Amazon.com Widgets

This week I was working on our “media” section and I’ve learned a few things. Since I don’t work with PHP 100% of my time there are still lots of things that I could do if I only knew more.  Its cool when I have a need and then do a bit of searching only to discover that its much easier than I thought.

One of the “fun” things I’m working on is dealing with the BlackBerry. My company is in the process of rolling out all BlackBerry phones in order to allow our employees (remote account managers, etc.) the ability to get their corporate mail directly on their phone and to access internally secured information. Right now remote users have to use their VPN and many don’t like to do it because its too much of a hassle. It would be much less of a hassle if only they’d use it more often!

Anyway, for the BlackBerry, I have several Domino applications that allow me to access our other systems and send back simple HTML. I’m going to work on a little system this morning that will help me organize the links to the various systems so I can easily create a “dashboard” or “launchpad” for the BlackBerry users.

The holidays are just around the corner and I’m really looking forward to seeing my family.  I’ve not been doing it over the last few years, but this year I hope to take lots of photos. Let see if I can remember to take my camera.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment. Login »