[Newbie] Code for web-based "members" database?

[Damon Lynch]

Wayne Pierce wrote:
> > 
> > It would be nice if people could suggest new areas of interest for
> > validation.
> 
> Not sure what you mean by this, any examples?

Whoops sorry -- meant merely that user input should be validated :-)
> 
> > The database is currently stored in a flat file (yuck!).  It could be
> > stored in a relational database, assuming that is the best way of
> > storing it.  Or any other manner I suppose!
> 
> I've done similar things with skills for tech projects in the past, I 
> dind't want to deal with SQL schemas so I typically use Metakit.  In the 
> situations I have needed there was only a few people writing to the 
> database.
> 

I just came across Wordnet
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/index.shtml
and PyWordNet
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywordnet

Very interesting in the sense of words being related to one another in
quite subtle ways--seems like it could really be of value for projects
like this.

Damon