Archive for the Personal Interests category

Adding the pew pew

Ah, doesn’t every look better with more pew pew? In the latest episode of UW administration hilarity, they decided to drop something like $60,000 to re-design the logo. The idea was to replace the current one year old refreshed logo with a complete new logo, removing the coat of arms completely. The new logo: nothing [...]

In case you missed my rave about Clayton Christensen at the OCE Discovery 2009 conference, this guy delivered an amazing speech at the conference. So if you did not wake up at 5 am in the morning and drive to Toronto to catch his speech, OCE has been kind enough to make all of the [...]

Working on Project IRIS

And work continues with Project IRIS… our demo date is only weeks away!

Looking back

I actually have not check this view on my Google Analytics since maybe December, usually I only check the rolling 30-day statistics to see how well my Courselect project is doing. Here is a chart of absolute unique visitors since September 4, 2008 (the inception of the website) up until May 31, 2009.

I am actually [...]

More books now on Courselect

I just added another 610 textbooks for the spring term to Courselect. Hoosh! Starting next term, I’ll be adding Biblio.com to the list of book distributors after finally receiving access to their API. Users will now be able to have access to more deeply discounted textbooks.
It is interesting to note that so far there are [...]

FYDP and the future of UWLive

After the big rush of mid-terms and insane lab report due dates in the last two weeks, I have been busy over the past few days doing a small sprint on writing more stuff into our project specifications. Due to an unwarranted force in the department, we are working hard to make sure that our [...]

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Fourth-Year Design Project – Project IRIS

With our FYDP now well into the so called “Elaboration / Elicitation” phase of your typical PLC terminology, we have spent a lot of hours over the reading week into the planning for the “big project”.
In consistency with my habit of posting up super vague information about anything that might be important, all I am [...]

Courselect now catching eyes

This morning, I received an unexpectedly high number of feedback emails on my phone after I got out of my class in RCH. I thought, “Well, looks like the LJ community really liked it.” I only found out after I got home (and after my nap) from checking my uwlive.ca email that I was mentioned [...]

Courselect v2 Preview

Here’s a preview screenshot of changes made (WIP) to what I call the “course view” of Courselect with feedbacks from Richard and Linda.
You’ll notice that the sections have been moved to below the course description area and grouped into their appropriate section types. This part isn’t nearly completed yet, so it could show up as [...]