Archive for August, 2008

August 14th, 2008

I cannot get down, if my web design is not brown.. err.. wait.

Today we met with RedWhale via conference call to see the prototype design for Artemis.  It was nice looking overall but I can’t really say I was expecting it to be brown.

Everyone was assigned the task of looking it over and gathering some thoughts for tomorrow’s regular team meeting.  I noticed how it was missing activity indicators for AJAX requests and Chara suggested an archer icon.  And it really looks like were gonna need more space or less data in the middle sections.

I found a nice calendar class written in Ruby some time ago, I think we could use that for the visual date stuff.

• Posted in Design, Meeting Notes
August 1st, 2008

Forcing the square data into the round table

We had a project meeting today.  Jill and Bill discussed some data issues they found with migrating data from the old schemas into our new schemas.  They said sometimes data would be changed simply to keep analysis scripts from breaking down.  A number of things will need to be researched to fix up the data.

Bill made a comment how I was the “validation king” with regards to form validations.  I never thought of myself that way but I do try make sure and think of every way a form could be misused or broken by a user.  All I can says is “functional tests to the rescue!”  :)

The design company is taking a bit longer than David anticipated to get the basic design framework back to us for review.  I’m very anxious to see what our project is going to look like.  I hope it’s not green.  I hate green.

• Posted in Meeting Notes