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 [...]
With the breaks between my food munching and playing with my baby niece, there are new updates coming for Courselect (no no, it’s not another abandoned student project). Right now a lot of the existing code is being re-written and modularized for future extensions. The new dataminer is much more robust than the previous version [...]
This week’s Imprint issue’s cover story talks about how UW Retail Services is essentially scamming Feds out of $18,000 in the acquisition of term-by-term textbook list. What used to be provided freely to the Feds Used Bookstore is now going to cost Feds $6000/term for the list of books. This is quite rediculous considering that [...]
My new business cards finally came in the mail yesterday! I got a set of cards that says “Hello World” in a variety of languages and colours. Combined with the website… it is like one nerdy marketing campaign! (Complete with QR code vCards) I also got a small set with uwlive.ca and TWSA logos on [...]
Courselect received a “small” refresh tonight with textbook purchase and selling feature! I’ve already went ahead and added a few books to the system so that you can see how it works. Technical stuff aside for now, I find this feature incredibly useful! In the screenshot below, it shows prices from Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. The [...]
From the lack of blog posts in the last 2 weeks and a load of obscure Twitter messages, you may have guessed that I was up to something. Well, your suspicions are very right! I hereby present you with, Courselect, preview edition! What is it you ask? Well, it is an attempt at unifying all [...]
Just about 15 minutes ago… an insane amount of rain came down. It was just dying down when I snapped this picture out the window towards the park trail behind the apartment. I was just about to upload this photo when all of the sudden a huge flash of light fills my room, the lights [...]
I came across this pretty nifty light-weight prototyping tool Pencil on the weekend. If you follow my del.icio.us bookmarks (as seen on homepage), you would’ve caught it earlier. I have been busy with finishing up the end little bits of the OS project and catching up with school readings so I haven’t had the chance [...]
My friend was over earlier this morning to pick up some stuff and we started talking about the poor UI in your typical financial and business applications (even the very thoroughly researched Bloomberg terminal). There so much innovations yet to be done in these applications, and it’s much easier to get people to pay up [...]
The new website design has now been published! The old design had a somewhat of a elegant feel to it, but it wasn’t very photo-friendly. With this new design its kind of a fusion of swiss and web 2.0. What I mean by swiss is really the exclusive use of Arial and Helvetica throughout the [...]
