February has been a planning and sales month. We’ve been very busy answering an enormous quantity of requests for quotes, one of them being to embed Chamilo into a Joomla site (which we have already done in the past, but not the same way), another one being the building of a multi-sources collaboration system built on Drupal.

Here are a few projects that we would like to present to you:

Advanced PHP Course

We had been very busy preparing an advanced PHP course for Perú, with the idea of uniting the 5 only Zend certified engineers in Peru to teach a 120 hours curriculum. However, even the incredible value, a Flash game and a lot of e-mails sent didn’t help us reach our limit of a minimum of 15 participants. This has taken a very hard toll on us as we expected to be able to play a major role in the improvement of the PHP software engineering quality in this country. Nevermind… we’ll try again later.

National Education Organization

Although we aren’t allowed to give the name here, we built a web application for an education organization that wants to control the progress of the national regions in the implementation of common procedures. The project is not finished yet, but they can already input their values through a pre-mashed Excel spreadsheet that we parse and of which we use the data to print beautiful dynamic graphics of which they can control the access and the additional information. We hope we’ll be able to show that online at some point.

This year has taken a good start for us at BeezNest worldwide, and between writing around 3 times more offers than usually and launching new projects, we have been busy on a series of important missions that I’d like to take the opportunity to mention.

Gallery 2 and slow disk accesses

First of all, we’ve been busy trying to debunk a really well hidden flaw in an install of Gallery 2, whereby the “Comments” feature was so quickly getting spammed that the server could just not handle the number of requests sent by the application and a lot of other applications were slowing down.

Trees management

Second, we’ve been working a lot (in terms of development) on a system to manage… trees! What? Yes, trees (and green areas as well). You know, trees are like medical patients after all. Although they tend to fall less ill, there tends to be a whole lot of trees in our cities. Well, we’ve got one great system to do that, that we are working on with one of our partners. Thanks to the system, you can easily plan lifespans of the trees in a city or a larger entity, pinpoint them on a map, and make sure their illnesses and history is stored on something else than an easily lost/stolen/burnt piece of paper. Of course, you can assign tasks, classify trees by street or park, take photos, specify their height, level of danger, or protection put in place. It’s even compatible with Oracle Locator databases! Contact us if you’re looking for something like that.