Good program for Palm-based scouting software development?

[mbmccormick]

Do you know of any good (preferably free) applications or methods to creating scouting software for the Palm devices? Aside from doing at all by hand in c++?

[EHaskins]

Windows Mobile or PalmOS?

If you're running Palm you should probably start at the Palm Developer Netork (https://pdn.palm.com/regac/pdn/index.jsp)site. I don't have any experiance with PalmOS programming.

If you're running Windows Mobile you should start at the Windows Mobile Developer (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/developers/default.mspx) page. You can program Windows Mobile using the .net Framework and C# or VB.net.

[laultima]

Ive been planning on writing a little scouting program in VB for a windows mobile device Ive been planning on getting. If it turns out any good, Ill release it here.

[EHaskins]

Ive been planning on writing a little scouting program in VB for a windows mobile device Ive been planning on getting. If it turns out any good, Ill release it here.

I started a project like that last year, but I never finished it. If you want a second set of eyes let me know.

[artdutra04]

I've toyed with the idea before of writing an AJAX-based web application for scouting for competitions. There, I'd have it use a dedicated tower to host an Apache web server with PHP and MySQL plugged into an intranet Wifi router, accessible through by going to that IP address and logging in.

Then anyone on the team with a mobile device with Wifi networking (like iPhone or iPod Touch) could just log in, and all simultaneously keep updating the databases with new information. And since it's all stored in databases, it would be really easy just to write a script to run a lot of statistical calculations on this data, and generate all kinds of advanced ranking algorithms...

And by going with the web application route, it would also be device and platform independent.