Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

by buovjaga • 9 years ago

109 24 9 years ago

weberc23• 9 years ago

The documentation is pretty sparse, and no links to a product page. What does this actually do?

bepitulaz2• 9 years ago

The author of the software here. Basically, you can record when you start seedling the crops, when to harvest, record all your seeds inventory, and write to do lists.

This release has pretty basic functions, but it works for a small farm like mine. I'm still improving the features.

So sorry about the documentation. I need time to develop the website to accommodate the doc and the user guide.

skrebbel• 9 years ago

So sorry about the documentation.

Don't apologize for giving things away for free! Consider the GP's comment helpful feedback, not criticism. :-)

weberc23• 9 years ago

No need to apologize; I wasn't criticizing your project; it just doesn't make for a very interesting HN submission until some detail is added. :)

mrrsm• 9 years ago

What product is this competing against if any? I am guessing someone in the farming field may know more about what to do with the program but for the layman an explanation or some instructions as to how you use it would be awesome.

jkoschei• 9 years ago

This looks like a limited-feature clone of Agrilyst [http://agrilyst.com/], which won TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015.

(disclosure: I work at Agrilyst)

krayis• 9 years ago

You forgot free and open source.

mambodog• 9 years ago

There's a whole bunch of products in the 'farm management system' category. YC's entry is called Farmlogs. I previously worked for another such company called Agworld.

https://www.google.com/search?q=farm+management+system

karlshea2• 9 years ago

I'm a Drupal dev and I stumbled upon farmOS[0] awhile ago, it's pretty crazy what all this stuff can do. I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised about the amount of data that's useful to a farmer.

[0] http://farmos.org/

ams6110• 9 years ago

OT: Why is Drupal 8 such a trainwreck? It's been out for quite some time now, had beta releases available since 2014 and so many modules are still unported or in early alpha status with many issues.

nashashmi• 9 years ago

It seems like a cross between a GIS data system and farm inventory manager. Plus it has data layers for time based crops, water systems, etc.

weberc23• 9 years ago

Would be nice if they expounded on that; I'm not really sure what either of those things are (or rather, I have a hard time envisioning how they would improve the life of a farmer), and I grew up on a farm.

cdevs• 9 years ago

At the least Nice site for any one looking to see a symphony example. I don't use symphony and despite liking most of the code I still hate the idea developers hand typing routes and that's my main selling point for something barebones like code igniter or some other automated routing process like a json-rpc API that can figure out what controller to go to on it's own.

ivanhoe• 9 years ago

and when you need to rename a single route you do what, rename the whole controller and/or method?

prodikl• 9 years ago

exactly, that's the downside to it.

it's really nice to have /controller/method/param/param routing out of the box, so the speed of 0 to MVP is quick, but on the other side, renaming a route sucks. unless you have a list of overrides in which case, may as well just use hand written routes from the get go

acomjean• 9 years ago

I guess you can use a micro framework, I Use silex. They're much less opionated. It's built with a synfony components so it's very similar (I think it's the same people).

breadmaster• 9 years ago

That's what I like about Symfony. It's all in my hands to configure.

emodendroket• 9 years ago

I don't understand that philosophy. Isn't the ideal that the default is something sensible and you only change it if you want different behavior?

thaiphanvevo• 9 years ago

I disagree. That's too magic for my liking. I like Laravel's routing solution where you have to manually map a route to a controller action. You can set route groups and restrict middleware to specific routes and stuff so pretty powerful!

wolco• 9 years ago

Laravel's routing and the entire framework makes it impossible to go back to CI.

nodesocket• 9 years ago

Is this focused on a particular farming nitch? Marijuana? The README.md should have more features/benefits and screenshots at the top, not just all technical doc.

arcbyte• 9 years ago

Anybody have a dockerfile that will run this? I'm killing myself trying to build one.

Tania – PHP-based free and open source farming management system

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