Archive for the ‘2005’ Category

Fees Calculator

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Business view: Victoria wanted students , both domestic and international, to be abe to calculate the cost of their studies as they choose courses. Students can also come back later and resume the calculator where they last left off.

Technical view: .NET application, integrated with the Course Catalogue. Calculator instance data held in SQL Server and made retrievable via email address.

Fuel consumption certification site

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Business view: NZTA wanted a system to help importers comply with a new requirement to provide fuel consumption data for the cars they imported. The success case for the project stipulated that there be zero complaints from importers at the new requirement. We successfully worked with NZTA to create a series of point-and-click steps that matched a car on the dock with records in the fuel consumption database. There were no complaints!

Technical view: Design and creation of a PHP-based lookup site to the SQL Server-based Fuel Consumption Database, connected via web services, containing rapid validation options to match the imported vehicle to known data.

Abstracts for Refugee Status Appeals Authority

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Business view: The RFAA wanted much better access to relevant decisions, a more efficient way to create Abstracts, and the removal of a legacy document management system.

Technical view: Extraction and data cleaning of existing Folio-managed decision Abstracts. Creation of .NET-based admin tools for constructing , publishing and indexing future Abstracts, including automated checks on data integrity at the point of publication. Addition of custom-built structured search on Abstracts, with tag-based search guidance. Design and usability testing of visual interface, establishment as primary way of navigating the decision library. Removal of Folio.