Thomas Penwell

Lately, I've been working on Ross Bradshaw's back end of his tech scheduling system. I recently learned about a technique called AJAX which is a name given to the javascript interface for sending/receiving data for a web page. First and most important, using AJAX techniques will signifiantly make the system faster to load things. Second, applying this technique elimiates the need to use an IFRAME to send and receive data and gets rid of the annoying clique sound you near when the web browser navigates to a new page. I also used the AJAX techniques to eliminate some the windows that use popups. For example when myself or Ross were creating a new service call in the system, it will now come up in a new "Tab" interface instead of a popup. I had coded a custom javascript that allows it to add and remove tabs as needed.

Now I just need to add a mechanism for loading changes made by other users on the fly. (Ultimate goal here is to make it so the users never need to hit their 'refresh' button.)

Ross's website is at http://www.computersolutionsmt.com