Coding JustRosters – Day 1 – Setting up CakePHP

From this week I will be starting a multi-part series on the coding of JustRosters, touching specifically on the challenges and lessons learnt throughout the experience. Our journey starts on a February afternoon (02/02/2009) at 3pm. The first task that needed to be completed was the installation of a basic CakePHP install.

Installing CakePHP is quite [...]

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JustRosters – Launched and taking sign ups!

Just a quick post to let everyone know Marvel Internet Group’s first in-house web start-up, JustRosters, has officially launched!
JustRosters is a web application developed to make the creation and distribution of staff rosters easier, faster and more accurate. For a full list of features and a free trial, head over the [...]

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Part 5.5 – Educating clients on how to use a new application

Users on free trials will quickly dismiss an application when they are presented with a problem they cannot figure out for themselves. They do this because the only investment they have made by using a free trial is time, and the thought wasting more time is too much for most.
For most [...]

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Customer service email management with Gmail

Customer service email management can often be problematic for companies that offer email based support for their clients. Marvel Internet Group is responsible for handling customer service email messages of some applications that we have developed for clients. One such application has over 1400 user’s support request to manage; we do this with just two [...]

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Part 5: Building the front-end website

It is about 1month since we started building JustRosters, and what a month it has been! Paul, Alan and I are working on it full time at the moment, and hope to have it complete launched in around 2weeks. The original plan shows building the front-end website as step 6, but in [...]

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