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Week of June 9th

This week it was BigBlueButton’s turn to give a presentation during CDOT’s weekly presentation day. Bo and I presented on the prototype and database behind it. The biggest challenge for this presentation, and one that I dread to face for any presentation, was making the material interesting and compelling to the audience. The prototype in its current state is extremely rough around the edges. I didn’t focus on making it look appealing, instead focusing on showing the basic features of the system. For someone so obsessed with aesthetics (me) showing this beast of a website to anyone was a real pain. Poor Bo got stuck with talking about the database so he had it even worse. Luckily the presentation was seemingly well-received! I think Humph mentioned at one point that we should film the presentations to better analyze our strengths and weaknesses so I think I’ll ask if we could try doing that from now on. It’s going to be weird as hell watching myself present but I’ll gain insight that I wouldn’t otherwise have by observing my behavior.

The rest of the week was spent working on use cases. Fardad approved using the MVC pattern but suggested that before we code anything we finalize the use cases and scenarios of the system. I made a list of all the use cases I could think of and split them up among Ystallonne, Bo, and myself. Those should be finished by next Tuesday, after which we’ll start coding models and a few controllers.

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Week of March 10th

This was another busy week for me (at school) so work has been slow. I’m nearly done with the sitemap so it should be ready by Monday. The sitemap now has brief descriptions of what each page does and what major elements it will contain (input fields, buttons, drop-downs, etc). We’ll be able to very loosely trace out the user’s navigation of the system with these new updates.

 

Hope everyone has an awesome St. Patrick’s day weekend!