BLAG Ramblings of a crazy old fool

In-House Development

Don't ever try this if you work in education. Well, I take that back. Don't try this if someone above you would shit biscuits if you ran an unauthorized webserver on a workstation in your building.

It's not that I deliberately antagonize our network staff, its just more like...testing borders? Anyway, in two days I learned ASP, Access, and IIS; and created a full-featured web application solution to solve a problem at our building.

Network did not like this solution. At all. eventually they got overruled by the IT Manager, because none of them could create a better solution in the time he gave them (which was what, like 4 hours?). Anyway I would have preferred to create in PHP/SQL and sit it on the linux box, but there's no way I could ever touch that.

Anyway, in the end we now have a solution to our problem. However, I won't go on another Dell rant here, but suffice to say that the workstation I put this on got /.'d by ~40 users. Still dunno how that's possible. We're in week one of debug/live testing internally, and no major problems so far now that it's on a different box. I'll add a link to the code whenever I get around to uploading it.