Project Highlight: TallySpace

Posted: March 1st, 2009 | Author: Nathan

Since the primary purpose of this site is shameless self-promotion I figured I’d dive right in and highlight my currently (most) active project: TallySpace.com.

My wife is a teacher and for a few years was yearbook adviser at her school.  One day she was complaining about how they spend literally weeks out of the year counting standout votes.  For those not in “the biz” (which I wasn’t) those are the votes for things like “Best Hair” and “Most Likely to Succeed.”  Being the techie I am, I spent a night working up a really quick-and-dirty PHP/MySQL app that imported a list of her students and could basically let them do all the voting online.

We ran the vote that way last year and this year and despite a few bugs things went off nicely.  The site prints out a nice little results page for those authorized to view it and generally saves the yearbook class from having to waste a bunch of time counting votes.

I got so much positive feedback from the teachers that I decided to build it out to handle multiple schools and multiple vote types, including Prom/Homecoming votes and student goverment.  I’m currently about 60% done with the “Alpha” build and will be posting updates here.  This is the first really unique and massive project I’ve taken on myself so it’s been a learning experience.

If you’re an educator or know any who might be interested feel free to head over to TallySpace.com and sign up to receive notification once the Beta is opened up.  I’m not sure who I’m going to open it to yet but depending on the response I may just let in everybody who asks.

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