The Projects… System2

I've been delving myself into webdevelopment lately. a LOT. Thats all I've realy been doing aside from the occasional rip n' tear across the state on my bike. I've been trying to get work lined up for Zippy and Myself. Here is what I've conjured up so far.

Irl Robinson, Custom Golf Club Maker
Irl has been a customer of mine for a while now, I think it's been a year and a half or so. He wants to change pace with his website and put it out on the market moving more towards an advertisement then an educational tool. When I first took this project on I setup his site with a lot of information about him and the process of making custom clubs. I personaly didn't know anything about golfing or golf clubs at the time but feel quite knowledgable now. A year and some change later, now that his site which has remained relatively static is starting to show some age so we are upgrading into mainstream.

Most custom club sites are based on one of two things. 1) cheap shit. or 2) THE MAN to build it. I'm pushing Irl's renovation towards simply explaining the simple benefits of owning your own custom set no matter your skill level just so long as you have a golf swing. Costs less then lots of name brands, so on and so forth. Hopefully tying that & cross advertising with some of his bigger pals, suppliers, and pro-golfers we shouldn't have a difficult time making the change. I'll post when updates are uploaded.

Tony Bullock, Gospel Music Singer
Tony Bullock, T&M Electronics
Tony just got ahold of my through a business connection of his. He wants to organize all his forms of media: radio, newspaper, tv, and now Website to advertise a characture that represents his store in Clinton, MO to get people curious to come in and check around a bit. I'm waiting on material and organization for the store's site.

He also rolled in his old gospel music site. He's interested in getting it fabbed up to todays standards. I recovered it from mychurch.com I believe. We will be working on that as a side project as it doesn't provide revenue or have much reason to require consuming much revenue.

Paul Whitlow, Medicare Supplement Research Service
:::: This will be a long story ::::
About a year and a half to two years ago I ran into Paul working out of his Office on the square with papers strewn EVERYWHERE. He had one or two employees and a paper archiving system that drove em nuts. I mentioned I could probably make a system that would streamline it all and do most of the work for him given the time and resources. It started out with a simple brain storm of what absolutely had to be done to make everything work. The process was a relatively simple process of tracking a customers information through the process of starting as a lead and ending up as a new insurance customer *if all went well*. The base system didn't take a month to get working.
The project got interesting and completely clusterfucked when Paul realized that what was created was pretty much just the bare bones of what COULD be made. Next there was a system for this, a system for that, a system for the systems, and a system for the systems systems. Eventualy things started to not cooperate with each other very well. I hadn't coded it very well and was to busy making the next addition to go back to the first and figure out what wasn't going right (which was probably everything). heh. Anyway. We somehow made a transition from a simple computer program (web based) to keep track of where a customer was in the processing to having an automated system for every square inch of user interactivity with the business. We had software to dial numbers that were automaticly delivered to the dialers. We had software to automaticly inform specific users to call their customers back and find out whats up. We had a system for printing birthday cards at the beginning of the month that never realy even got used. To many things to even begin to list. But it all didn't like to work super sstreamline in the end.
Eventualy the base system with a few nice mods is what ended up being used after I went on vacation for the summer. It was pitiful. Paul however was thoroughly pricked by the bug of automation and simplification through complication. lol. He hired another man to start developing an piece of software to run on pc's individualy. For the 4 months I was on vacation they came up with a lot of things that didn't work, and even less that did.
Paul cought wind that I was back in town and developing again so he got ahold of me and asked if I would take over this other guys project. I ended up telling him I wasn't going to continue Levi's project nor was I going to recover my previous project. There is absoultely no use in starting with something you have to figure out how to fix before you can even get anywhere with it. Instead, I have once again started at ground zero. This time however, I have explicit instructions to have fun with it and automate everything I wish to automate. Of course since he has gotten over his initial issues with paper he's grown a little. Now there is a whole new world of entertaining things to work with. He's got 24+ line autodialers looking to get another T1, he's got reminder-dialers for those pesky callbacks, a whole new problem with the Federal Do Not Call List and the laws pertaining to that, a small handful of employees wishing for automated headsets and lead orginization, thermal printers for automatic printing of mailing information, and muuuuuch more. I've nearly used up a notebook so far just jotting down notes. I havn't realy got to deep into hacking it up yet.

My entertaining vantage point comes in around here. I already provide Paul with most of his technology, he never realy left the systems we made when we started going paperless. I messed up the first time and see a few huge keys I'm following this time. #1) It all has to be well thought out. None of this going back and forth crap. I'll re-code sections if it gets at all crappy. #2) I'm not developing this to fit JUST his situation. I'm doing my best to make this work with alternative auto-dialers, printers, servers, etc. I love to do this shit for people so I don't charge much, or maybe I just don't log my hours. lol. Either way I want to be able to see it get put to use in an entirely different enviornment. Maybe a non-profit orginization or something. I don't know.
So far I have worked out getting most of the process on paper. It's taking every sub-process of every sub-process and sub-processing it out without getting machine, information, or business specific that I'm still working on. I started v2 working with OOP not that long ago and am absolutely loving it. Why I wasn't slapped in the face with objects much earlier on I DO NOT KNOW although I wish I was. Talk about instantly making everything easier, more secure, simpler, easier to get others to help you with, easier to reuse the code.. bah. I'm kindof agrivated I didn't see that before. I'm not coding 100% oop but I'm working that way. It shouldn't be to awfuly far on the horizon before I've got it all figured out. In the mean time I'll keep jotting down note after note. w00t.

*counts*
yeah. I've only written ~500 lines of shizzle so far. But I'm working on my second notebook.. It helps.