Funnel of Love

Greetings All,

We recently dropped Mantis and the use of our own pCal and adopted SugarCRM. This contact management software includes its own bug tracker along with providing all the CRM features one could dream of. It is just easier for us to have everything in one central location (software) then using separate tools. Say hello to the new and rm -rf to the old.

How's the business:
Thanks for asking. We just landed an exciting job for Vaupell, who is a large manufacturing company with offices throughout the US. The branch we are working with specializes in rapid prototyping, stereo lithography and short run production. They also have a full machine shop for mold production. We are building an online quoting application that will allow users to upload .STL CAD/CAM files, select material type, finish and delivery time, then create a PO. Woah, cool right. Well that's not even the half of it. We've just started the database design and will be revealing more about this project in the coming posts.

TechTrax, what is that?
We should have our first articles in TechTrax, an online E-Zine next month, March. Ben, ProjectSkyLine's chief engineer is going to be writing a paper about common web-based application security problems which includes plenty of sample code.

RSVP Mash up:
Our RSVP software aka pRSV aka Project-Contact is nearing prime time. We've recently constructed our postcards that will be used in targeted mailings. We will also be doing a round of Google PPC advertising to coincide with the February release. We are very excited to be launching our first product. Project-Contact has some great features:

• Events created are given a unique URL
• Customization of events via HTML, color changes and company logo
• Events can have multiple sessions allowing users to choose whichever they please
• Event creator can export event data directly into Excel
• Attendees can import the event directly into Google & Yahoo calendars
• Plus a whole lot more
• Project-Contact Homepage

Procedurally Porting To Object Oriented (PPTOO, heh):
We've begun porting all our procedural PHP 4 & 5 code to OOPHP 5. So far we are very happy
with the outcome, which is making the code much more readable and actually creating less overhead in the main files, moving much of the logic to the library or support files.

We've been super busy working with some new clients on some possible great projects. Stay tuned for more!

- psl