The past week has been no less than crazy for me and the entire Project IRIS team. From designing the overall presentation for hitting a moving target down to creating an unbelievable sales pitch, we all did the best we could have possibly done to bring home a deserved 3rd place in the Innovation Design [...]
Scott et al,
I am pleased to inform you that your project entry has been selected to represent the University of Waterloo ‘A’ at the 2010 Ontario Engineering Competition, taking place January 29 – 31.
Oh… January is going to be so busy…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
FYDP Symposium @ DC Center on Jan 21.
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 [...]
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 UW [...]
