Friday, March 24, 2017
Monday, March 1, 2010
Long time no see
Wats up people?? I have been off blogger for some time now. Actually past few days have been very interesting for me. I did some coding for DevCrib. It looks like I can implement it now. Also me and some of my friends are trying to start some sort of t-shirt printing business. When we tried to come up with cool ideas for tees, it turns out that we are pretty good at it. Right now we are searching for some vendor who can print our ideas on tees. Its an experiment, we will see if it fetches us something.
The other day I got a mail stating that there is 3 day symposia on "Web technology to improve the quality of education" from July 1 - 3, 2010 at IIT Bombay. I am trying to get StudNet online before it so that I can tell people there how I am trying to use "Web" to improve the quality of education.
<** fingers crossed **>
The other day I got a mail stating that there is 3 day symposia on "Web technology to improve the quality of education" from July 1 - 3, 2010 at IIT Bombay. I am trying to get StudNet online before it so that I can tell people there how I am trying to use "Web" to improve the quality of education.
<** fingers crossed **>
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
DevCrib (Technical dicussion forum)
Me and my fellow developer have divided tasks for the 1st phase of StudNet. He will be handling the social networking and Blog and I will be handling the DevCrib (technical dicussion forum).
The basic structure of DevCrib is finalised now. It will be like,
Category: There will be several categories under which students can post their threads.
Forum: Each category will be divided in many forums. Students can find the appropriate forum to post their topics.
Topics: These will be topic under Forums for which students can post threads.
Threads: These are the actual threads started by students.
As you can see that this is in a hierarchical manner: Category > Forum > Topic > Thread
The features that we have discussed will be mostly similar to forums that already exist. In addtion to those evry student will be given points or rewards for every post or answers they give to questions asked or anything like this so that students can feel rewarded for whatever they are contributing. The points will be rewarded by other fellow students. Level of students will rise as they are rewarded more points. I feel so much excited about it. Its going to be really cool.
Design for the social networking part is also finalised. Its on paper right now, once I design it on some graphic editor I will upload it too. The way we are implementing our Blog service is a little bit 'hatke'. We are giving blog service in two ways. One will be like each student will be having his own space for blog (the usual one), the other one will be something called as "Collaborative Blog". Here students will write their blog entries under a specific topic under which others can also wirte. Anyone visiting a topic can see students views and opinions about that particular topic. They can comment over others views or opinions. Students will 'blog collaboratively'. This will be really cool if you think about it.
Ok, c ya l8r.. Gotta get back at database designing for DevCrib.
The basic structure of DevCrib is finalised now. It will be like,
Category: There will be several categories under which students can post their threads.
Forum: Each category will be divided in many forums. Students can find the appropriate forum to post their topics.
Topics: These will be topic under Forums for which students can post threads.
Threads: These are the actual threads started by students.
As you can see that this is in a hierarchical manner: Category > Forum > Topic > Thread
The features that we have discussed will be mostly similar to forums that already exist. In addtion to those evry student will be given points or rewards for every post or answers they give to questions asked or anything like this so that students can feel rewarded for whatever they are contributing. The points will be rewarded by other fellow students. Level of students will rise as they are rewarded more points. I feel so much excited about it. Its going to be really cool.
Design for the social networking part is also finalised. Its on paper right now, once I design it on some graphic editor I will upload it too. The way we are implementing our Blog service is a little bit 'hatke'. We are giving blog service in two ways. One will be like each student will be having his own space for blog (the usual one), the other one will be something called as "Collaborative Blog". Here students will write their blog entries under a specific topic under which others can also wirte. Anyone visiting a topic can see students views and opinions about that particular topic. They can comment over others views or opinions. Students will 'blog collaboratively'. This will be really cool if you think about it.
Ok, c ya l8r.. Gotta get back at database designing for DevCrib.
Monday, February 1, 2010
StudNet kicks off
Me and my friend felt that it is high time that we start working on the real thing. We have decided to implement Social networking, blog, and DevCrib (technical discussion forum) initially. We will launch our site with these features and afterwards we will keep on adding other features like CodeBase, KnolBase, University etc along with upgradations of previous features.
First thing was to design the database. We brainstormed for like 2 hours and came up with the tables we are going to use. Then my friend (Malik) decided on the fields that those table are going to have. We have got the tables ready with us. Design of the pages are almost done. We feel satisfied with the progress that we are making. I hope we dont lose focus. For implementing this we need to learn some new technologies, for ex. Ajax. I have been reading about Ajax, its really cool and I can only imagine how much more cooler its going to be when we start using Ajax.
While braintorming we felt that we need more developers to get on with rest of the features or just help out with current ones. So if anyone wants to join is more than welcome.
First thing was to design the database. We brainstormed for like 2 hours and came up with the tables we are going to use. Then my friend (Malik) decided on the fields that those table are going to have. We have got the tables ready with us. Design of the pages are almost done. We feel satisfied with the progress that we are making. I hope we dont lose focus. For implementing this we need to learn some new technologies, for ex. Ajax. I have been reading about Ajax, its really cool and I can only imagine how much more cooler its going to be when we start using Ajax.
While braintorming we felt that we need more developers to get on with rest of the features or just help out with current ones. So if anyone wants to join is more than welcome.
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Blog completed
Finally the Blog is completed. Its a very simple Blog system. Now I have a much better understanding of PHP and MySQL. The Blog is still on my local server. Now I am thinking of starting my work on StudNet.
The first thing I am planning to implement is a network of users. Just the "Members" part of StudNet. This will have the login page, signup page initially, after logging in the Profile page will be displayed. User will be able to edit the Profile page. The right column will have the list of his friends. There will also be a "Board" where he can write his status updates or what is he currently doing or basically get in touch with his friends.
Gotta Code.
The first thing I am planning to implement is a network of users. Just the "Members" part of StudNet. This will have the login page, signup page initially, after logging in the Profile page will be displayed. User will be able to edit the Profile page. The right column will have the list of his friends. There will also be a "Board" where he can write his status updates or what is he currently doing or basically get in touch with his friends.
Gotta Code.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Status update
I was able to connect to mysql using MAMP and PHPEclipse. THe problem was with a missing space: mysql -u root -proot which should have been like mysql -u root -p root. So now everything is working and I have created the index page displaying the blog entry with comments too. Next step is to enhance the index.php page, introduce a viewentry.php page through which we can see each blog entry seperately with the comments. After that comes the turn of addentry.php and addcomments.php page, filename explains what are they meant for.
Now that the initial hurdles are crossed I have to change the gear and speed up my development.
Now that the initial hurdles are crossed I have to change the gear and speed up my development.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Idiots Are Here
The other day I cam across Google's site hosting service, Google Sites, so I thought of having one of mine there. I am not surprised by the ease with which I created my site, Idiots are here. Google Sites is really easy to use. Some very cool features are there. Nice looking templates. If someone just wants to create a static website then I believe that Google Sites is the best out there. You can even link your Google site to external domain name (www.example.com).
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