I was excited! And then I was like… Thanks Mozilla.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]