Where is my Caffine has the nice layout of all.
I really like the idea of collect local coffee and tea shop.
Like I say in the class, forum can be the good solution for you guys to have.
I think this project really can get some money from the local sponsors.
If you want the place to host the site and build the fourm, I can help you to host the site on kaespace.
This is our project Iteration 3.
We try to setup our own discussion board in this iteration. We found out that in review that some users don't like to create account to post article or comment. They's why we try to build one for our own. The first forum we build use bbpress. It's a really nice fourm that allow me to build multiple fourms and each fourm will generate RSS feed. Also user can tag each post and search post by tag or subscribe RSS feed by tag. However it is petrry new and the system it's really stable and has some bugs that I can't fix, so we decided to use phpbb. It's a really stable forum and I really like it. It can build multiple forums,too. The administrator tool is really nice that administator can control everything. Also phpbb allow administrator to set that user don't need to register to post article. That's really what we are looking for. It also will auto adjust the fourm's size if I open the fourm in the iframe. However it didn't have tag article and generate RSS feed's features that bbpress has. So I search for RSS plug-in to make forum can generate RSS feed. If your project need fourm, I will recommand you use phpbb.
Kim, David and me was working on other class project this afternoon. We try to make our own database and run on the oracle. In the begining, me and David try to work on the sql command but we were working on same file. So we have to pass around the flash drive back and forward everytime each of us change sometime. After while we tired to pass flash drive around, so we decided to just use one computer. Acutually it worked find and we find the bug in our database really fast. When David was typing and fix the bug, I can check is he doing right. Sometimes David didn't understand what I try to told him, he will pass the keyboard to me and let me do it.
We do see a problem when we use pair programming. When I work with other group member, I was trying to help her to make the graph. However minute later, she told me that she felt I was really annoyed to tell her what to do. Although she was just joking, but it shows it might happen in some conditions.
After Iteration 2, several week's review, and is215's students' review, I summarize the problem we have on our project.
- User interative, especially with map.
- Grammer error on the documentation
- Slow loading speed on the star widget
- Find the project target audience
- Should Google Group goes?
3 out of 5 problem relate to user interative. I knew that our project have weaker user interative. That's why I add star widget and Google group. However, start widget is slowing down the loading speed and looks like people don't like Google Group also. The Google Goup request too many steps to post a article. I am not sure that what other user interative that we can do base on the skill and time we have now.
First I try to fix the the grammer problem and make it readable.
Secound I try to setup my own discusion board. By building our own discussion board, we can collect user's articles and publish our own RSS feed. However, I still have problem to setup and configure everything.
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Let me start by informing all of you that did not make it to the Menlo Innovations trip...you missed out a good introduction to the real world, and more. I've been taking computer classes for years now learning how software development & design companies work. But getting a tour in the real world is quite different. The CEO and President, Richard Sheridan was all about common sense. No strict rules, open environment, no cubicles, no long hours, and staff with good attitudes. I had learned about "pair programming" but I didn't understand the concept until I saw two programmers sharing one keyboard, one computer. I think it is a good idea for a freshmen or sophmore to take such trips to determine if that's what the want to do for their careers. All in all, it was two hours of my time well spent.
I am Milot went to trip to Menlo, and it is realy interesting. When Richard told us about how people work in Menlo, it was really fascinating. He told us about how "pair progamming" work and why it is more efficient than ordinary work style. Richard told us how Menlo see and think things differently than others. I think that the key for Menlo to success. They care about their customer and list their voice. That's what good programmer or product designer should do, to give customers what they need. That's so many things that so interesting to me. Even that I have to go to school fashion show in the main campus at 7PM and I was trying to leave 20 min early but I can't resist it and leave Menlo amost at 7PM. I wish i have more this kind of trip more and earlier in my college life.
It's almost in the end of semester. Everyone work very well on their project, and my group has worked on the point that don't even know what we can do better than what we have right now. I do see all the review and I appreciate all the people give me the feedback. Howeve I am tired to not to be appreciate about the work I have on the project. I do everything that I can to make the website to meet what user will like to have, but in the end it looks like I just do some extra work for nothing.
I look some of the team's project and I think that some of the stuff that I know might help you on your project.
1. On TeamExtreme! project, we have the infowindow pop up on the fix size and the text won't go outside the inforwindow is we using the
But I have to worry people that using too much ifrma might cause slowing down the webpage loading speed.
2. The php file that can convert the RSS feed I alread talk about in my previous blog. It very easy to use however don't covert the RSS feed that content picture, because it didn't work on picture.
3.I decodeing the webpage now, so everyone wnat to see the source code you can see it now.
Hope it help~
It's almost the end of semester.
Every group has their own project going.
Jeff has asked me about this php file call "rss2html", I try to e-mail to him but I don't have his e-mail address, so I just post in here. If someone see Jeff tell him that this stuff is here.
This is the link to php file and Templates.
This is the Documentation about how to use this php script.
It's very easy that you only need to open php file to set the xml file you want php script to read and set the out come text length. Also go to the templates file to adjust the out come formate. And put both file on the webspace use this smaple method and it will convert the RSS or XML to HTML formate.
This is the smaple:
http://yourdomain.com/rss2html.php?XMLFILE=http://www.rssfeed_domain.com/rssfeed.xml&TEMPLATE=http://www.yourdomain.com/template.htm&MAXITEMS=10
If you get problem to use just let me know
After we move our project to the new domain.
I have thinkg about what Jame said last time in our iteration 2 presentation.
I remember he said that " Why people want to use your website instead to use Google or ESPN? "
I think first of all, our website didn't provide any sports data and all the information we have on the website is provide by sports news website. However, we try to put everything together. For example, we put each team's news, league's action and calendar in one place. We also get information from different place. It's like "One Stop Shopping" that user can get lot information in one place. That's the goal when we start this project.
Continue the thing I talk in above, the second thing we thought about it this week is how can we provide the information that we don't have right now. James question our project about how can he the player on our website if he didn't know which team the player play. Actually this is a good question. There is no RSS feed that content all the list of player in the league or in the team. Also AJAX is not just use ifram to link to other website. So we come out the solution that put the customize Google search Engine in the website that only search the sport news from some sports news website. in this way, people can search team, player or event on the search engine.
I hope this way we can bring more inforamtion to the user and people will like to use our website.
After people wrote review for our project. I think that one of the big problem is the we bpage loading speed is slow. So this is what we are focus to do this week.
The first thing I did is to move the webpage from people.emich.edu to kaespace.com. I think people.emich.edu is might not fast enough, also it's limilt me to try some API. By move the webpage, it cost me a day to correct some coding change.
The second thing I done is to monitor the website. I try to load my website on different web browser and different environment. I found out that the old counter is bad that not just slow down the webpage loading time also slow down the star rating loading speed. But star rating loading speed is still slow, it depend on star rating widget server.
Although our focus right now is to find out our target group and how to attact those people, but since MLB season is starting now. I wish I can make another one before the end of semester.
It's takes a week to let programmableweb post our team project.
Here is the link.
Hope we can get more feedback from more and more people.
Too bad didn't make the mashup of the day. XD