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First Application Deployed


A web site using the application framework I've been developing was accepted by the sponsors and deployed today. The site tracks the progress of converting the Expense Management System, a legacy client-server application, to the SAP system and provides a query mechanism of the converted data, a before and after kind of snapshot of the data. This proprietary site was built over a weekend and uses Microsoft IIS and SQL Server 2000 for the production environment, but was mostly developed on Mac OS X and MySQL and both environments are fully supported with the same code base. From a technical standpoint, this was a very simple application that accepts various search criteria from the user, queries the database and displays the results as a table. But by using my framework, they also got the ability to sort the list by clicking a column heading, choosing which columns get displayed for each query, drilldown functionality, caching of the result sets for maximum performance, pagination, easy customization using stylesheets, platform independence and a flexible security system based on profiles (roles) and segregation of the data by business unit (workgroup).


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