Leica Florian Robert

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Steel Future — case study

Role: Support and maintenance. Year: 2024.

Website: steelfuture.com

Commesse, the management software a steel processing company wrote in-house in PHP 5 in the early 2000s: support, issues fixed, and the code finally under version control on GitHub, with automatic deploys.

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Management software from another era

Steel Future works with Commesse, management software developed in-house in the early 2000s, in PHP 5. It follows all of the company's work: jobs and drawings, quotes, orders from customers, for raw material and for outsourced processing, schedules, machines, staff and clock-ins. The code sat only on a company server and wasn't under version control.

They called me in to support the software.

Fixing without rewriting

• Code under version control on GitHub.
• Accented letters and the euro sign displaying properly again.
• Readable warning messages, with no codes in place of letters.
• Printouts that open, print and close by themselves, without blocking the page.
• Compatibility with Internet Explorer.
• Fixes in the job forms.
• Updated logos and certifications in the printouts.
• Automatic deploys on every push to GitHub.

More reliable

• More reliable software, without rewriting it.
• Quotes, orders and confirmations printed without a hitch.
• Every change tracked and published by itself.