Re: Microsoft Imagin Cup Entry

Toby A Inkster wrote:
j1mb0jay wrote:

Please can you have a read of my latest project design. Just
wondering if anyone can think of things that I have missed out.
http://users.aber.ac.uk/jap6/meety.html

Some ideas for further development:

1. This seems to be a specialised case of a calendar application.
Consider having the server provide a "feed" of the data in
iCalendar format, so that users can quickly view their calendar
from within an iCalendar-compatible application (e.g. Outlook,
iCal, Sunbird, etc) without having to log into Meety.

I aggree this comment and will take it into consideration next time i sit down and code.

I would like to output the calender in XHTML so that is can be viewable in most browsers.



2. As per above, consider an RSS feed too.

Already using RSS feeds to get information about the local area eg weather ......



3. Consider adding a web-based interface. Many universities will
have vast labs of non-Windows machines (certainly mine did),
rendering the Win32 fat client approach useless. .NET supposedly
makes providing a web-based interface for an already written
fat client easy. This will also help students to access the
system from Internet cafes and, if done carefully, mobile phones.

As im sure you already know Mono allows .Net to be run on most non Windows Machines the application its self was written in Ubuntu.
But yes the system does need a web output.


In summary, it's a data-drive app, so to make it more useful, you just
have to make the data available in more ways.

Aggreed thank you for your comments

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Regards JJ (UWA)

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