I ended up taking two weeks and it didn't go well, so I'll not talk about it.
I actually left work with things at a pretty good stopping place, so I didn't come back to a mess of work. I'll get back into OFAX and see if there are any other changes for the admissions application that I asked Dorothy to look at and test while I was away. Bill also gave me another project to get working on this morning. It will be an application that will send out email to the students based on different criteria. It should be pretty easy programming, but there is the issue of off campus email addresses, such as yahoo and hotmail. If we send out too many emails at a time, these domains will list wou.edu as spam and stop delivering our emails. This is the driving force to get all students to use their wou email addresses, but I guess the other addresses are still collected and we may be sending out to those. Bill said he would research how many we can send out at a time and I can write the script to put the emails into a table and then create a cron job that will send out the specified number of emails at a time. This will mean the emails may take awhile to go out, but at least we'll be able to stay off spam lists, which ends up being a lot of work for Travis to get us off.
