[Gnumed-devel] archive converted - now how cool is that

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Hi all,

While not exactly developer talk I can't resist sharing this. A few years back 
I wrote the first standalone document archive. Back then GNUmed was nowhere 
near it is today. My parents have been using this for 4 years or so and have 
been putting a total of 1605 documents in. I mean scan them in, associate 
some meaningful metadata (short summary, date, type of letter) . Actually 
those 1605 documents make up 2484 sheets since some are multipage letters.

Anyway the day had to come when GNUmed Librarian was released. Well it came 
and it was time to install GNUmed instead of the old standalone app. So one 
can say it was time for a migration from one unsupported app to the shiny new 
one. Is it possible ? You better believe it. Because of the power of 
OpenSource Karsten was able to extract the schema of the old database and 
write a converter to get the data flying over. 

To be honest ist took some hacking to do it but in the non-free world I guess 
it would have been close to impossible.

After solving some issues with umlauts (old db sql_ascii / new db unicode) The 
converter transfered the data without a hitch ( 1GB of data in approx. 20 
minutes) 

Why is that so exiting ? Because for the first time I have 638 patients in 
GNUmed which let's you do some performance testing. What can I say. Patient 
search is instantaneous.

This so rocks. GNUmed 0.2 has hit the real world.
-- 
Sebastian Hilbert 
Leipzig / Germany
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