Bud's Student blog

Fall 2007 Closes at Midnight Friday 12/14 for IS247

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:12:59 -0500

We 're closing off blogging at 12:00 in 45 minutes. Good luck with the term.

Project 2 Iteration Blogging

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:09:28 -0500

n IS449 and IS696, one member in each student group should write a blog post with links to the group site. You should also include a link to your slides. The post should be tagged as follows:

NameOfGroup
Iteration 2

Then all students in IS696 and IS449 should review all of their projects in their own class as well as the other class. The reviews should be tagged:

Name of the group you are reviewing.
Iteration 2 Review

Project Iteration 1 Blogging

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:25:57 -0500

In IS449 and IS696, one member in each student group should write a blog post with links to the group site. You should also include a link to your slides. The post should be tagged as follows:

NameOfGroup
Iteration 1

Then all students in IS696 and IS449 should review all of their projects in their own class as well as the other class. The reviews should be tagged:

Name of the group you are reviewing.
Iteration 1 Review

Bob Dylan

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:10:22 -0500

My IS247 slides for 9/25

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:38:01 -0500

emuonline seems to be broken, so I'm posting the slides here. IS247-3-Links.pdf

Agile in the real world

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:52:27 -0500

Mike in IS449 raises an interesting point:

Agile Web is a great concept, but my dad's business doesn't implement that process of producing systems if I understand him right. He is still mainly directed by the systems design life cycle, most of the time less than even that because of the demand of customers. So are the theories of agile the direction the market is moving or will it be an even more refined era of systems integration that it heads to? It is hard to tell but it will definately be notably important to be familiar with both.Mike Souders

To which Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror seems to respond:

Often, you can't even begin to accurately estimate how long something will take until you start doing it. At least some of it. That's why so many teams turn to agile, iterative development techniques; part of each iteration involves exploring all those unknowns and turning them into slightly-less-unknowns for the next iteration. The faster we iterate, the closer we get to an accurate estimate, and the more work we get done along the way. We plan by doing.Coding Horror

You should also have a look at this interview with Rich Sheridan of Menlo Innovations: Innovating in a Mature Market. The real point though is not that agile is great, rather it's that project management is about mitigating risk. SDLC takes one approach to risk mitigation that relies on extensive pre-implementation planning. Agile takes another that relies on attempting to implement components very early on and then re-estimating effort for the whole project based on actual data. People have turned to agile methods because they feel there is often not enough accurate data to undertake the detailed planning required to make SDLC succeed. However, at the end of the day, as Mike notes, you're really obligated to communicate with the people who are paying the bills and use the method they require.

You must have your first 5 done by a week from the class where we started blogging

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:56:50 -0500

Some people are wondering, but you must have five posts completed by the first week after we started blogging in class.

Writing code

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:59:01 -0500

A number of students have noted issues with writing code and one noted a solution. As it turns out, there is a very easy way to post html code in a post, it's the xmp element written as follows: some code For instance, the following line uses the xmp to show the code for linking to my site: <a href="http://budgibson.com">my site</a> The problem with xmp is that you can't really use it to display an element in line and you can't use it to enclose itself. For that, you'll have to use Tobias Steck's solution.

Another entry

Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:37:27 -0500

Will this work.

Are there internal server errors

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:35:14 -0500

I am writing this to make sure that students can still post to their blogs.

Entry vs Page - Erwin

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 16:28:16 -0500

Erwin notes:

I spent almost two hours to play around with this blog, but still could not differentiate the use of Entry vs Page.

Use pages for stuff you want to keep around for a long time and maybe revise every so often. For instance, you could create a page for your individual projects. Entries are more for articles and comments. I'm looking for entries, not so much pages.

This is my first entry for Fall 2007

Wed, 05 Sep 2007 16:46:53 -0500

I hope everyone will enjoy my blog post. I'm excited to be teaching IS247, IS449, and IS696 this year.