Software Development

Current Project

Project Manager

Project Manager is intended as a simple project management application. I would describe the current version as a study prototype used to explore the basic functionalities involved. This current version will not be the final release form, but I will be working with it to explore different aspects of the functionality needed. In the last few days, I have secured the application to ensure that it can be used in real-world project planning.

I have discovered that some underlying structural aspects of this system will not scale. I have also decided that the availability of AJAX functionality makes the POST-and-full-reload paradigm used here obsolete. Future versions will be AJAX-based. In the meantime, I will continue to refine the behavior of the current version.

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Perl Projects

As I look through my Perl work for sample applications to mount, one thing becomes distrubingly clear: most are not suitable for running outside of the contexts for which they were originally written. These include:

Online Registration form for the Oregon Bioneers 2005 Conference. This system worked with Paypal and the specifics of the Oregon Bioneers registration schema. I may dummy it up a bit and bypass the payment portion, but basically the utility is limited to that context.
A simple system for selctively providing files to students, designed to meet the specific needs of one of the LCC Science Faculty that I served.
An online progress sheet system created for another instructor.
A workshop proposal submission form developed for the 2005 Oregon Bioneers Conference.
A number of Perl/Tk applcations intended to run as local applications. These require that Perl v5.83+ and the Tk module for Perl be loaded on the users machine.

R. Joseph Newton