UNI talent database: 2-tier system

University of Northern Iowa: In 1997 I created a “talent database” where individuals could login via a web interface and volunteer as local experts in various fields.

This was written prior to the existence of PHP, ASP or even JSP – written entirely in Perl via CGI using DBD/DBI libraries with a mSQL back-end. In order to make the system completely automated I created a Perl sendmail to database interface.

The system had a Perl script which sent out periodic e-mails, looked for replies, and then automatically updated the database based on the response submitted by users.