The new Quest Student Information System update is no more than atrocious, especially when it took them years to plan for this change. Just from this first page after signing in, I already have issues with it.

Page title: “Campus-facing registry content” – whatever that means.
Content title: “Heng-Chun’s Student Center” – there exists something in my [...]

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 [...]

The Project IRIS team went out to the OCE Discovery conference on Monday and Tuesday to check out some of the innovations taking place right here in Ontario as well as taking away from valuable information from the conference presentations. We met a lot of interesting people at the conference and learned about their [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 as [...]

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 and [...]

It is with great excitement for me to report that Courselect reaches its first milestone within 5 days of its public debut. The website received over…

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 book [...]