Crescendo has been mostly done since it's roll out in July though there were still some non-critical features that hadn't been implemented yet. I've been on and off the project for months and the other day finished adding the last of them. I'm quite pleased at how this project has been almost bug free since it's release and how well accepted it is with the group of users. One of the new features I added was the ability to form-fill PDF files and store a history of the files generated. This is used for contracts. The original document is created in MS Word, exported to PDF, then brought into Adobe Acrobat to have form fields laid on top. Then it is brought into Crescendo and it just works. The trouble is that the PDF library I used to form-fill and merge the FDF with the PDF costs $2500 USD for unlimited royalty free distribution. I've looked at all the free ones and they don't do what I need. Since the software has to work offline I couldn't just buy a 1 server version. Once the client has purchased the license then I'll release version 1.1.0 of Crescendo. 1.0.0 had one of the two major modules complete and the second mostly completed. Sometime this year I think we'll be adding a 3rd major module to the system and when it's fully functional and implemented it will become 1.2.0 Well I hope this entry didn't put you to sleep!
Crescendo - feature complete
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Working from his home office in Toronto,
Ryan de Laplante can be found developing software in
Java by day, and obsessing with technology by night.
Ryan has been designing and writing software for
IJW since 1998 and is very passionate about his work.
