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Isadore – Goes web-based and Object Oriented

Steve — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:59:39 +0000

After prototyping in Delphi, I have chosen to move to a web-based deployment of Isadore™.

Based on generic object classes for tables/databases/pages etc I am creating an object-oriented architecture which can be reused for other applications.

This enhances Isadores modula nature and will ensure platform agnosticism via PHP.

Database agnosticism is maintained by classes that are non database-specific, these can be inherited into per-database versions for compatibility.

Isadore™ Alpha1 underway

Steve — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:53:41 +0000

Snapshot showing development version displaying Events page

Development of the Isadore application is coming along slowly, I realised that the colour scheme wasn’t consistent and so have redrawn the glyphs.

The layout is similar to that in the Microsoft™ System Center™ suite of applications, I am hoping that usage will be fairly intuitive.

Not sure whether to use webbrowser for the top menu (quick links) or a standard icon-driven interface.

ITIL – All about IT

Steve — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:51:13 +0000

ITIL™ is a best-practice framework from the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). It provides a framework for managing IT systems and infrastructures.

The ITIL articles are found at stevesutton.net/itil , which is a work in progress and aims to provide practical examples of IT management using ITIL™.

Google ITIL should you wish to find out the general concepts.

Isadore™ – History of the name

Steve — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:36:36 +0000

Isidore of Seville is the Patron saint of Computers, Isadore™ is a derivation of this.

Above all else, it is simply a unique name that can be attributed to this product!

Isadore™ – Conception

Steve — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:26:49 +0000

Isadore is my current software development project.

It is a feature rich ITIL™-based IT Management suite encompassing such features:

Infrastructure Capacity Planning
Product Life-cycle management
Availability management
Product portfolio management
Licence tracking
Change and Release Manageent

I am developing this on my own, so progress is relatively slow. The system is being developed in Borland Delphi and aims to be database agnostic. (I am prototyping using AccessDB [yuck] but serious development will support Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL. I expect to release the whole system using an embedded MySQL deployment.

If you are interested in this product PLEASE get in touch, if you are interested in getting involved please let me know!