December 18, 2006

Creating Your First Google Maps Mashup

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Here is an article on "Creating Your First Google Maps Mashup", it's late to know but never hurts to know it right !

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=679546&rl=1

Posted by Kokila on December 18, 2006 12:36 PM | | Comments (0)

December 17, 2006

Agile vs. Waterfall

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Waterfall development attempts to divide the work of software development into phases, often with heavy paper deliverables, difficult integration efforts, and a desire to “lock down” or “freeze” requirements early in the schedule. It is not uncommon to see cycles of a year or more before ideas can be turned into working software. In contrast, agile development practices attempt to dramatically increase the throughput of business value, maximizing client ROI through the rapid release of usable functionality while providing the ability to adapt to changing requirements.

See the comparisons here...

Agile vs. Waterfall

Another blog post ...

Agile Methods vs. the Waterfall Method

 

Posted by Kokila on December 17, 2006 10:43 AM | | Comments (0)

December 14, 2006

Note from my end…

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Dear Friends
First of all I would like to thank everybody for making this IS-696 project a big success. I would like to thank other project group members, for sharing info and for providing reviews. Thank you Dr. Bud for all your inputs, feedbacks, guidance and encouragement, and for teaching us the state of the art new concepts and for introducing us to industry buzz words like Ajax, Web 2.0 technologies, Agile methodologies and introducing us to the blogging network.
 
Thanks to all my friends and special thanks to my dear mother and husband who have been constantly supporting me through out my graduate program. And also don’t want to miss thanking all Professors at EMU who have been very encouraging and supportive in teaching basics and expertise as well. All my learning’s at EMU has helped shaping me as an individual and also for my career.
 
Today completing this project and course work at EMU, I am walking away with pride, sense of accomplishment and with a BIG SMILE  ....!!!
 
Hearty Congratulations for those who are Graduating !! Good Luck with your career !!  
 
Best Wishes !!
Kokila

Posted by Kokila on December 14, 2006 12:12 AM | | Comments (0)

December 13, 2006

Learningremix.net Blog Synthesis

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Hi All,
Here is a synthesis of learningremix.net blog:
Why Blog ?
 - Web Log (blog) buzz  word
 - Blogs are easy and fast web publishing tool
 - Blogs are an easy & effective way for teams to collaborate or manage their projects, even across geographically dispersed teams.
 - Use blogs as a tool for executive leadership to share news to entire teams.
 - Blog content integrates with existing content management systems or portal applications seamlessly.
 - Blogs provide a permanent record of all communications, freeing the information that's trapped in email today.
We as novice to this blog world at the beginning of this term, started slowly but geared up rapidly to this blogging network. Now at the end of the course, i feel i am missing something if i don't take a peek into the blog posts every now and then whenever i get a chance !
One undergraduate team IS-449 and one graduate team IS-696 used the learningremix.net blog network very effectively through out the fall 2006 term.
Technorati helped us with what's happening on the World Live Web. With Sitemeter anywhere in the world could see and contribute to the topics of discussion. Adding widgets was helpful and fun.
 
Few project groups used the blogs for discussing about their project status, concerns, notes summary, reviews, feedback, interactions, cross team sharing, group communications, track project progress. Groups used it as a professional, integrated network for peer networking and reviews.
total # of bloggers = 18
total # of posts = 1041 (as of 13th Dec 12:00 am)
Various interesting topics ranging from Ajax, Web 2.0, HTML, XML, DOM, JavaScript to sharing info about graduation, thanksgiving were all posted. I find it easier to use blogs compared to keeping track of emails for project discussions.
The idea of using threaded comments to blog posts to promote class interaction is very useful and open interactions help to keep tab of the project happenings.
 
I hope all of you enjoy blogging the same way i do !!

Posted by Kokila on December 13, 2006 11:42 PM | | Comments (0)

eventmaps prototype3 groupproject

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Hi All,

Please find the slides and project link for EventMaps prototype -III.

Thankyou all for your reviews and feedback.

Best Wishes !

Posted by Kokila on December 13, 2006 11:09 PM | | Comments (0)

December 6, 2006

eventmaps groupproject IS-215 review summary

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Thankyou IS-215 team for taking time and reviewing EventMaps !
Total Reviews = 14                 
                       
Likes = 13/14              
Dislikes = 10/14
Purpose understood = 13/14              
Suggestions = 8/14                  
                       
Likes summary:            
-         Easy to use - 8/14                     
-         Easy to use in subsequent attempts - 3/14                      
-         Site is informative - 7/14                        
-         Liked the purpose of event maps - 13/14                       
-         Good Design - 10/14                
-         Fast response - 1                      
                       
Features liked:             
-         Satellite image - 2/14                 
-         Date and radius-narrowing search - 1/14            
-         Search - 4/14                
-         Full scale map - 1/14                 
                       
Dislikes summary:                    
-         Difficult to understand, use– 5/14
-         No Instructions – 3/14
-         Difficult to understand the events listed in small prints -1/14
-         Limited Purpose – 1/14
-         Did not show Pricing - 1/14
-         Limited to only 5 cities – 1/14
-         Map not useful – 1/14 –
-         Not many events found – 2/14
-         Could not find known event in the area -1/14
-         Zooming to one location froze the screen -1/14
 
Suggestions summary:
-         Pricing for events
-         Instruction on how to use the site
-         Purpose of the site to be made clear
-         How the site functions
-         Contact the creators
-         Resize events listing window
-         Consider major cities like Detroit
-         Need more events
-         More images
-         Search an event and then the results can give the location and date as well
-         Preview image of a map to let you know what you are clicking on

Posted by Kokila on December 6, 2006 10:18 PM | | Comments (0)

December 3, 2006

eventmaps testing search results display

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For a search which yields more than 25 results, only first 25 results are displayed in the events list and for the events occuring in the same location the markers are overlapping so not all markers are visible on the map.

This is because we parse only 25 items in our page index. We need to display all the remaining search items on separate pages and provide page transitions to it.

Ex: For the search criteria -Sports, Novi, 30 miles, Future - yields 163 items but only 25 items are listed in the events list and only 7 markers appear on the map. We need to make provision to view the remaining search items.

Posted by Kokila on December 3, 2006 4:21 PM | | Comments (0)

December 2, 2006

Eventmaps: Narrow zoom range issue

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Shoko,

Narrow zoom range issue

One is the Antartica issue as noted by Eric and another issue is maps are not displayed for few range options just like the one in the error captured.

http://people.emich.edu/kgangapp/IS696/RadiusError.doc

 

Posted by Kokila on December 2, 2006 11:50 AM | | Comments (0)

November 27, 2006

Google Gadgets for your Webpage

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Check out these Google Gadgets, they are easy and cool to implement in your webpage.

http://www.google.com/ig

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?synd=open

 

Posted by Kokila on November 27, 2006 11:55 PM | | Comments (0)

November 23, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving

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Thankyou Nathaniel for sharing info about ThanksGiving day !

Wish you good time with your family and friends !

Happy holidays !!

Posted by Kokila on November 23, 2006 2:11 PM | | Comments (0)

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