Well, another nice day in the office today… just finalised the last minute touches on our asset management system solution, that is due for a demo anytime now. very happy with the results so far.

One of our clients has approached us about a month ago to develop a CHEP pallet management system for their organisation and now we demo it to them.

this is our first demo to the stakeholders of the project and I am really excited to get their feedback on our hard work. enough talking… this time I am including a screenshot of couple of pages of the application…

This screenshot is from the administration system.
showing the stocktake list that are entered from deferent sites.

As you can see, Its a web based pallet management system. the application if fully Ajaxified which makes it easy to use and operate.

I have also included this screenshot from the site portal showing the process of sending pallets from Sydney location to another CHEP depo.

this is by far one of the nicest applications I have ever worked on. it uses few different technologies and tools.
We used Microsoft Queue Messaging System to place a job to generate the export files to sent to CHEP for invoicing and we used Telerik Reporting component to generate the report needed by management.

well, this application might be up and running now, but we are working on some really nice dashboard tools the aim is to provide a way for the administrator to build their dashboard by selecting the type of chart and “plug-in” the parameters to configure the chart.

once that done, I will definitely keep you posted…

for now, I am out. Have fun and code well…

LocalLens is an online business directory built around the concept of building communities and focusing on offering a multitude of features to businesses. Enough on the plug, lets talk about the technology…

It might look like just another business directory. However, what’s under the hood what really makes it tick for me.

I have been contributing to this project for just over 6 months now. My main role is to build the architecture and the framework to be as flexible, robust and functional as possible, yet still maintain best coding practises and use well defined development patterns.

So, what under the hood?

Database Server: MS SQL 2008 as data storage
Language and frameworks: c#, .Net 3.5, Linq, Web Services, JSON
ORM: LLBLGEN as our database abstraction layer 
Logging: log4net as our logging platform
UI & Reporting Tools: Telerik AJAX .Net Controls
Search Tool: linq to lucene, lucene.net
Patterns Used: Singleton, Provider, DDD, TDD

locallens is built using 4 tires that work together to bring the website to life, allowing for further growth and integration with other systems.

An example would be to extend the businesses and events to an iPhone application that would serve the data straight out of the website to the iphone app, without any further development.

I will spend more time in another post talking about some techniques that I have useful in using LLBLGEN as our ORM platform in multi-tired web applications.

for now, if you like to have a look at the website and give me a feedback that would be great.

locallens.com.au (keep in mind, its currently in RC1 and not all the content there yet)