-Troy.
N. Trevor Brierly wrote:
Hello all,
This is to introduce myself briefly. I'm Trevor Brierly, from the Northern Virginia area. I've been a Java developer for the past 1 and a half years, with 4 years of experience before that in ASP, Visual Basic, etc., all of it primarily in web development or tools development.
I'm interested in the SWORD Project primarily because I've been very frustrated trying to use the commercial software for Windows that currently exists for Bible study. (NavPress WORDSearch, Logos, etc.) The interfaces are miserable to work with, and as a developer the thought naturally occured that I could probably design something better myself. Some cold water was thrown on that idea when I did some investigation into the STEP format and found that it was a binary format based on RTF which is miserable to work with. The thought then occurred to me that it would make more sense to use XML to encode texts of the Bible and related study works. Further investigation led me to Bible Technology Group (conveniently located about 3 miles away from me in Chantilly, VA!) and their OSIS format. I had some interesting conversations with Mike Perez and Steve DeRose from the ABS there, and with Troy who was visiting.
I'm most interested in working on the Windows interface for SWORD. 2 or 3 months ago I think it was that I spoke to Troy about this, and he indicated that at that time there was no one really working on it. Is this still the case? I'm very interested of course in getting in contact with anyone else who is (or was) working on the Windows interface.
Also, the "SWORD Project for Windows" page (http://www.crosswire.org/sword/develop/biblecs/index.jsp) is currently spewing ServletExceptions. Who would I speak to about this?
Thank you for listening! grace and peace, Trevor Brierly
"...the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks. To do as we say in the Gloria in Excelsis: ...We praise you, we call you holy, we worship you, we proclaim your glory, we thank you for the greatness of your splendour." J.R.R. Tolkien
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