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MessageBoard, a PHP & MySQL web application with a Doctrine ORM back-end, was launched last Friday, right on deadline. This concludes 7 month-long phases of development.

I think the ingredients essential to delivering this application on-time and within budget were:

• Partnering with a user experience expert who designed the mock ups and wrote the bulk of HTML, CSS, and Javascript
• Doctrine ORM: previously we hand-crafted SQL which was error-prone and occasionally introduced security vulnerabilities.
• Month-long development iterations with a tested, working product delivered at the end of every month.

Looking forward, there is an increasing need at our campus for an Academic Personnel Review web application, which will transform a paper process into a fully online process. The major motivation behind this project is to reduce the massive amount of staff time that goes into coordinating this process in each campus unit.

This application will very likely be built in Java!