Project Journal: Week 8 (October 16-23th)

Work has been done on adding constraints to the different tables already within Amazon Web Services. We're used to using OracleSQL so we're on that little learning curve that lets us migrate from OracleSQL to MySQL (not a big difference). Next week we will introduce to our classmates the progress we have made, so we …

Project Journal: Week 7 (October 9-16th)

The tables were reviewed again; at the end some columns were added and others were removed. Changes were made to the excel file to keep CRUD up-to-date on the changes that were made. Work has been done on the issues that are emerging by working with Amazon Web Services. Next week we will have our …

Project Journal: Week 6 (October 2-9th)

After Semana i, a meeting was held with the client to obtain feedback and to report the progress of the project. We moved our database from the university web server (more complex to access it) to Amazon Web Services (using MySQL). So, we can tell that we already complete the database part.

Project Journal: Week 5 (September 18-24th)

This week, what we did was to change some of the pages of the forms to work as modal and on any of the pages as they were added to the header. The front end is ready for the image but can change depending on customer feedback and needs that can come out by integrating …

Project Journal: Week 4 (September 11-18th)

During this week, the forms were made that needed to be done to add different things. The forms that were made were for new customer, new payment, new expense, new pending and corrections were made to the new property form page to add fields to add the missing information and also the design was changed …

Project Journal: Week 3 (September 4-11th)

September 11 is the deadline for the first deliverable of this project. That's why we had to redouble our efforts this week. Work continued on the frontend, some content (still fictitious) was added and certain details that worked poorly last week were corrected. We believe that the frontend is finished, but of course there may …

Project Journal: Week 2 (August 28-September 4th)

This week we were working a bit with the frontend of the web application, mainly how we wanted the main page to be viewed. We decided to use a header that is currently present on all the pages that integrate the application. We had a meeting with the owner of the company and he said …

Project Journal: Week 1 (August 21-28th)

This week was mainly dedicated to define with which NGO company we will collaborate for the project. Christian tried to contact a person who takes care of animals, but he was unsuccessful. Finally, with the help of the teacher, we got in touch with a Ney relative who has a project related to property rent. …

Music with a Creative Commons license

Everybody thinks that having a band or being a singer means that you must protect your creations and make money with them. And most of the artists do that. But there are some bands that release their albums for free under a Creative Commons license, so their fans can download it and listen to it, …

Sin temor al cambio

¡Hola a todos! Ahora les estaré escribiendo sobre la importancia de contar con un control de cambios en un proyecto de software, basándonos, como siempre, en el libro Software Project Survival Guide. Notarán que en los próximos posts seré más específico en cuanto a los temas. Un control de cambios nos permite mantener en orden todo lo …