| Log ID | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 29 February 2012 | Project were assigned |
| 2 | 2 March 2012 | First Meeting With ISSG, met Ms. Shyama Pagad, the manager for the Species Information Service |
| 3 | 9 March 2012 | Meeting with Ms. Shyama to go over the basic requirements of the project |
| 4 | 16 March 2012 | Meeting with Ms. Shyama and Mr.Chris Craig(the developer)to go over what has to be done for thr project project |
| 5 | 20 March 2012 | Started the shell/skeleton of the requirements report outlining the project scope |
| 6 | 21 March 2012 | An introductory meeting with my supervisor Ms.Angela Chang |
| 7 | 22 March 2012 | Continued with the requirements report and continued developing the weblog |
| 8 | 27 March 2012 | Preperation for introductory seminar |
| 9 | 28 March 2012 | Introductory seminar held at Tamaki Campus at 4:30 pm |
| 10 | 1 April 2012 | Started writing up the Project Scope document for he commencing weeks meeting |
| 11 | 2 April 2012 | Spent a few hours finnishing of the project scope document |
| 12 | 3 April 2012 | Meeting with Angela Chang, Chris Craig and Shyama Pagad to discuss the next step on preparing a functional requirements document before chosing the tools and technology that will be used for development |
| 13 | 10 April 2012 | Researched some configuration tools to use for development |
| 14 | 11 April 2012 | Started writing functional requirements and gathering information |
| 15 | 18 April 2012 | Worked on writing the functional requirements after receiving data from ISSG and will work on it for a few weeks and do some research before presenting report to Ms.Shyama and Mr. Chris |
| 16 | 18 April 2012 | Worked on writing the functional requirements after receiving data from ISSG |
| 17 | 7 May 2012 | Met with Acedemic supervisor Ms. Angela and discussed the posibilities of using MS SharePoint Server 2010 |
| 18 | 14 May 2012 | Met with Ms. Shyama and Mr. Chris and decided on using Sharepint server as our configuration tool |
| 19 | 18 May 2012 | Started researching and gathering resources that wil assist me in creating the bibliography database first |
| 20 | 24 May 2012 | Received email suggesting that Sharepoint server may not be used and spent time looking at Dupler as a potential tool |
| 21 | 25 May 2012 | Option of using ASP.Net and Umbraco presented by Chris |
| 22 | 26 May - 18th July 2012 | Researched Umbraco Created a wbsite with visual studio and connected to database Created simple search engine and a fill out form for skills register Had trouble with creating blog in visual studio so found a tool called BlogEngine.netthat could work |
| 23 | 19 July 2012 | Laptop Crashed, lost all my work. Email received from Chris that Umbraco will in fact be used |
| 24 | 20 July 2012 | Met with Ms. Angela and Ms. Shyama to discuss the next step and decided that i should begine with the blog in Umbraco |
| 25 | 23 July 2012 | I had an Umraco site read and a blog working but without comments working. Did not take long to do because Umbraco is a good tool. Presented to Ms. Shyama on this day and she gave more insight into what is required of the site |
| 26 | 24 July - 6th August 2012 | Umbraco site database not wworking, hard to connect to it, worked on a fill out form for skills register and a search engine for the experts Email was received that Acronym would host the site server space |
| 27 | 7th August 2012 | Meeting at Acronym with Chris and his development team, discussion on why the database is not working and what needs to be done further |
| 28 | 8th - 22nd August 2012 | Worked on a login page and managed to get it working so memebers can register and login |
| 29 | 23rd August 2012 | Meeting with Mr. Chris and Ms. Shyama at Tamaki to discuss Acronym hosting server space and setting the site up with a working SQL database and setting up a login for me |
| 30 | 23rd - 27th August 2012 | Last meeting learnt how to create user controls to add to Umbraco site and in this time created search and entry to bibliography database |
| 31 | 28th August 2012 | Meeting at Acronym office to talk through some problems, connecting to the Umbraco database rather than a database on my computer learnt of DAL- data access layer that allows the easy access of database now trying to creste search engine for experts using SQL, more difficult than bibliography since there is more then 1 table concerned |
| 32 | 2nd Seotember 2012 | Started creating user controls for "Edit Bibliography" and " Seach Bibliography" |
| 33 | 13th September 2012 | Meetig at Acronym with Mr. Mikhail, on progress with the user controls |
| 34 | 14th September 2012 | Started creating user controls for "Search Member" |
| 35 | 2nd October 2012 | Having trouble with the query for the "Search Member", asked Mr. Mikhail to guide me, with Mr. Mikhails help managed to get it working, it required several tables |
| 36 | 6th October 2012 | Started working on creating a profile found a good example online, Mr. Mikhail had found a similar one and we used it to create the profile |
| 37 | 9th October 2012 | having trouble implementing update function for the profile |
| 38 | 12th October 2012 | Profile completely finnished, managed to get it working |
| 39 | 15th October 2012 | Received information from Ms. Shyama that is needed to be added to the aite, she cancelled the weeks meeting |
| 40 | 16th October 2012 | Received email from Mr. Chris that he is trying to give Ms. Shyama external access to the site but images are not showing up, spent an hour fixing it, minor issue with the path of the images |
| 41 | 18th October 2012 | Final Seminar presentation |
| 42 | 23rd October 2012 | Handing in Final Year Report, will meet Ms. Shyama after exams and carry on working on the project if she like |