Preparation for the BIG day

Date : 20th September 2007 (Thursday) 7:00pm
Location : Bugis Village - StarBucks
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Jaron, Suyi

We had a meeting today to discuss on the presentation on saturday (22nd Sep 2007) and also to clear some of the bugs in the application. Most of the things are almost done and we just have to go through a few more rounds of checking and touching up of the documentations and application.

We will be meeting earlier in the morning on saturday before the presentation just to run through the entire application again and prepare ourselves for the project demo.

Finalise and Fine Tuning

Date : 9th September 2007 (Sunday) 11:45am
Location : SMU
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Jaron, Mr. Liaw

We had a project discussion today with Mr. Liaw to show him what we've done so far and asked for his suggestions to further enhance on our application. We have also discussed on the project presentation that is on the 22nd September. We've split up our workload to finalise and enhance the final product and also to complete our final documentation for the project.

Suggestions by Mr. Liaw

• Attach images and documents (Journal)
• Thumbnail to each entry (Journal)
• Preview of each journal entry content (Journal)
• Limit the number of portal that each account can create to 3 (Toolkit)
• Allow user to select modules that they require (Toolkit)
• Charge users based on user selected modules (Toolkit)
• If modules are selected after activation date, module fees will be prorated (Toolkit)
• Focus on toolkit's features instead of the poral modules

Schedule

• 12th Sep - Finalise GUI Design
• 15th Sep - Group meeting at SIM to test application on actual environment
• 16th Sep - Meet up with Mr. Liaw
• 17th Sep - Deployment
• 18th Sep - REST
• 19th Sep - Video clipping
• 20th Sep - Meet up for presentation practices
• 21st Sep - Last deployment
• 22nd Sep - Presentation

Progress Meeting

Date : 26th August 2007 (Sunday) 1:00pm
Location : City Hall StarBucks
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

We had a meeting today to discuss on the status of coding, we've also discussed on the final documentation and target to start on the final documentations soon. Jaron has emailed Mr. Liaw to request for a sample documentation for reference but have yet to receive.

We're likely to change the ERD and use case diagrams that we have earlier on as there are many changes to flow of the system now, those diagrams may not be relevant anymore.

Coding & Debugging

Date : 5th August 2007 (Sunday) 1:00pm
Location : City Hall StarBucks
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

Today is the first meeting we have to solely discuss on our coding difficulties and JiaLiang to help us debug our errrors and to get all of our codes snychronised and updated with the CVS (previously the CVS wasn't working properly, but it has already been resolved now). The progress is still quite slow but once we've gotten more familiar with the coding structure and standards, things will definately speed up. Nonetheless, we already have some of the minor functions working, however, we anticipate there's alot more fine tuning to be done.

Need to remember to continue doing documentation too.

Development Setup

Date : 29th July 2007 (Sunday) 3:00pm
Location : Bugis - StarBucks
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

We met up today to discuss about the development of the project (coding and programming), we've split up the workload so that each of us will work on a certain part of the system and we are targeting to meet up at least once a week to follow up on each other's progress and integrate the system. Jia Liang has also setup the development environment on each of our laptops and briefly run through with us the programming structure and naming conventions. Jaron has helped to setup the CVS so as to ensure that our codes are always update to date and synchronized.

Accomplishments

• Setup CVS
• Setup development environment
• Coding structure and naming convention
• Toolkit's database structure (draft 1)

Things to do

• UML, ERD, Hierarchical structure of the system, full database design, data dictionary
• Coding the modules
• Update proposal
• Update documentation

Prototype Presentation

Date : 19th July 2007 (Thursday) 7:00pm
Location : SIM (LT 4.15)
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron, Mr. Liaw, Mr. Premarajan

During the 30 minutes long presentation we've discussed on the project proposal with Mr. Premarajan, we have addressed to the previous feedbacks of the project proposal and have also printed and gave Mr. Premarajan a hardcopy of our updated proposal today. It is suggested that we should include the learning objectives at the final presentation and also to produce a hierachical chart or overview of the website.

Feedbacks

• Include learning objectives in the final presentation and documentation
• Produce a hierachical chart or overview of the website
• Document the developer toolkit and portal together (merge them together instead of separating them)
• We should decide on how to host our project, it is recommended that we purchase a host
• Have a register page for all users to register
• Need to take into consideration of the security of the website and authentication
• Think of how to package our product, how to market it
• Need a website to "sell" our toolkit

Finalise Deliverables for Demo

Date : 18th July 2007 (Wednesday) 7:00pm
Location : Tampines Mall (StarBucks)
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

We met up today to do the prototype and to prepare ourselves for tomorrow's prototype demo to our supervisor and assessor. We've also fine tuned the design but we're anticipating it to change as we further develop the project. We've also redesigned the project website and added links to our project proposal and technical manual in the project website. It is agreed that we will further enhance as much as we can after today's prototype demonostration to further improve and fine tune on the GUI and design.

Things done

• Technical manual
• User manual
• Project website
• Working prototype
• Use case diagram