Wherever I May Roam…

Evening Shift
I requested an evening shift from my employer so I can continue my studies in the morning. I got what I wanted but, unfortunately, I’ve been transferred to the Radio Room (BENECO’s call center division of OMD manned by 4 persons) and I’ve been tasked to create a MAIFI, SAIFI, etc. report generator as required by ERC from electric cooperatives.

DSLS – Deferred and Case Manager -Started
So now, I’ve put off further development of DSLS save for bug fixes so I can start with RR Case Manager, a CRM application for our division. Case Manager is based on PHP/MySQL/AJAX which will integrate Billing Queries, Crew Status, Operator Scheduling, GIS of Baguio-Benguet, and Report Generators. I’m sure other electric cooperatives would find this useful once I release this under GPL3. I just need to wait for my boss’ reaction regarding the license.

GIS and Headaches
GIS has been a very complicated topic and most would agree that development of GIS on Open Source applications still proves difficult – even with GRASS and QGIS around. I’ve initially decided that a MapServer would work seamlessly with my Case Manager, but I’ve been having problems with it for a few days now. So I moved the GIS module to the last of my priority list while I continue with my research. KML seems promising, but I’ll need to create an interpreter – which will take me a while. I prefer SVG though since theres a lot of SHP to SVG converters already available, but I need to figure out how to make a shape searchable. PostGIS is ok, but I’ll try it out if SVG-based GIS doesn’t work.

So, there it is… now I need to get back to work!