Back Into The Groove
It’s been a while since I made a post. Moving into the new house has been quite an undertaking. Replacing sinks, door knobs, unpacking, and fitting a fridge into its undersized home have dominated my time of late. However, things are starting to take shape.
On the development front, yesterday I installed the new version of the Village RV intranet. The main major improvement was the new user privledges system. Originally, user privledges were based on group roles. However, this model didn’t provide enough flexibility.
The new model assigns one of two (could be expanded in the future) roles to a user on a per page basis. Links to pages are not displayed if they do not have accesss to the destination and user roles are checked once the user arrives on a page.
The down side of all of this is that the database gets queried several times for each page. Caching the queries makes quite a performance boost. However, I would still like to optimize the number fo queries further.
….More work to do!
However, as a consolation, I now have high speed Internet via cable connection instead of DSL. It is soooo much faster! ( I had downloads of 70KB/sec with DSL and now have 300-360KB/sec!).
