Well I’m 6 weeks into my first Dev job. They haven’t really given me much to do, so the boss let me come up with my own project for an internal app, which is nice.

That's awesome! Keep the K-I-S-S golden rule in your heart and you will fly high! Good luck!

Yeah, it’s just a basic web app for a data dictionary, but it gives them an idea of what I can do. I’m also going to be responsible for implementing a new CRM/Wiki and replacing sourcesafe

Don't know exactly what the "data dictionary" means in your company, but by the name it sounds like integrating with Redis to store the data could be an approach to simplify? It is a simple, yet powerful and very fast Key-Value storage system (with a lot of other functionalities). Opensource.

@gosubinit it’s not quite as sophisticated as that. The ERP software we use has hundreds of modules with thousands of tables, columns, and Indexes.

Currently the description for all of these comes in the form or either a spreadsheet or a pdf document.

My app will basically take this information and turn it into a user friendly easily searchable website. With the added bonus of being able to automatically update the data for new releases of the software etc.

Sounds great! Wish we had a @zarathustra here too! Good luck!