The rewrite was cancelled.
This is in part because of cost, and also because the client involved are, in the long term, including the functionality in their SAP "solution".
I could rant for several megabytes about how this is a silly desicion, but it was made so far above my head I can't even see it from here. Seems like that's always the case when SAP is involved.
So, after spending roughly €20.000 on something it's being scrapped, and some SAP consultant will implement it (sort of, anyway) in their way, and bill €1.000.000. Yep, makes perfect business sense for…
One thing I've learned over the last few months is that nothing happens quickly or easily in a company of over 125.000 people.
My rewrite effort has been bogged down in security certifications and other time-consuming stuff, so I've been unable to sit down and do much actual code.
In stead, I've been reading Modern Perl again, and trying to wrap my head around PCI security standards compliance, and reading a whole stack of blogs and books about Perl…
I've been so busy doing Actual Work that I've forgotten to write about doing it!
Now that a lot of the modules I'll be using are more or less in place, including my new centralized security where "everything" will go to get permission to do "anything", it's time to start sowing the modified modules together in Catalyst.
Or is it?
I try to code by "Make a plan, and stick to it, unless it sucks."
Figuring out if a solution sucks is part of that, so I've taken a long, hard look at my Catalyst choice here.
Did I really pick Catalyst because it's the best tool…
Yesterday I decided to stay with MySQL, but today I face something a little more creative: What should the data model look like?
So far today I've collected a list of all the information I would like to store, and marked out all the information that is currently stored. It doesn't look like I have to add a lot of information, but I'm certainly changing how it's stored.
In the current version of the application a whole lot of the information is stored in static configuration files.
/var/www/users/demonen/index.html
Before I let my enthusiasm overpower me and jump into this rewrite with all it's worth, I have to take a long and hard look at what technologies are being used, and what I want to replace them with.
Swapping out Class::DBI with DBIx::Class is an easy choice, and I'll get back to that in a later post, but what of the engine behind it?
Currently, the whole thing is built on MySQL, but during the lifespan of this fairly complex CRM application I have seen some of the limitat…
I'm just a lowly software developer in a huuuuuge company, and I try to do my part.
Cog in the machine!