Category Archives: Work on Project

News of the World!

Posted on January 6, 2010 by admin

Walking Through Time was featured as a full page news story in the Scottish national newspaper The Sunday Herald. On page 5 too! check out the online version here: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/education/latest-iphone-app-lets-users-satnav-through-time-1.995767 it seems to have captured the publics imagination. Published on … Continue reading →

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User Participation

Posted on November 18, 2009 by admin

User Participation Dave and Chris have previously blogged about the test-run with the Historical Society, which was largely unsuccessful due to a series of problems from the outset. Despite not being able to fully access the application (but having seen … Continue reading →

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Walking Through Time Project Summary – Development

Posted on November 6, 2009 by admin

In the spirit of Chris’s post on SWOT’ing.   I thought I would give a similar post from the development side. Strengths Web Application – After some initial wobbles we were set on doing a Web Application which paid of for … Continue reading →

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This Happened – it happened even if I wasn’t quite ready for it

Posted on October 13, 2009 by admin

I was a little less than prepared (I blame last weeks knee injury) but I presented at This Happened last night. We opted for a little bit of tech presentation and I tried to make it as accessible as possible … Continue reading →

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A little bit of Cache goes a long way – a win

Posted on September 28, 2009 by admin

Petra enabled some of the compression and caching on the tomcat server and too great success. Petra and my tests have been against a 3GS and Chris loaned us a 3G to do some testing.  A little bit of pre-caching … Continue reading →

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Web App fail?

Posted on September 28, 2009 by admin

The first round of testing that Karlyn performed was a resounding… well, fail to be honest.  I received a phone call bright and early one morning with the results of Karlyn’s testing. To be honest it just didn’t work for … Continue reading →

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lack of blogging – must mean we are busy

Posted on September 28, 2009 by admin

Since getting back from the JICRI conference we have been very quiet on the blog.  This doesn’t mean we haven’t been up to much (quite the opposite) but we have been a bit busy with other project commitments but I … Continue reading →

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Cross Platform?

Posted on August 18, 2009 by admin

One of our goals was to try and produce something which worked cross platform.  We recognised this was a bit of a steep call but our lofty goals haven’t stopped us this far.  As a lot of our earlier work … Continue reading →

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Testing Times Ahead!

Posted on August 17, 2009 by admin

Chris is going to have good play with the version 1 of the application. So we have produced a very quick summary of the available functions in the first phase of testing

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Work on the Basics

Posted on August 4, 2009 by admin

With our recent successes in prototpying our next step is to get the basic functionality agreed: Create Database Model -> 1 day follow the user – > poll position – 1 day Navigation across the top – to change the … Continue reading →

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