Firstly, apologies to David for failing to write an entry last week! Completely forgot about it quite honestly!!!
We're half way through the semester - only 7 or 8 weeks left before it all ends! Cool and scary at the same time! Looking forward to finishing the course but at the same time feeling pressure to finish the project on time and at the same time keep up with other assignments...
Last week we finally set the date for data transfer! Its going to happen on the 9th of September so we have to try to finish everything by then. There will be few smaller things that we won't be able to completely wrap up before the transfer but it is easy to work on the live site in order to make them work. We need to come up with the strategy of how we're going to do it. We'll probably create a new directory and run the site from there for couple of weeks to make sure it all works fine....but we'll discuss this on Tuesday probably...
I have following things to finish (this is a good chance to see if I'm missing something):
- Quiz: the front end is done and working sweetly! The only thing that is left is the final configuration of the back-end. Its all coded and it only need to be connected with the rest of the back-end site so the client only uses one log in.
- Advanced Search: oh...I haven't done much (read anything) on this for quite some time! The majority is done but I still have some important bits to finish...the good thing is that this is already online so I'm not bothered by the deadline (well not this one anyway)...main thing I need to do is to put some javascript checking and to make sure that if a user does not enter a search string, everything is displayed from that category
- User Forum: this is also 90% done and it only needs some final tweaking. It shouldn't take more then couple of hours to finish so I'll probably leave it last
That's it! There are few things that Steve has to finish but that is all from my side. I'm very happy with the progress of the project. Other guys have been in charge of all documentation and the real challenge for them will be the Test document. I'll have to make sure that they do a proper job...
Thats it for now...will come back with some more next week ;)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Start of week 5
Well, one third of the semester has gone and the pressure is mounting! I feel that the time is going even quicker this semester then it did in the first one.
We had a client meeting last Tuesday and it was interesting! He was pleased with how the project is progressing and we were pleased that he was fairly flexible with some of the requirements.
The funniest part was when I showed his advanced search page. I actually sent him a link earlier so he had time to look over it. He was pleased how it worked and looked but then he asked if we could get rid of the search box!!???!!! What the.....? I looked at him completely confused and he goes, he wants the user to click on the advanced search and then select category and sub-category and then everything from that category displays!!!??? I go, well that's all fine, but we cannot call that advanced search when you're not searching for anything??? Other guys were shocked as well and I was pretty pissed off cuz I spent good few weeks writing and testing the code just to find out that it was all pointless???
We managed to reason him and come to agreement that the search box stays (duu'h!) but the user will have an option to leave it blank in which case it will display all items from selected category. Uh....he must be the most complicated person to work for/with...
There are few documents due next week (week 6) and hopefully, Paul and Craig will be able to finish them in time. I said that I don't care about anything and that I wanted them handed in on time, so we'll see....
This week I've got two assignments due so I've been pretty busy with those and haven't done much work on the project itself...Jon is away for 2 weeks but hopefully we'll have most of the things sorted out before he comes back. Oh yeah, another thing - we managed to convince him that the 'What's New' page should have only list of things that are added to the website over the period of time. Steve was very happy that he doesn't have to use triggers and other complicated code....
OK, that it folks! C ya/ read ya next week ;)
We had a client meeting last Tuesday and it was interesting! He was pleased with how the project is progressing and we were pleased that he was fairly flexible with some of the requirements.
The funniest part was when I showed his advanced search page. I actually sent him a link earlier so he had time to look over it. He was pleased how it worked and looked but then he asked if we could get rid of the search box!!???!!! What the.....? I looked at him completely confused and he goes, he wants the user to click on the advanced search and then select category and sub-category and then everything from that category displays!!!??? I go, well that's all fine, but we cannot call that advanced search when you're not searching for anything??? Other guys were shocked as well and I was pretty pissed off cuz I spent good few weeks writing and testing the code just to find out that it was all pointless???
We managed to reason him and come to agreement that the search box stays (duu'h!) but the user will have an option to leave it blank in which case it will display all items from selected category. Uh....he must be the most complicated person to work for/with...
There are few documents due next week (week 6) and hopefully, Paul and Craig will be able to finish them in time. I said that I don't care about anything and that I wanted them handed in on time, so we'll see....
This week I've got two assignments due so I've been pretty busy with those and haven't done much work on the project itself...Jon is away for 2 weeks but hopefully we'll have most of the things sorted out before he comes back. Oh yeah, another thing - we managed to convince him that the 'What's New' page should have only list of things that are added to the website over the period of time. Steve was very happy that he doesn't have to use triggers and other complicated code....
OK, that it folks! C ya/ read ya next week ;)
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Its week 4 already
Nothing much happened last week really... my lectures and tutes did not bring any big excitement and it was just one of those weeks which you don't even notice. Well that would be if it wasn't for IE off course ... I realise it's start of week4 and there's not much left to go!
Last week we had a guy talking to us regarding the resume writing and other career stuff...it was quite interesting and I wish I knew some of those things before I applied for graduate positions! Thats why I believe that these speakers should have been brought in last semester as most of the companies have their application processes in April and May.
It was interesting to see that I was the only person in the lecture theater who actually already got the job for the next year! Even more interesting, or even shocking is that many people never heard of graduate positions or career fairs! I even did a Summer Vacation Program last summer at NAB and I know that many asked me how did I get it! Quite simple - I followed career fair events adn went our there and talked to people.......some people are too ignorate and they focus strongly on studies, ignoring other aspects of Uni life - future career most important one!
When it comes to the HP Museum project, things are not too bad...we didn't have our client meeting last week as the client couldn't make it so we're having it this week, before the IE lecture/seminar...we need to reject couple of thing he requested, simply because he left it too late! We're still waiting for his feedback on advanced search...that'll be interesting. Also, he's going for a holiday this coming Wednesday and will be away for two weeks. Hopefully we'll get most of the things done when he comes back...
Thats it for this week...i might pop in another post later in the week, who knows! for the end, a video of some extremely funny comercials!
Last week we had a guy talking to us regarding the resume writing and other career stuff...it was quite interesting and I wish I knew some of those things before I applied for graduate positions! Thats why I believe that these speakers should have been brought in last semester as most of the companies have their application processes in April and May.
It was interesting to see that I was the only person in the lecture theater who actually already got the job for the next year! Even more interesting, or even shocking is that many people never heard of graduate positions or career fairs! I even did a Summer Vacation Program last summer at NAB and I know that many asked me how did I get it! Quite simple - I followed career fair events adn went our there and talked to people.......some people are too ignorate and they focus strongly on studies, ignoring other aspects of Uni life - future career most important one!
When it comes to the HP Museum project, things are not too bad...we didn't have our client meeting last week as the client couldn't make it so we're having it this week, before the IE lecture/seminar...we need to reject couple of thing he requested, simply because he left it too late! We're still waiting for his feedback on advanced search...that'll be interesting. Also, he's going for a holiday this coming Wednesday and will be away for two weeks. Hopefully we'll get most of the things done when he comes back...
Thats it for this week...i might pop in another post later in the week, who knows! for the end, a video of some extremely funny comercials!
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