Archive for the ‘2008’ Category
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 »
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Business view: Victoria’s online enrolment system was hard to use and poorly integrated with the institution’s other systems. Victoria wanted it to be faster and easier for students to use, more reliable, and to require less intervention by University administration staff.
Technical view: Redevelopment of online enrolment system for University including front-end build, integration with webservices provided by Oracle application server and integration with Oracle-based image/file services.
Posted in .NET, 2008, Analysis, Architecture, Custom build, Database, Design, Formal project description, HTML/CSS, Javascript, Service/Maintenance, Student Management Support, Support, Tertiary, Victoria University of Wellington | No Comments »
Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Business view: Legal compliance tool for Government departments for ComplyWith. We provided design and web development support to a partner company as they upgraded their product.
Technical view: Design & web enablement upgrade to .NET-based ComplyWith, used by government departments to simplify their legal compliance management.
Posted in .NET, 2008, 360 Media, Analysis, Architecture, ComplyWith, Custom build, Formal project description, HTML/CSS, Incremental improvement, Javascript, Private, Support, VIS | No Comments »
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Business view: From April 2008, car sales yards and online car auctions were required to display fuel economy information for vehicles they are selling. EECA wanted an application that would allow car yards to print physical labels, and to provide fuel economy information for online sellers like Trademe. It had to be easy, look great, and deal with millions of requests.
Technical view: Public labelling implemented as a PHP front-end talking to .Net Webservices + Bulk user access management written in .Net
Posted in 2008, Analysis, Architecture, Custom build, Database, EECA, Formal project description, Government, HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, Service/Maintenance, Support | No Comments »