I’ve never worked with Crystal Reports before. The last step between me and sunsetting an old windows click-install application was running one crystal report in a loop and writing out PDF files for entry, named appropriately.

Would you look at that! A problem I wrote about has a an official proposed solution: ICANN is proposing the .internal Tld to fulfill the need I identified.

While upgrading to Yosemite, I ran into a snag with my local server setup.  I run a local server for VPN and DNS.  My local domains all end with the .local top-level domain (TLD; .com, .net, .org, etc. are all TLDs) as it seemed appropriate.  And it was working!  Until it wasn't...

I ran the update command on Composer and received the following error: [Composer\Downloader\TransportException] The "http://packagist.org/p/symfony/class-loader$78539d95ddac0cc02514ed9cdf1515023dcd289b4f7e03ed948e868a1b02acf2.json" file could not be downloaded: failed to open stream: HTTP request failed!

I have been trying to create my solution to the SIS problem for quite some time, scratching and restarting, hopefully each time learning.

1. Started out with KS Connect, a KS proprietary solution, that does exactly what KS needs.
2. Contract with Academy of the Pacific, which afforded the first incantation of Kula SIS.
3. Auxiliary billing system for Holy Nativity School called HNS Connect for which I had a grand vision.

...but the current occupation is as close as I have been to making this reality.  Small hiccup is that what I create is for Higher Ed.  But here's the thing...