I’ve recently begun to tackle the last major milestone in the initial development cycle of this software I’m working on - that of reporting. It’s something that all good business intelligence applications have, and is arguably one of the most important parts of the system. I mean, imagine if you could use a system but not print anything from it? No records, no reports, no anything? It would seem rather crippled, wouldn’t it?
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Okay, lots of stuff all at once. That’s sort of how it goes, though, isn’t it?

So, for the longest time - all semester in fact - I’ve been trying to teach my computer classes without the benefit of computers. Oh how much fun that is. Anyway, I’ve been getting annoyed, as have my students, for the lack of computers in the labs, and GTTI listened! It’s more likely actually that they were aware of the problem well ahead of time and it just took six months to acquire the boxen. It’s pretty sick, actually - I’ll have to upload some pics. All the computers are new Dells that were shipped here from Ireland. All flat screen, dual-core Pentium 4s. Totally unnecessary firepower for the kind of work they’ll be requested to do, but hey, why not? And my counterpart at GTTI (Mr. B) is taking my recommendations on getting voltage regulators for all the systems, as well as listening to other recommendations about routers, firewalls, anti-virus techniques… things are looking up!
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