"The Project" Part 2: Planning

I thought that I would have had at least some progress by now, but I've found that a busy life leaves little time for side projects. Still, this is far from over, even if I am still in the planning stages.

This project is going to be well done, but low budget. I'm going to attempt to code the TMS itself using Python. With its large standard library, almost everything that I'm going to need is already there. It even has support for a database already included, and extensive support for Unicode.

For any images, I plan on using GIMP, a free alternative for graphics design and manipulation. I might even use Inkskape if I decide to use some vector graphics.

I know that this is going to be a fairly large project. I may want to do small chunks of functionality, then go for the larger stuff.

To be continued.

"The Project" Part One: The Beginning

Recently, I decided that I needed to hone my programming skills, so I've decided to take it upon myself to create a translation management system (TMS). There are so many translation tools out there, and I'm going to want this one to stand out among them. Right now, it's still in the planning phase (as in I'm planning to do it, but I'm still trying to work out where to begin). So far, I've had a couple of suggestions, but any more would be helpful. Any suggestions?

Ideas so far (mine and others'):

• An updated design/user interface.
• Purchase Order (PO) creation, or a way to access the information in order to create POs.
• Very customizable filters for XML and zipped XML formats, as well as regular expression filters for plain text formats, and filter chains.
• Customizable locales.
• Customizable segmentation.

Do you have any other ideas? Leave them in the comments!