Hi,
On the "different" side I recall a "Feed The Fish" application.
The Sales department got a goldfish bowl and had problems remembering to feed
the fish. The application required that you signed off on feeding the fish,
and if this was not done the Sales Department got notified, followed by the
Sales Manager and finally the CEO :-)
The CEO had me turn the notifications off eventually, and some time later the
fish died :-(
Another one was the "Day Labourers as Garbage Collectors" application. The
single person using the application called each of the Garbage Collector
Companies each day to understand their need for the following day, including
blacklisting of individuals if something did not work out. It produced salary
reports and invoices for some 50 people, and was written in 16 hours. They
used a server with flat file database in "Demo" mode, which meant a limit of
the flat file size for each form. I went there once a year to clear out
records so they could continue their work.
The first thing I built at a customer site in 1995 was a call centre telephony
integration which tracked who was logged in to the switch and who was logged
in to Remedy.
It included screen-pop on incoming calls, answer-button, signing in/out of the
switch and a list of logged in users and their status.
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> I thought I would start a side topic from the "how fast could that be?"
> thread. We have seen more and more "out of the box ITSM" installs in
> recent years and custom development appears to be less prevalent. Many of
> us started out building anything and everything under the sun.
>
> For me, I had just switch from working in an aerospace fabrication shop to
> my first IT job at a help desk. About 6 months in I became very interested
> in what else Remedy could do. As I learned more about what Remedy could do
> I really wished we would of had it at the job I had left.
>
> So with that my first app was one geared around running a fab shop. The
> app tracked customers, jobs/parts, equipment and staff. It could associate
> what machine a part is in and who is working on it. Also it could show the
> status of a machine so planners didn't schedule a job in a machine that was
> down for maintenance. Also you could not schedule machinists to a job if
> they were on vacation.
>
> It probably also had things like an email to the worker when a job/part was
> assigned to them. I have been trying to find the definition in recent
> years. I am sure I would get a kick out of how I built things back then.
>
> Jason
>
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