Week13

5/Dec/2010


To update document is not such easy. Some of the functions of the system has changed based on the client's requirements but been there without updating. I cannot remember why "Contact Person" was the one of the individual function. It's not more than one part of the client details. Why it was stand alone? This kind of weird things are everywhere. It is good chance to know how to write documents but these are all for academic purpose. I wonder what is the documentation in industry? As reference, I would like to see the real ones.



4/Dec/2010

Working on documents. My tasks are project proposal, analysis report and planning report. Honestly I don't like them. But I gotta do. Proposal is almost done already but I need to update it as of the project closing. Analysis document, I need to update some of the UML because they were changed at the end of the project but we didn't update them. Planning report, why we need it in addition to proposal? Anyway, I updated the Gantt chart.



3/Dec/2010


Final presentation day. In the morning, we got problem. One of the two network cards of the server worn out. It seemed everyone tried to make our project so thrilling which we don't want. 10:00am was starting time but fortunately some people were late and we got another 10 minutes and at the very last moment, all fixed. Our final presentation went pretty well and I am quite happy. Though after the presentation we got good reputation from all audience, I made a small and big mistake. It was 10:10am. I started the presentation with the word "Good afternoon!" Oh, god!! Actually I noticed I might say something wrong. Anyway, the system development is over now though there are still some academic documentation left. Thank you my awesome team mates.



2/Dec/2010


Important day before the big day. We planed for the tomorrow's presentation and practised a couple of times. There were small errors which we hadn't realized but solved. When displaying our system on a big screen, I thought "we did well" and am happy with the project. Our supervisor gave us great help, great tips. It' absolutely good experience. One more step to go.




1/Dec/2010


We still keep working on the project for error-free. Basically my part has done already so I help my team mate's page by reforming it. His part is pretty complexed but he understood his code so it may be hard to think unexpected way of use for him. And we all has been worked individually, separately so some parts haven't got consistency still yet. So reforming works pretty well I think. And to see other people's work is quite interesting. I normally use C# code behind but he uses ASP.Net controls. Different ways, different solutions.




30/Nov/2010


Subversion must be really handy software but we don't know how to deal with it. We found many files were not updated and broken. We needed to prepare for the final presentation but spent full morning to fix the problems. And besides that, there was server problem as well. We were asked to upload our system to server for the final presentation but what the college prepared for us was an empty box. Even OS wasn't there. Through the last three months we have learnt organization skill is important. We didn't have any enough information for this semester so we are in trouble. It seems the college is trying to confuse us.  Anyway because of these reason, the final presentation is postponed to this Friday. Three more days to go.




29/Nov/2010

Last week hopefully. There were three stuff we need to solve in the system. One was the feedback from the last presentation. Auto generate invoice number. Not hard. Done. Second one is the auto complete text box for the client search. I tried to do that but not easy. I spent whole night yesterday. It seemed nearly achieved but something wrong. And finally this morning, I achieved. Good. I couldn't get the reason but after many try with many resources, succeeded. Last one is not solved yet. PDF. Basically ASP.Net works at the web server and controls are the same. But PDF should work at the client side. So that it's not easy. I keep trying tonight. For the tomorrow's final presentation, we got many tips from our supervisor and I need to be the final presenter. So I spent a few hours to think about the structure and what we need to speak tomorrow. Important day. I have to do my best otherwise my team member's effort will be disturbed.