Project Transcore THEA
in category Projects -> Web Development -> Project Transcore THEA. Updated at Sat, 01 Mar 2025 09:14:23 EST
A Perl project from late 2017, early 2018
Transcore, the Tampa office, manages the Selmon Expressway toll roads. I spent just 6 months with this company, late 2017 through mid 2018. This was a huge Perl project. If you've ever driven the toll roads around Florida, they are all managed by Transcore.
I did a lot of Perl code and SQL debugging here on their older RHEL6 base system. I also built a wiki/knowledge base for Transcore and the City of Tampa highway administrators. The wiki was built with the same Perl CMS prototype that this website, technilogical.com, is built with.
At the time I left this position, the Transcore Knowledge Base was built but I did not yet have the full user friendly editor in place in the admin back end. This is a screen shot of the basic editor, which was at that time fully functional (but not real pretty and requires html/js coding skills) and posts content to a database just like Drupal or WordPress. It is a custom build and you can't download it anywhere but you can phone or email me if you are interested in using it for your website or intranet. It will run flawlessly on any version of Perl from 5.8 up and also tests perfectly on the latest version of Perl 5.40. The front end can be re-designed however you choose. It uses Template::Toolkit on the front-end and ultra-flexible and hardened Perl Catalyst on the back end. You can run it with any relational database. I like most SQL flavors and have run it on top of MySQL, MariaDB, Postgresql and SQLite. I have not tested it against MSSQL but having done lots of work with MSSQL I know it would need a little bit of query restructuring for that db.
Transcore is probably an ok place to work if you are in Tampa and like to code with Perl. In my situation, I landed this position while an already existing Perl developer was still on the job and, as usual in that type of situation, he felt threatened by my presence. As a result I wasn't given much help to get started and this position didn't end very well even though the Tampa Highway Admins were thrilled with the Knowledge Base. You may have experienced this as a software engineer. Know that you are not alone. I also had a very difficult living situation at the time so, unfortunately, I was only here for about 6 months.
Keywords
Perl scripting, Perl Catalyst, RHEL 6