I think this is starting to get silly now, when I turn on my computer and start up my web browser I have it set to open 93 pages at the moment… I wish I knew what this said about me.

OK, it would be safe to say the last week has basically been insane amounts of not sleeping and developing PHP for my final year project and for a quick site for one of my modules.

The site I have been working on for my final year project is a records management tool for scout leaders called SORT (Scouts Online Records Tool).

It is basically a website that leaders can log into and get at all the details they store about the Beavers, Cubs and Scouts. So for example, the members section is a big table of the members they are allowed to see and then they can click on them and open up their profile in more detail. There is a messaging section which allows mass e-mails to be sent to parents for events and just general news. There is a section to deal with the badges side of record management (so who has done what towards badges) as well as some rather nice search features.

Well I basically started this site on Friday last week and worked on it constantly up until today when I had another site to make. You see, the SORT system has to be painfully secure due to the nature of the data it holds, children’s names, address, date of birth etc… and so this has all taken a lot of work to get to where I am now.

And where am I now… well, I now have sent an email to my test group and they have started feeding back. Most of it is very positive, not much in the way of suggestions yet. Few bug fixes and a couple of concerns over security that I have addressed, but all well so far. Got a couple of months to finish it all and get it online, so not too bothered at the moment, just getting the ball rolling really.

Now all I have to do is get through the next week and then I finally get to see Demz again for a weekend… really looking forward to that… other than insane amounts of work I’m semi doing that’s about as interesting as my life is at current. Oh, and my sleeping pattern is a big mess, should really sort that out.