Although not in the relaxed way I’d have wanted, but my dissertation project has now been handed in! After a week of frantic, Red Bull and Relentless -induced coding and writing, 9,500 words of write-up and 14,500 (ish) lines of PHP, SQL, XHTML and CSS are complete

The overall system is a distributable web-based resource booking system, mainly aimed at schools/colleges/universities, but it’s customisable enough to be used in pretty much any environment. Admin users can create slots, locations, categories and resources and then users can create bookings.

As it’s a distributable project (released under the Mozilla Public License – Wikipedia – legal text), if anyone can actually use the project, let me know and I’ll get a copy to you. Only requirements are a database server and an LDAP (or Microsoft Active Directory) server, but most networks should have these. I’ve only tested the app with OpenLDAP and MySQL/PostgreSQL, but in theory it should work on other platforms.

Even if you’re not able to test the system personally, but feel free to suggest it to bosses, managers etc. The existing public code trunk has been updated and distributable archives have been uploaded to the OpenBooking Google Code account. I’ll be getting a full-featured homepage with forum and wiki running in the next week or so