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Custom Applications

Custom Applications. For Libraries. Joshua Zehner. Who am I?. Name: Joshua Zehner Occupation: Mobile Software Engineer, ExactTarget School: Purdue University, Computer Science Library: Former Assistant System Admin at Fulton County Public Library Hobby: Learning new technologies.

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Custom Applications

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  1. Custom Applications For Libraries Joshua Zehner

  2. Who am I? • Name: Joshua Zehner • Occupation: Mobile Software Engineer, ExactTarget • School: Purdue University, Computer Science • Library: Former Assistant System Admin at Fulton County Public Library • Hobby:Learning new technologies

  3. Objective • What is a custom app • Why custom apps • Details about development

  4. So what is a custom application • A custom application is a piece of software developed to complete a specific task for a business or user. Can be anything from a web application, full fledged desktop application or even a mobile app.

  5. The Custom App Investment

  6. How I have used custom apps • Fulton county public library • Summer reading program • Allowed all staff at FCPL to participate in data collection • Improved amount of time it took to formulate reports • Better tracking of prizes • Data was shared across all branches • ILL item tracking • Replaced an Excel sheet • One click weekly reports for state library

  7. Custom Apps Development

  8. Initial thoughts • Not an easy task • But lots of help available • Will take time to learn • Very frustrating at times • Huge rewards when you figure it out Yes! I am invincible!

  9. Software Stack • Frontend • Client application • Web page • Middleware • Service that collects data from frontend and gives to backend • Backend • Usually a database

  10. Software Options Frontend Backend

  11. So many options… • Choose a stack • Free and easy stack (Beginner) • jQuery, PHP, MySQL • Free and harder stack (Intermediate) • AngularJS, node.js, MongoDB • Micro$oft stack (Advanced) • WPF, WebAPI, SQL Server Or mix and match These are more common stacks, but there are many many more options available.

  12. What can you do with this technologies? • Make very awesome web applications. • Database stored • Run reports, reuse data, single location, create stats • Fully customized to your needs • Can be accessed at different levels • Make portions of the data viewable or updatable by your patrons

  13. Tools of the trade – Design

  14. Tools of the trade – Programming • JetBrain’sWebStorm • Advanced IDE focused on web technologies • Notepad++ • Very basic text editor that has nice syntax highlighting • Microsoft Visual Studio • Very advanced IDE that is more focused on .NET programming • Adobe Brackets • New free IDE focused on web development

  15. Tools of the trade – Server tech • Web server • While developing, you can just use your own PC. • MAMP or WAMP • Production run of app • Hosted on server or if feeling really daring, AWS or Azure

  16. Demo Fulton county public library summer reading program

  17. FCPL SRP • HTML & CSS • Presentation layer • Javascript • Presentation layer logic • PHP • Server side processing • MySql • Log term storage

  18. Lets code! • Code can be found at https://github.com/jzehner/litd2014

  19. Resources • Codecademy • w3schools • Stack Overflow • Google

  20. Questions Name: Joshua Zehner Email: joshzehner@gmail.com

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