Building MyJet
Well, time moves on and I’ve decided to write about the biggest project I’ll be undertaking in my new-found position on the Student Committee as the IT guy.
We (the students) have an intranet site – available only from within FTE – upon which news, information and events are posted. Also to be found on this intranet site are the Flying and Ground-school programmes, and a set of discussion forums.
This is all very well and good, and as a site it functions quite well. However, there are a few major changes it has had to undergo in order to show the timetables, and as features have been added (TV room booking, suggestion boxes, Online CRP-5′s…) it has become rather cluttered and a rather nasty, hacked site to attempt to administer.
I was perusing the massed jumble of files and the crumpled mess of a database and A thought struck me. Currently any information I might want as regards my flying schedule is a whole 15 or so clicks away from the information I want about being able to book the minibus for a trip into town. What if I could log into the site and it straight away told me what classes I have today/tomorrow/the rest of the week, or what days and what times I’m flying for the rest of the week? What if, if I wanted to book the TV room, I merely had to go and select the times I wanted and say what programme it was for? What if, if I want to book the minibus, all I have to do is provide the reason, times, and a contact number. If I was banned from the minibus, I wouldn’t be able to book it.
The login’s for this wonder-site could also tie-in with people’s logins to the forums.
This was my idea, and at first glance it looks an almost insurmountable task. Basically, I want to write my own mini-facebook.
I decided that this was feasable at the last comittee meeting, where we discussed what ough to go into such a system, and if such a development task was even possible. It was decided that I should at least try to get a system out there to replace the now clunking and slow intranet Site.
The name:
Well, the committee also goes by the name of the Jerez Entertainment Team, and the current site is called JET Online (with the forums being called JETblast). In line with this tradition My wonder-site will go by the name of MyJET.
Posts in this category will cover the project, from basic design to the more intricate details of the coding problems involved. I expect it will get rather technical at times.
Feel free to follow along with me as I attempt the task (don’t worry, normal blogging will continue!)
Mike out.
