Business Problem: Our client was running a fundraiser for a political candidate. In order to encourage attendees to supply their email addresses for a mailing list, the organizers offered to take each attendee's picture with the candidate and email it to them. The client would be working with a laptop, a camera, and no Internet access. They needed to be able to capture the name, email address, zip code and photo of each attendee. Since attendance was expected to be quite large, writing everything on a sheet of paper or keeping a list in a spreadsheet wasn't a viable option. They also needed to integrate with Outlook in order to send the messages in a batch, after the event was over and the laptop could be connected to the Internet again.
Solution: We created a stand-alone application that captured the required information, including the name of the photo. The camera was connected to the laptop while photos were taken, so the photos were stored on the laptop's hard drive. Since photos from digital cameras are usually numbered sequentially, the program even went so far as to guess the name of the photo so that the user didn't have to type it in. Each record was saved for later use and could be edited by the person manning the laptop.
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Business Problem: The client, a high-end photolab catering to professional photographers, needed to deliver a large quantity of high resolution photographs to clients on CD or DVD regularly. In most cases, there were enough photographs that multiple disks were required. They had been paying interns to manually count up the number that would fit on a single disk, then wait while the CD or DVD was burned and repeat the process. This was both slow and expensive.