Sample Data
One more thing… On Saturday morning I was thinking about the large amount of test data we have from our existing system. Much of it is of little use, since we want to import the metadata afresh, but...
View ArticleIteration 3
We’re starting to get the hang of the iteration planning – although we realised we’d undercommitted a bit for iteration 3 so it wasn’t entirely surprising, we ended up adding some extra user stories to...
View ArticleIteration 4
A lot of the work that went into iteration 4 was to bring together the various bits of code together to turn a list of features into a working system. It’s not very pretty and the workflow needs a bit...
View ArticleUniversity Structure and Access Controls
So, this is the big scary question. How on earth do you model a University? – and not just ours, but potentially any of them. We had a brief discussion about this early on to get our heads round the...
View ArticleCreating a themable application in Zend
We are using the Zend Framework as the basis for list8D and whilst Zend has a good view layer it does not support having multiple themes, not out of the box anyway. Luckily the classes responsible for...
View ArticleWe’re still here
It has been over four months since our last up date and I just wanted to let every one interested in the project know that we’re still here. The lack of updates is in no way because of a lack of...
View ArticleA new resolution: frequent progress reports
With the shocking realisation that we had neglected the project blog for 4 months now I have resolved to blog on a frequent basis with a brief update of the changes that have been made to the...
View ArticleChanges to list8D visualised with Gource
At the weekend I stumbled upon a cool piece of software called Gource which allows you visualise changes to version control repositories. This is a Gource video of list8D’s changes since we started...
View ArticleNew feature: Front end application
I’ve just finished committing the front end application to the repository, its finished but hasn’t been user tested yet so am still expecting a certain about of revision over the coming months. The...
View ArticleSome admin screenshots
Since the admin interface has evolved quite a bit since we posted the concept that we were planning to implement i thought I would post some screenshots of the admin interface… Report post
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