So, allow me to give you an update on things that I’ve been working on lately. Aside enjoying my awesome summer break with friends and family, I’ve actually been getting a lot of work done. My day job keeps me pretty well on my toes, and other projects I’m involved in and/or working on keep me fairly tied up as well. The next few days, I’ll be blogging about some of these projects and sharing my experiences as they progress. First, let’s start off with my most recent and most active:
The Pennsylvania State University IT Club Helpdesk (ITCH) Workorder Management System: Sounds like a mouthful, eh? This is a project started in our Spring 2011 Semester for a graded group assignment (which we did exceptionally well on, by the way). The IT Club Helpdesk on campus needed a revamp of their current database solution. For this project, we designed the framework to a php/mysql solution enabling easy access to user management and control, along with some basic database functionality for managing client workorders for PC repair. Although we got a great grade on the project and about 300 hours of work went into it’s design, it was actually somewhat sloppy in code structure. Now that I have some time to redesign the system from a fresh slate, and some basic understanding of Objective PHP design, it’s time to make something much more usable and deployable for real-world IT needs.
In the next couple of weeks I will have finished the core foundation for the project, and I will be working with the team to further develop the application to better suit our needs over the course of the next couple semesters (Fall 2011/Spring 2012). I’ll post more about the project as development continues.