MS Capstone

How many?

Posted by admin - 28/02/08 at 08:02:24 am

As I am here at work thinking about how I would build my application, I found something to be concerned with.

• How many events does a user put on a calendar?
• A user may put schedule for 2 appointments that will overlap.
• But what about more than that?
• What if a user has many events?

These are some of the questions that are floating through my head.  Even though, this application is ONLY a prototype, I cannot help but be concerned with it.  Granted the user can filter out events by selecting what type of events to display, but I am worried with information overload.  It is not useful to have a whole lot of information presented to you at once.  If anything, you would see a preview and can select the view/area for more details.

I will need to examine Google Calendar and Palm Desktop to see how they handle a lot of events.

Getting back into the groove

Posted by admin - 28/02/08 at 06:02:42 am

I’ve got a lot of work cut out for me over the next week. I haven’t done much capstone stuff in the past two weeks due to Wedding plans and Laptop problems. But everything is squared away and so I am ready to begin.

The design process is finished and now begins the implementation part. I’ve been looking at current articles on the integration of Adobe Flash and Adobe Flex. The challenging part is developing the framework for the prototype as well as finding a way to implement the events on the “highways” via code. It’s especially tough for me because I am not a strong coder and it takes me a bit. I am hoping I can use both Flash and Flex but as a backup will use just Flash.

I also need to catch up on some reading. There are a few books that I have that I need to read and make notes. I will post a more thorough list of what I will be doing exactly tonight.

Side note:  After looking at the previous post with the sketches, I decided I need to sketch some more to better demonstrate what the events will look like.  I will make 4 sketches with events placed on each view.

Some sketches

Posted by admin - 27/02/08 at 09:02:35 pm

Here are some sketches of what the prototype will look like.

I will post some more this week…

It’s Week 10

Posted by admin - 19/02/08 at 06:02:48 pm

This past Saturday, there was a Capstone Dinner session with Elouise and her kids, Matt K., and Paul W.  I showed some of the last sketches to Elouise.  I am happy to say that I have the go ahead to begin the implementation process!  She did request that I do a sketch in Photoshop/Illustrator to show what the actual prototype will look like.  I am hoping to finish that by the end of this week and will post it online.

As far as timeline goes,  I’m right on track.  Woot!

A mini-critique

Posted by admin - 10/02/08 at 06:02:45 pm

Last Thursday (on Chinese’s New Year), I had a mini-critique with my professor Elouise Oyzon.  I was at a point where I needed some feedback and other people’s perspective.  It proved to be quite useful and I received some great feedback.  In addition, Elouise said I am a few days away from beginning the implementation phase.  Woot!

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