Achievement Unlocked: Beta Test
Yesterday evening has been the culmination of 2 months of work on a brand-new course registration system to be used by Northside College Prep. This system will be used by student to register for colloquium and the new special X/Y blocks. In order to implement the system, I used a Drupal backend and added more and more modules to add functionality. Some may consider this approach bloated and unnecessary, but there is one very good reason why using a CMS to build something like this is useful: scalability. It is much easier to replicate, move, and scale Drupal instances than trying to move your custom coded PHP project. Anyway, the beta test went great, though there was a small bug encountered at the beginning of the test (due to some copy-pasting of code). Web developers, test your products WITH your users. You can fix bugs in real-time and also self-critique your own work.
In short: work. test. work. test. (and repeat)