So, what
have I been working on for the past few weeks you ask? As you might know,
I have been working as part of the Software Development team within the CTS
(Communications and Technical Services) department. The team is currently
made up of two others and myself with a fourth scheduled to return in a couple
months. In the past, the team has been significantly smaller (one person
for a couple years), so having four developers is allowing for some real
progress above and beyond the "maintenance mode."
Many other departments
help support the work of Bible translation in PNG as well: auto shop, aviation,
construction and maintenance, medical clinic, CTS (phone, internet, etc.),
finance, employment, post office, print shop, security, shipping, store,
primary and high school. All of these departments have different software
in place to manage the day to day tasks that they need to accomplish. We
support all of the existing programs and make sure that things continue to run
correctly.
My first week
was spent reading documents and learning the technology that is being used.
I’ve enjoyed contributing to the current projects. For the past two weeks I
have been working on an exciting project: we are writing a program that will
replace all of the various segmented programs on centre and run all departments
through one centralized web application. It has the potential to solve a
lot of the inefficiencies between departments. For us geeks, this is very
exciting :) For those interested in techie details, we are building an
ASP.NET web application using the XAF framework from DevExpress.
It feels
great to be serving with the team and using the skills God has given us!
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| Hard at work at my desk |
“So,
whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”
1 Corinthians 10:31
