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Creating Preliminary Budget Models with FF&EZ

This post discusses how FF&EZ can fill the role of a typical planning spreadsheet in helping create an initial project budget.
A common approach to preliminary budgeting uses a spreadsheet grid of FF&E items, room types and budgets to create a "ballpark" FF&E budget for a proposed building. This post… http://www.ffez.com/site/index.php/blog/creating-preliminary-budget-models-with-ffandez/

Data-orientation vs. Document-orientation 3: Putting it back together again

The concluding entry in a series that introduces you to how databases work.
Previously, we've shown that an "all-in-one" spreadsheet approach to documenting FF&E specifications is cumbersome and hard to keep updated, In the second segment of this series,… http://www.ffez.com/site/index.php/blog/data-orientation-vs-document-orientation-putting-it-all-together/

Data-orientation vs. Document-orientation 2: Just how normal are you?

Part 2 of a discussion of how specifications data can be organized in more "data-oriented" ways
In discussing the limitations of "document-oriented" thinking in the last segment, I discussed one end of the range of ways to organize FF&E specifications data — looking at a… http://www.ffez.com/site/index.php/blog/document-orientation-vs-data-orientation-are-you-normal-or-not/

Data-orientation vs. Document-orientation 1: Introduction

Part of a series of entries describing the differences between being "document-oriented" and "data-oriented" as it applies to successfully using a database.
Being "data oriented" is really just thinking about the pieces of information you deal with daily and finding the most efficient and best-organized way to use them. It means that… http://www.ffez.com/site/index.php/blog/data-orientation/

Writing FF&E Specs: Word Processors vs. Spreadsheets vs. Databases

A discussion of the pros and cons of using different types of software to write FF&E specfications.
In discussing the relative merits of these approaches to documenting FF&E data, we can judge them with several criteria: General ease of learning Ease of making single… http://www.ffez.com/site/index.php/blog/writing_specs/