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icemountain: RSSed Out

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I must admit that through my rather unsuccessful efforts of RSS implementation, I have learned a tremendous amount of information. I feel like I am oh so very close to the real deal - it produces a static feed (I think) that loads into sage - but I'm missing something and I just can't put my finger on it.

I do hope you are turning in the static feed for partial extra credit.  Also, I did offer office hours to talk about this sort of thing.  Make sure to try to get some kind of points.

Go Blue: Project 2: Requirement 4

Link: Go Blue: Project 2: Requirement 4.

Requirement 4 says that "html (or other) mock-up of the functionality you choose not to implement. You should hand in each html page."

Just do per the requirement as written.  Most people are printing the web pages per that requirement.

Smiling_Chen: Question about final report

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For the write-up, shall I just descibe some most important reports to show exactly how the company can use and benefit from them. Is that what you are looking for?

That sounds good.

Big Dog: Project 2 questions

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The first one is about the comments that are to be included in the stylesheets and XSQL pages. How in depth do you want them to be? We just made little comments where we edited the stylesheets made by the professor with our own information. Is this sufficient or is more explanation needed? Second, we were wondering where the lsttab report is?

The comments just have to be adequate to say what you did.  Depth is not a requirement.  As regards the second question.  I responded to that one already.

M Go Blue: Update Forms

Link: M Go Blue: Update Forms.

So, I thought I'd blog about our success, and give some pointers to any other group that is considering implementing a similar ability, as it was kind of frustrating to figure out.

This is a great post that really helps the class.  Thanks Scott!

icemountain: RSS?

Link: icemountain: RSS?.

To get the minimal points, what exactly does the RSS have to do? I know it needs to produce static feeds, but for a site like ours, what would that entail? Would we be able to have an "announcements" section where the administrators could post annoucements on the homepage and then the dancers could subscribe to the RSS feed? And if so, would we be able to use a blog site like blogger.com to produce the feeds? So far I have been able to do this and have it load into Sage, but does that count?

The goal of this exercise was to get you to think about your project and how RSS could be used.  A feed generated by some software like a blogsite will not do the trick.

The exercise is a little unstructured.  Let me try to help.  So, one thing that you could do would be an RSS feed for new fund raisers.  What would that look like?  Consider this tutorial on RSS originally provided by Maulin.  Use RSS 2.0 (I think it is simpler).  I think you will see it is like filling in the blanks.

55699: requirement 6 on the project - after speaking with justin

Link: 55699: requirement 6 on the project - after speaking with justin.

A lsttab report showing the Oracle tables and views you are using for Project 2. This report should not list any extraneous tables or views that do not relate to the project.

I would run list_column_info_for_all.sql to produce this.

Go Blue: Our Dance Marathon Website

Link: Go Blue: Our Dance Marathon Website.

Although it isn't the most appealing to the eye, when you insert information it shows up on our tables which I think is very cool.  I NEVER imagined being able to make something like this!!!  We will continue to fix the problems and make improvements in our website until the due date, but so far so good!

Well, I looked at the site, and it seemed fine to me.  Don't worry about having a perfect looking site.  You've satisfied the requirement on that.  I'm really looking for functionality over beauty.  We spent the class on functionality.

Big Blog in the Sky: Bud's availability

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Bud, last week you said you'd be out of town for the greater part of this week.  I was wondering what your office hours-type availability is going to be like for the week.  Thanks.

I am returning early and will be available for appointment after 3 PM tomorrow afternoon.

Go Blue: Presentations

Link: Go Blue: Presentations.

I really enjoyed listening to everyone's presentations today.   Everyone has really done a great job - I wish we could all get A 's!!!  I do like how we got to see what the rest of the class is doing before we turn in our final project as I've never had a class where that happened.  I think our group got a lot of good ideas from the other groups and hopefully some groups got ideas from us as well.   I really like how all the other groups actually had a web page and I can't believe we didn't think to do that, so that is one thing we will definitely get done.

This was actually the whole point of the presentations.  Kind of like going to church and wearing your Sunday best (or I suppose synagogue and Saturday best, though I don't think that expression actually exists).  Everybody sees the best on offer.  What makes sense to do.

I too would like to reward a class's overall high level of performance.  I realize it is going to sting to get a B- in this class if you have worked really hard.  I do not expect that that will happen.