http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/ My Learning Remix blog en Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:21:19 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tobias and Jessica: removing the alert box; enhancing design and layout using CSS and table element. We added error handling if either Google API or Yelp API do not give a response back. Please click to review our page and presentation. For those of you who do not have facebook account: username: jaka.robertson2@gmail.com password: 'jobfriends' (without the single quote)]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/is696-interest-location-finder-update.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/is696-interest-location-finder-update.shtml Interest Location Finder IS696 update Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:21:19 -0500 Yelp API. Please review and give us any feedback for our Iteration 3. About our mashup: 1. retrieve and display user and user's friends data (interests and location) from FaceBook. 2. locate places (from user data) using AJAX Search and display map using GoogleMap. 3. provide review of selected search result from Yelp service. FYI: we are going to enhance the layout/design and turn off the alert box for our final project. If you don't have facebook account, please use the following: username: jaka.robertson2@gmail.com password: 'jobfriends' (without the single quote) ]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/is696-interest-location-finder-group1-update.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/is696-interest-location-finder-group1-update.shtml Group-1 Interest Location Finder IS696 update Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:53:58 -0500 your page and see the changes on your code, specifically at your css code. However, I'm using IE6 and as you mentioned before, the page is still having layout issue with IE6. One suggestion that you might want to consider is to use table element to display the list of search result. Good luck guys! ]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/musicworld-iteration-3-review-is696-1.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/musicworld-iteration-3-review-is696-1.shtml IS696 Iteration 3 Review Music World Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:09:34 -0500 page again and tried all the functionalities, they all work well: the ending address has a default value from Ashley's restaurant; the default zip code for starting address is 48197; and adding driving direction option on info marker. Good luck on your presentation guys! One thing that I noticed from using mapquest webservice is that if I put incorrect address (eq. Seattle, WA, 48197), it gets prioritized by the zip code value, while using googlemaps, it gets prioritized by the city/state value. ]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/pub-searcher-iteration-3-review.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/pub-searcher-iteration-3-review.shtml IS449 Iteration 3 Review PubSearcher Fri, 07 Dec 2007 09:48:14 -0500 Your mashup is very useful to many of us. One suggestion is to put a "legend" to explain what green/red marker means. As for the functionality, it seems to be working well, except for one scenario. Please use my facebook login: 1. username: jaka.robertson2@gmail.com, password:'jobfriends' (without the single quote) 2. put "administrator" as the keyword 3. Map will display 3 green markers (in WA, MI, TX) and 1 red marker (in CA). 4. Click on any green marker, it won't display the list of the jobs. ]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/pre-iteration3-review-jobfriends-is449.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/pre-iteration3-review-jobfriends-is449.shtml issue Iteration 3 Review JobFriends review Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:22:11 -0500 your page, I have couple suggestions that you might want to consider: 1. Since you put Ashley's Restaurant as a default InfoMarker, then put Ashley's address at the "Ending Address" as well. 2. Error handling. When I click "Get Direction" without "Starting Address", MapQuest assumes the starting address is from "somewhere in Colorado area". Good luck guys on your presentation!]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/team-pub-searcher-iteration-3-reviews.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/team-pub-searcher-iteration-3-reviews.shtml IS449 Iteration 3 Review PubSearcher Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:09:10 -0500 previous blog, SERENA launched Mashup Maker for business users. And I just read an article about SERENA just began shipping their product called Serena Business Mashups 2008 platform. The tools are free but pricing for mashups deployment via full installed version begins at $10,000. I still haven't got a chance to try the tool yet, hopefully soon once I finished Project Iteration 3 :)]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/serenas-mashups.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/serenas-mashups.shtml article IS696 mashup SERENA Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:40:20 -0500 complaints about Windows Vista, however, I just came across article that talks about security threats. And I just found out that Vista operating system is more secure compare than others as Halvar Flake, CEO of security firm Zynamics, explained. In addition to that, Microsoft has always been investing a lot of money on security for their products, even though we're not really sure a good result could come up with that much of money, because hackers always find a way to hack :)]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/vista-any-advantage.