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Unwinding in the Catlins
We spent the long weekend at Papatowai in the Catlins. Labour weekend being the traditional start-of-summer, the weather was traditionally dreadful. Saturday was very wet indeed but cleared on Sunday for a stunner of a day on Monday. I did no work at all. I took a PhD I’m reviewing, but I’m sorry Laura, it […]
Posted in: Otago
eLivingCampus on to iteration three
October 22, 2008
As you know, our software engineering classes are developing the information systems that will power the LivingCampus. At the end of the second iteration student groups have presented their functional deliverables to the clients (flickr). In teaching the Agile Development Framework we focus on the development cycle in the first two iterations. Although the […]
eLivingCampus wireframes and paper prototyping
October 22, 2008
Robert Fulghum famously wrote that all he really needed to know he learned in kindergarten. He meant, of course, the important stuff like sharing and not hitting, but perhaps he also meant cutting out. In the development of the eLivingCampus we’ve been doing just that with our paper based prototyping. We first develop wireframe […]
eLivingCampus Dialogue diagrams
October 21, 2008
The Agile Development Framework we’re following for the development of the eLivingCampus is very much user focussed. We’ve just spent a few days developing dialogue diagrams that explore possible flows of interaction. The basis for this process is an analysis of each task (person interacting with a functional requirement = a task). I think […]
The risk of ignoring them?
October 20, 2008
Dr Colin Boswell, my colleague at NACCQ, sends me nuggets. This time he’s sent news of a new report from Gartner “Green IT falls off the agenda“. ZDnet reports “The report lists the top 10 strategic technologies as follows, with green IT slipping from first position in the previous list, released in late 2007, […]
Posted in: Computing for Sustainability
October 28, 2008
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