I spent last night working on a client’s Conference System Software. This is an annual ritual that usually involves one or two nights work this time of year.
I wrote the print system for a web based conference registration system about four years ago for them. Each year they tend to redesign the database, and alter other portions of the infrastructure, which ends up requiring some changes.
Last year I modified it so that all data access was done with consistently named stored procs, so this time all I had to do was some minor hand holding with one of their developers to refresh their memory on what stored procedures drove the process.
We did overall the names of all the components and the configuration files from the name of the conference to a more generic name, since this year they will be doing several conferences and under different names.
I also created a long overdue installation routine, so know they can put the install on a USB Flash Drive, plug it into a new workstation and run install, follow the instructions, and they have a new registration workstation.
Overall it was a very productive six hour stint. Of course the app was written in VB6 and it’s been almost a year since I spent anytime with it. It was a nice refresher.
