Karen Au's COGS 121 Blog: HCI Programming

Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Project Progress

So far, we are able to retrieve the weather feed and display it. We are able to get and parse weather information, thanks to Divya. We are also working on the sidebar, designing the css (for the popups, etc.), inserting weather information into the correct places on google calendar designed the css, and extracting location and time data from the events. We have had a bit of trouble finding meeting times as the end of the quarter nears, but hopefully we will have all the parts to be able to get this together.

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Project Presentation & Progress

I have been a bit confused about where to keep track of updates about project progress and have been using the wiki as the main source of communication. The current site address has been changed to:
Group Blog: http://gweather.blogspot.com/
However, I will continue updating this blog from now on just in case, since Dr. Hollan mentioned in class that it might still be a part of our grade.
Last week, we completed our project presentations. We were worried about changing our project proposal, since Patrick was so excited about the Del.ic.ious idea. However, we hoped to be convincing in that we found the gWeather project to be more personally interesting to our group members. We worked a lot on Photoshop-ing mockups of our initial prototype to provide an easy visualization for the audience. Another team member offered us advice about using the greasemonkey script to overlay our weather information on google calendar, which will be extremely useful; this will save a lot of time in not re-coding another calendar similar to google calendar. Since then, we have met and did the following:
1. Finalize Specifications, functionalities and test cases for gWeather
2. Played with some userscripts from greasemonkey (Thank you Dan for the advice!!!)
3. Discussed functionalities of gWeather
4. Created the Sidebar and Menus
5. Figured out the integration of "Weather Box" with "Event Box"

Tuesday, May 02, 2006

Moving to Group Blog and Group Wiki

Group name: ??
members names: Kelly Miyashiro, Eric Pan, Divya Kumar, Karen Au
Blog link: dekk121.blogspot.com
Wiki link: http://wombatsarefuzzy.com/wiki