It’s an exciting and sad time as many of you are approaching the end of your placements.  Our Guest Blogger at Trigger, Aaron updates us with his experiences so far.  Read onto find out what he has been up to in the past few months……

“Believe it or not, in the last few months I have been doing a lot of development work in several different areas of the business.

The main project that I have been working on for a while now is developing our own ‘wallboard’, well plural, we are going to have quite a few. We started out by using a website called Geckoboard. Geckoboard is a website which allows you to have dashboards which display information from various different systems etc in the form of widgets. Geckoboard comes with a lot of standard widgets which can be useful but some widgets are just not specific enough for our needs. I went straight in and started developing from scratch, a script which can be plugged into the Geckoboard to display pie charts, numbers, text etc from the systems we use. At the moment the company utilises many pieces of software to store information on projects, opportunities, invoices, support tickets and much more, but the stats from these are not being shown anywhere. My script allows you to pass a given format in and relevant attributes to support this format (depending on what is required for each).

As well as finishing up on the Geckoboard and getting the stats up on some large screens around the office, I am going to be doing some Flex shadowing and working with a few people around the office to increase my skills base. I will be on Support Development all the way to the end of my placement but have the opportunity to move away quite freely when required, for when I want to do Flex, for example, or my continuation with PHP. Within Trigger we have an application range which is for engagement purposes, I have slowly been taking over the setup etc of these from one of the QA managers who has been doing these for years now, there is lots of detail within the processes but learning of all of this is extremely beneficial to myself when/if I come back.

If you have any questions regarding my Geckoboard script or anything else you want to mention, go ahead and add a comment!

Will have a final couple of updates coming up shortly, as I am into my last few months within Trigger (The lucky people at Trigger have chosen to keep me on for an extra month though so my time has been extended). There will probably be one mid May after I come back from Tenerife and one at the end of my placement

You can find out more from Aaron, as well as our other Guest Bloggers over the coming year!

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