Graduation
I graduated yesterday. Got to wear the hat and the gown and was also awarded the “Being Digital” award which I’m sharing with Steve.
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I graduated yesterday. Got to wear the hat and the gown and was also awarded the “Being Digital” award which I’m sharing with Steve.
My results arrived today and I got nice big fat 2:1. After 5 years of juggling family stuff, work and uni deadlines I’m pretty well chuffed if not a little relieved. And big well dones also to Jamie, Chelle and Steve
Presented my project today, apart from a hiccup with the video feed not working and the net taking forever to log me in and then do anything I think it went ok. Can’t believe that I forgot to include the url of my project in the slides so thanks Dan for giving me the opportunity [...]
Handed my project in today. The original plan was to hand it in yesterday but some problems with printing and DVD cases put a stop to that. So once again, I was there at 8.40 so that I could make sure that I was at the front for 10 as I was supposed to be [...]
Here’s a short movie which hopefully goes some way to explaining the project and my research behind it. View movie 11.6MB
Here’s the abstract for my project – download and enjoy. Abstract
Shot some video with Jamie and Chelle earlier today showing them using the system. My plan for the video is to have stills of each of us using the swap app at various different stages with relevant text from my presentation slides interspersed amongst them. Not sure of the soundtrack yet. There’s a couple of [...]
Just finished testing the recycle version of phone2fone and everything is looking good with it at the mo. This differs quite a bit from the other 2 as an image is loaded up at the time of registering an item to swap and there is no way of guaranteeing that a swap has been completed [...]
The trading card game is now finished. Preliminary testing is looking good so far and to celebrate this momentous occasion I’ve had a crack at padding out the website. I’ve added a registration page and an about page which does sound a bit like the home page at the mo but that’ll change once I’ve [...]
I’ve just finished testing the main app of phone2fone which is the file share/swapping app. I’ve just got the game to finish off and the freecycle version to do. I’ve been looking at WURFL which essentially is an XML file containing information about the capabilities and features of most of the mobile phones. There are [...]