, Stacks will mutate into something useful.
I have a lot of ideas about Stacks, what I want it to do and how to implement everything. Unfortunately, almost nothing is written down, but I want to change that, so here it is.
Why name it Stacks?
Well, my other name idea was Collections but that was taken and extremely boring so I changed it to Stacks. I chose this name because of the stacks of paper polluting my desk, really!
Basically, if you ask Google, a stack is an orderly pile. That’s what I want to accomplish, to create something that can collect anything and turn it into an orderly pile.
Stacks basics
Stacks is a general purpose generic data collection application.
What that means is that Stacks can collect all and any kind of data in whatever structure.
Some usage scenarios for Stacks.
Home scenarios:
- Catalog my books, games and DVD’s
- Catalog my currency collection, with pictures and details
- Publish data to Google Base
Enterprise scenarios:
- Use Stacks as a primary data collection module for larger projects.
- Collect any data fast. Take advantage of data validation features and multiple format export features builtin.
The Stacks icon
Although it may seem strange, I can’t actually work very well without a graphical representation, a symbol of what I’m doing so here’s the hopefully temporary Stacks icon/logo. I say hopfully temporary because I know that I am not an artist.
You can also view/download the SVG source of the icon. Do with it as you please, it’s in the Public Domain.
I’m going to work on the 16×16 window icon as it seems that designing small icons is really hard :).
