Sage and Onion project

One of the biggest problems we have in our office is accessing data about all of our clients. As the company has developed over the years various systems and databases have been put in place to hold data about our clients. As you can imagine this can be a problem as some information you need is in one system but some the other part of it is held in yet another database. Recently I have been working on a way to marry all this information together. I’m looking at running this through a php web interface and a mysql database. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Software Development No Comments » July 2008

When is a process not a process

Any one thats been reading my past entries may know I dabble in a little software development here and there. Some times for my own amusement but quite often it’s for a reason relevant to work. Recently we have been developing a new application to talk the network connected devices we use. It constantly polls the devices for fresh information as long as the communication software is running somewhere on the network and adds this information to the database. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Andy Posted in: Software, Software Development No Comments » April 2008