The Bird’s Eye View: Issue #5

We’re all just back from a great lunch in the Brazen Head so it’s with a very contented smile that I write today’s Bird’s Eye View. I would recommend a lunch in the Brazen Head to anyone lucky enough to find themselves in the vicinity.

Mossy has been working on delegate registration form changes for SharePoint Europe. This involved upgrading the current forms to allow for group bookings and an easier to use booking process. The 2-for-1 voucher form is currently being designed by an external graphic designer, and once that is complete and approved by SharePoint Europe, Mossy will integrate this into the ESPC system.

UX Design work is continuing and Dovetail and CIS have begun writing content for the new CIS marketing site. We will shortly be working with Vroom who will make recommendations to improve the sites search engine rankings by tweaking the content.

Trevor and Martin burned the midnight oil working with RPA, VIX Technology and the National Transport Authority getting ready for the launch of the Real Time Ireland app and the RTPI site, both of which provide up-to-the-minute information on public transport. As part of this work Trevor and Martin developed a web-based analysis tool that required lines to be drawn between page elements. This led them to discover the wonderful jsPlumb Toolkit which does a very nice job of this type of work!

Using jsPlumb, Martin and Trevor wrote a custom data inspection utility which is shown below.