International work

November 9th, 2007

In 2008 the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will arrange an symposium dedicated to Bengt Strömgren’s one-hundredth anniversary. Via my job at the Dark Cosmology Centre I was hired to do some work on the web-site of the event. My biggest assignment was to create a script to handle grant applications. The script gathers information about the applicant from a simple html form and creates a pdf-file which is both shown in the browser, e-mailed to the applicant and saved on the server. I have never worked with the pdf-functions in php before, but I think it turned out all right. So did the people in IAU. In fact, they asked me if I would give them the code behind the script along with a manual so that they could use it for all their future meetings! I happily did, of course. My work is now being used by a cool, international organisation – whoa! :)

2 Responses to “International work”

  1. amix says:

    Programming is fun. Watch out, you may become addicted :D

    http://diana.youaremighty.com/

  2. Diana says:

    Haha, nice link!
    I’m afraid I might already be addicted to programming. ;)

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