Abi-Ball Planner
A Java desktop tool for organizing an Abi-Ball involving roughly 400 students.
The short version
Abi-Ball Planner was built for a specific organizational need around a school event. Its scale—roughly 400 students—made consistent records and a shared database more important than a flashy interface.
Why I built it
A one-off school event still needs durable software.
Planning an Abi-Ball means keeping people, tables, changes, and administrative details consistent across a large group. I built a Java Swing application backed by MySQL so the process had one structured source rather than several versions of the same list.
Why it matters
Correct data mattered more than a polished pitch.
Nobody needed a marketing page or a growth metric. They needed the data to be correct and the workflow to be understandable. That constraint made reliability and direct usefulness the measure of the project.