First day back in work after a week or so off, still a little sleep deprived following a spell of babysitting, but recovering. I now have a matter of days to get together a prototype voting application for the Board of Governors elections, before the ballot organiser takes her leave for the month.

The morning presented a fair few small problems to keep me from this task – everything from bad links embedded in our VLE to a colleague concerned with her first name (rather than her display name) appearing on discussion boards.

By half-four I had the makings of the eligible voter upload feature done – bung a CSV file (obtained from finance – so that’s three departments so far involved) to the server and choose the column containing usernames to have the database populated. At this rate it should be done this time tomorrow and I can begin to abstract it into something usable in future ballots (the original plan, before the short deadline came about).

Hopefully tomorrow I’ll get my crash course. in .NET downstairs – I’m aware of how behind we are with this particular technology despite our knowledge of other environments.