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

Project Lecture 2

Date : 17th July 2007 (Tuesday) 7:00pm
Location : SIM (Lecture Hall 2.17)
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

We had our second project lecture this evening, we have been highlighted on the number of items that we need to submit and complete. The prototype is halfway done now, will meet again tomorrow to integrate the prototype and complete the user manual and technical manual.

We had a short discussion after the lecture to further discuss on the outstanding items of the prototype.

Things to do

• Logo for toolkit
• Integrate entire prototype
• Portal's main page design and user interface
• Amendments for "Medical Journals" module pages
• Use case and use case diagrams
• User manual and technical manual

Kick Start Prototype

Date : 16th July 2007 (Monday) 9:30pm
Location : Skype - online discussion
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

XueBin has kick start the prototype and provided us with the stylesheet so that the rest of us can proceed to do the HTML pages for the prototype. The Skype conference tonight is to discuss about the prototype demonstration that is due on Thursday (19th July 2007). We will also need a user manual and technical manuals for Thursday's demonstration to the assessor.

Jialiang will continue to research on Dojo and integrating the prototype with Dojo. We will have to meet up again on the 18th July 2007 (Wednesday) to tidy up the prototype and integrate the pages together.

Prototype Discussion

Date : 12th July 2007 (Friday) 7:00pm
Location : Tampines Mall (StarBucks)
Attendees : Jia Liang, Xue Bin, Su Yi, Jaron

The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss on the prototype that needs to be submitted and demonstrated to the assessor. We have also further discussed the details of each feature, flow and interface design of the web portal that is to be generated by the developer's toolkit. JiaLiang has also demonstrated to us on his research/coding on Dojo i.e. the drag and drop, window resizing, submission of forms without refreshing etc...

Things to do

• Jaron to check out on the server setup and building up of the CVS
• All of us to start working on the prototype
• JiaLiang will continue to research on Dojo
• Changes in the context diagram to include public users to access the web portal instead of public users to access the developer's toolkit (public users should never come in contact with the developer's toolkit)