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 [...]

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 [...]

I have created a small little graphic to summarize my textbook buying experience from UBC bookstores and the jerks at UW bookstore. Enough said. Guess where I am buying my books next time? (Assuming that I buy them within Canada) Note: The customer service portion is based on the process of returning a book… too [...]

Today was a pretty relaxed day at work with team development meetings, team lunches and co-ordination meetings. The farewell wine and cheese in somewhat of a UE tradition at the end of the day really marked the beginning of the weekend. It just occurred to me today that the poor Crystal Reports team next door [...]

So as some of you may know, I’ve been buying my books one way or another from Taiwan. But I sort of forgot about my econ textbooks on my shopping list this time, so I ended up having to look towards SFU and UBC bookstores for my textbook needs. But turns out that the UBC [...]