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/vista-any-advantage.shtml hacker security vista Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:16:54 -0500 Yelp API a week ago, but now I have incorporated two more APIs (googlemaps and AJAX search) into it. Initially, the page would only display two pieces information of a place, the name and address by taking phone number as the input. I thought that it wouldn't be so useful. And plus, since our project (InterestLocationFinder) is using these three APIs anyway, I took another step to incorporate all of them into my Mini Project 3 page. Now user is able to get full benefit from these 3 APIs, rich search results (from AJAX Search), ratings info (from Yelp) and user friendly map (from GoogleMaps). There is no limitation on what users can search on the mashup, however, if AJAX Search or Yelp could not find related info, then an alert message will pop up. Please click here to review my Mini Project 3. Click here to review my Initial Mini Project 3. ]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/mini-project-3-ygx-yelp-google-ajax-mashup.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/mini-project-3-ygx-yelp-google-ajax-mashup.shtml ajax googlemap IS696 mashup MiniProject3 yelp YGX Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:39:22 -0500 Pi Corporation, based in Seattle, is working on a product called Smart Desktop. Jon Herlocker, vice president of of engineering Pi Corporation, describes Smart Desktop as a program that is designed to group information by project. It unifies the information into a single view, so all the various files (from Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Project, FireFox, Excel, etc) will be displayed accordingly. Smart Desktop works with Microsoft applications, Adobe Acrobat, Google Docs and Zoho Sheets. There are some other companies working on products of this type and Microsoft is one of them. Microsoft develops a product called Center for Information Work.]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/smart-desktop-by-pi-corporation.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/smart-desktop-by-pi-corporation.shtml Center for Information Work Pi Smart Desktop Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:53:23 -0500 Software Configuration Management best practices.The article describes the challenges that project managers (PMO group) face and suggest key points that potentially could help them to reduce numbers of failed projects. Click here for further reading.]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/software-configuration-management-whitepaper.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/12/software-configuration-management-whitepaper.shtml article SCM whitepaper Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:23:54 -0500 JSON format instead of proprietary format in getting data from FaceBook api. Second is to add review and rating using Yelp api. And last is to improve the search functionality by adding more options. I have modified our code to use JSON format to grab data from FaceBook api. Click here to test the page and please let me know if you experience any difficulties. The page will redirect you to FaceBook login and display your and your friends' data (name, location, interests).]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/interest-location-finder-group1-progress-on-iteration-3.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/interest-location-finder-group1-progress-on-iteration-3.shtml Group-1 Interest Location Finder IS696 iteration 3 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:11:54 -0500 Paglo is an IT search engine that can help to analyze and discover information about your computers, networks and users. Paglo collects data across all IT silos and indexes them to uncover their relationships. For example, if you need to know about how many copies of certain software are installed on computers in order to comply with your license agreement, Paglo allows you to view the statistic in real time. Paglo also has the ability to share search queries with the Paglo community and with combination of Paglo's open API, it could lead to opportunities for a variety of mashups and dashboard widgets.]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/paglo-its-new-best-friend.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/paglo-its-new-best-friend.shtml article Paglo Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:31:55 -0500 XML and JSON. These two chapters would really help me to achieve one of our objectives for project iteration 3. Currently we are using proprietary "format" to save and get all data from FaceBook API. Our plan is to use JSON format since it is easiest to deal with JavaScript language.]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/json-vs-xml.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/json-vs-xml.shtml iteration 3 JSON update xml Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:51:33 -0500 CAI and IT Metrics & Productivity Institute host series of webinar related to Software Best Practices. Computer Aid Inc (CAI) is a consulting company that offers service in IT process transformation, business consulting, application support, application development, desktop services and staff augmentation. CAI founded organization called IT Metrics & Productivity Institute (ITMPI) to improve the practice and management of software development and maintenance. ITMPI promotes best practices guideline in Software Process, Software Metrics, Software Estimation and IT Governance. Click here to see the webinar series for 2007-2008 calendar. One of the webinars that might interest us is "Implementing Agile Development in New Teams" and it will be held on November 28th 2007 10:30am - 12pm EST.]]> http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/software-best-practices-webinar-series.shtml http://learningremix.emich.edu/Fall07/blog-5/2007/11/software-best-practices-webinar-series.shtml agile best practice CAI ITMPI webinar Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:09:36 -0500