September 2014 In Brief

9044. Continued the implementation of the new MoneyBooks features began last month in the Payroll module (current-day-due-task prompting and so on).

9055. Implemented the MoneyBooks Payroll 2.1 revision to cater for client’s requirements, importing loan deduction data from EPPMS.

9066. Due to spam hitting our website mail server, often more than 100 junk mail in 24 hours, we enabled more of cPanel’s spam-fighting tools and set up an initial “white” list of safe email sources.

9081. Completed implementing the MoneyBooks revision in the remaining three modules (EM, AP, FA).

9092. Implemented Twitter integration on the blog page of our website.

9114. Continue implementing social networking buttons and recent font changes on more website pages, giving them a “face-lift.”

9151. Revised more website pages and uploaded the recently revised pages. Completed the Labelwriter 7.91 revision and emailed it to the client.

9173. Checked to see if ftp could be used with Microsoft’s OneDrive “cloud” storage service, but this appears not yet possible. Instead they have an app that installs on the desktop and phone, for synchronizing files, and also the https://onedrive.live.com website for managing uploaded files.

9195. Completed and emailed an EPPMS database update to assign missing bank codes to active employees based on their pay points.

9232. Learned about a NITDA-sponsored software development competition and decided to register. The competition tagged e-Solve, the 1st National Software Development competition, open to local software developers. This year’s theme is on health and education solutions, so our entry is based on our Medstar software.

9243. Continued composing the NITDA competition entry, getting to compiling the screen shots of Medstar.

9254. Completed the Medstar documentation and uploaded it to the NITDA e-Solve website, completing our competition entry ahead of the Saturday, September 27 closing date.

9291. The open-source Audacity application crashed just after an audio recording and this led to our learning how to merge binary files using PowerBuilder. After a crash, Audacity leaves .AU sound files in a temporary directory, one for about 6 seconds of recording. Merge them together and import into Audacity and you now have the complete recording intact.