Archive for March, 2010

Flexible Accommodation Options

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Business view: Victoria Accommodation Services help arrange temporary accommodation for students newly arriving in Wellington. As they started to bring new buildings into operation, their administration system needed to cope with the different choices that were now available.  We made adjustments to make make the system a lot more flexible.

Technical view: Dependency analysis, adjustment and testing of newly flexible inputs to a custom-built .NET admin system over an SQL Server database. Included adjustment to system-generated email trails.

Posted in .NET, 2010, Analysis, Custom build, Database, Formal project description, Incremental improvement, Sector, Support, Tertiary, Victoria Accommodation Service, Victoria University of Wellington | No Comments »

Victoria University Press

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Business view: Victoria University Press produces a wide range of books, of both general and specialist interest. We took their static HTML catalogue and made it much more usable. We also added a shopping cart and an ordering facility to handle both local and international orders — and an easy-to-use back-end administration system.

Technical view: Importation of VUP’s Excel-based catalogue to a SQL Server database, plus the inevitable data cleaning. Construction of business rules to handle complex freight charges. Integrated with redesigned front-end custom-built search, a shopping cart and a payment gateway, and addition of a back-end customised administration system based on our dbAdmin tool.

Posted in .NET, 2008, Analysis, Architecture, Custom build, Data cleaning, Database, Formal project description, HTML/CSS, Incremental improvement, Integration, Support, Tertiary, Type of work, Victoria University Press, Victoria University of Wellington | No Comments »

Legal references database

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Business view: The New Zealand Law and Literature/Law and Visual Media Database aims to explore the nature of legal references in New Zealand fiction. Dr Grant Morris, Senior Lecturer in Law at Victoria University of Wellington, wanted a simple way to enter, maintain and present the information online to academics, students, lawyers, writers and members of the general public.

Technical view: Database and screens built with dbAdmin, our tool for generating presentation and administration screens for SQL Server databases.  Work included assisting with data cleaning.

Posted in 2009, Analysis, Architecture, Custom build, Data cleaning, Database, Formal project description, Support, Tertiary, Victoria University of Wellington | No Comments »