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<p align="left">After completing my Ph.D. in 1997, I spent a few months getting up to
speed on web site building, which included a small amount of work for the fledgling Oxford
based Internet company Virtual Environments International and the creation of a basic
website for the UK charity BioMedComm. I now run my own <a
href="http://www.winnershtriangle.com/w/" target="_blank">software development company</a>.</p>
<p align="left">In September 1997 I began work as a Computer Officer in the University of
Essex Computing Service. While this was obviously quite a significant career change from
being a tomato biotechnologist, I soon found my feet. At Essex I was responsible for a
number of things, from creating user documentation to running the centrally managed web
servers. Details of some of the projects I undertook at Essex are shown below:</p>
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<td align="left" vAlign="top" width="220"><a href="http://www2.essex.ac.uk/search/"><img
src="images/showcase_essex_1.png" alt="Essex Site Server Search facility" border="0"
width="240" height="173"></a><p> </td>
<td align="left" vAlign="top" width="*"><p align="left"><a
href="http://www2.essex.ac.uk/search/">Improved Search facility</a></p>
<p>In common with most other UK academic institutions, the University of Essex has a large
number of web documents spread over a number of web servers running on different
combinations of server software and operating system.</p>
<p>The Search facility of Microsoft Site Server 3.0 was used to provide a single search
facility, which is accessible from all of the main University web pages. The search
facility is able to index web pages, as well as the Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat
documents found on the site.</p>
<p>The front end to the Search facility was written in Visual Basic (Scripting Edition)
using Active Server Pages technology.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue21/webwatch/">article</a> describing the
importance of internal search engines is available.</p>
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<td align="left" vAlign="top"><p align="right"><a href="http://www2.essex.ac.uk/courses/"><img
src="images/showcase_essex_2.png"
alt="The web front end allows fast and easy searching of the details from over 1500 courses"
border="0" width="240" height="173"></a></p>
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alt="Perl 5 was used to convert course details to RTF files, which can be incorporated into departmental publications"
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<td align="left" vAlign="top"><p align="left"><a href="http://www2.essex.ac.uk/courses/">Online
Course Catalogue</a></p>
<p align="left">The Online Course Catalogue was an experiment to investigate the potential
benefits in moving essential administrative information onto the Internet. The Course
Catalogue is a centrally managed database that contains information about all the
undergraduate and short courses run by the University. A web based front end to the
database information was developed which allows prospective and current students the
ability to search and view course details.</p>
<p align="left">The web front end to the catalogue was written in Visual Basic (Scripting
Edition) using Active Server Pages technology, with the Site Server Search facility
providing rapid searching of course details.</p>
<p align="left">Back end and administrative features of the course catalogue were written
using Visual Basic 6 and Perl 5 (for Windows NT).</td>
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<td align="left" vAlign="top" width="200"><img src="images/showcase_essex_3.png"
alt="Private sector accommodation database" border="0" width="240" height="173"><p> </td>
<td align="left" vAlign="top">Private sector accommodation database<p>As with most other
UK academic institutions, a large proportion of students studying at the University live
in accommodation rented from the private sector.</p>
<p>Universities normally maintain lists of suitable accommodation available in the local
area. However, preparing the lists for students is normally a time consuming and costly
process. By moving the list onto the University Intranet, students can more easily search
for suitable accommodation, and the Accommodation Office can devote less resources to
providing printed copies of the list.</td>
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alt="Internal telephone and e-mail directory" border="0" width="240" height="171"></td>
<td align="left" vAlign="top"><a href="http://www2.essex.ac.uk/phonebook/">Internal
telephone and E-mail Directory</a><p>Migration of email systems to Microsoft Exchange
allowed the introduction of a successor to the basic X500 phone book search facility.</p>
<p>The new phonebook was written using Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI) to
communicate with Microsoft Exchange using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).</p>
<p>Additional features of the phone book (such as a directory style listing of entries*)
was created using Perl 5 (for Windows NT)</p>
<p>*No longer accessible on the web</td>
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