Many of the powerful web-based applications that were developed so rapidly and at such low cost by my group at Ruppman quickly caught the attention of other departments. Accounting had been trying to implement technology to automatically track employee labor, and had been burned by their experience with an expensive and unsuitable vendor product. They asked us if we could implement a solution. We quickly put together a system that kept increments of time and the codes identifying tasks in a PostgresSql database on a Linux server. They can also view the results in a familiar time-sheet format.
Supervisors can then review and approve the entries.
Once a week, a cron job computes overtime and sends a report of the approved records to accounting, where they are imported into the JD Edwards accounting software. Log Managing all of these projects and moving them from development server to production soon became a confusing task. The development manager, as we call it, reads a configuration file on the development server which keeps a list of projects, source files and destination locations for publication. It then allows the user to view projects, publish files from the projects, and interface to version control. Project Development Manager Keeping Current Keeping daemons and applications up to date on a production server is an important part of security and standards adherence.