Programming Pauls of Wisdom

This is what an IT Manager is all about

http://random.noflashlight.com/scripts/dominos.py
This is a simple script that visits dominos web site and lets you know when the pizza is ordered, when it is in the oven, when it is on its way etc

The script is simple, the web site behind the script is also simple.
The amount of work involved in making it possible to write that web site is immense - and that is the defintion of a IT managers job - change the business, the processes, the infrastructure so we can tell our customers when their pizza has gone into the oven.

The things that would need to change are unified ordering system (or number at least), terminals at the point of oven entrance, ordering system that displays in oven and in call centre miles away.
A distributed messaging system based on a single unique order number sounds feasible, but there is a lot of 'legacy' to deal with there.

SO yes, hats off to dominos IT manager. Make the business improvement look simple.

posted by paul @ 3:28 AM