MADAM…that’s the name I chose for my new assignment.Although it may sound confusing at the very first place what sort of an assignment that could be, its nothing more than a handy(or the way I expect that to be) application for asset management.You guessed it right, MADAM stands for nothing other that Modular Animation Digital Asset Management.This one stands out from whatever I have attempted in my entire career in terms of the scale of the project. I havn’t set a deadline for the proposed finishing of the project since I am not sure about the free time I will be getting from my work schedule.Another reason is I am still through the learning phase of application development.But that doesn’t mean that this will be in a work-in-progress stage for years to come.

Here is a list of the tasks which I am planning to handover to MADAM:

1.Job Tracker for assigning and keeping track of the tasks.

2.Daily Publisher for publishing the work for daily review.

3.Integrated messaging system for easy communication.

4.Customizable home page to favor easy access to frequently accessed data.

5.Message board for sharing useful resources.

6.Project wide report generation at any stage

These are some of the tasks which I have planned to implement as of now.Gotta see how far I can go in to implementing these features.

Coming to the technical aspects,The core of the application will be powered with  python2.5 for the programming part along with pyQt4 for the interface design.The database will be MySQL ofcourse I had to choose this one among its opensource counterparts(had planned for PostGreSQL in the beginning, but switched over to MySQL since there was limited documentation available for the PyGreSQL module.).Thats it for the time being.Hope that will help me carry out most of the tasks which I have planned so far.