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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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…

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 information that [...]