avm's Journal: More PHP/Postgres wibblings

Well, work on the DMS addons has pretty much stifled...workload has taken a sudden jump as a coworker has decided to just not show 3 Saturdays in a row, and now has not turned up Monday or today either. Now that's just bloody fantastic..grr.

Got tired of writing customer's return authorisations in a book, and started coding a replacement in PHP, stuffing the data in a Postgres table. Messed about some with sequences too...nifty feature, that. This would be something else to add to the DMS addons...especially if customers could fill in the form and request a return authorisation (with approval/denial by me/someone else of course). The whole object of this system is to save me work, of course, and the more typing the customers can do, the longer my hands will survive without carpal tunnel syndrome.

Talked to my manager about some of this stuff...I'm still trying to coax him to move our website to a colo'd Linux/BSD machine, rather than the shared LAME NT box it's currently on.