Kokila's Blog http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/ en-us Copyright 2006 Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:36:47 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Creating Your First Google Maps Mashup 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

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/creating_your_first_google_maps_mashup.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/creating_your_first_google_maps_mashup.shtml creating first google maps mashup your Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:36:47 -0500 Agile vs. Waterfall 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

 

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

Thankyou all for your reviews and feedback.

Best Wishes !

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/eventmaps_prototype3_groupproj.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/12/eventmaps_prototype3_groupproj.shtml eventmaps groupproject prototype3 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:09:48 -0500 eventmaps groupproject IS-215 review summary 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
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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.

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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

 

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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

 

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/11/google_gadgets_for_your_webpage.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/11/google_gadgets_for_your_webpage.shtml for gadgets google webpage your Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:55:07 -0500 Happy Thanksgiving Thankyou Nathaniel for sharing info about ThanksGiving day !

Wish you good time with your family and friends !

Happy holidays !!

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/11/happy_thanksgiving.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/11/happy_thanksgiving.shtml happy thanksgiving Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:11:13 -0500 eventmaps prototype2 review summary groupproject Dear All,
 
Thankyou for taking time and reviewing Eventmaps prototype II. All of you had very valid inputs. Your suggestions will be duly considered for iteration3.
 
Eventmaps prototype II review summary: Total Reviews -11/14 
 
Likings: UI, functions and features
New UI                                    8
Professional layout                  5
Add events                             3
Search retrieval number         3
Map size                                 3
Design                                       2
Satellite image                           2
Icons                                         2
Calendar control                     1
Info map  images                    1
Register button in info map     1
 
Suggestions
Event list windows location     6
Cross Browser issues              3
Close search results box           1
Narrow zoom range                  1
Price of attending the event     1
Fixed panel                               1
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Hi Anthony,

Apparently Calendar control issue in Firefox v1.5 has been resolved. Now it works with both versions of firefox (1,5 & 2.0) and with IE 6.0 !

http://people.emich.edu/kgangapp/Images/EM_FireFox1.5_CalendarControl.bmp

 

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Thankyou Vershon for reviewing EventMaps. Happy to know that the interface is appealing !

We are working on the cross browser compatibility issues. Hoping to get it all right for iteration3.

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Thankyou Tanika for reviewing EventMaps and for liking the application and its features.

 

]]> http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/11/eventmaps_prototype2_groupproj.shtml http://learningremix.net/f2006integ/kgangapp/2006/11/eventmaps_prototype2_groupproj.shtml eventmaps groupproject prototype2 review Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:03:26 -0500 eventmaps groupproject prototype2 review Thankyou Anthony for reviewing EventMaps.

Glad to hear that you liked and tried all the features, especially the satellite feature ! Great to hear that calendar control works in firefox 2.0, thanks for trying ! We have been testing it on V1.5.

We will definately move the events listing box as per your suggestion.

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