Welcome to the Diatrack Project Journal

Olga, Dr. Paul, and I have been awarded a grant under the CREU Program for our project, which we call Diatrack.  (It has a longer name too.)  One requirement of our grant is that we each keep a weekly journal, and we’ve decided to do this in the form of a blog, which will also let us share ideas and communicate with each other more efficiently than by email alone.

So far, we have (of course) the project proposal that we submitted for the grant, and a draft Statement of Work.  I at least am eager to get into actually working on making some type of a working web application (a prototype at least) rather than spending too long doing a ton of planning.  A school year is really a very short time when you’re trying to accomplish something.

I’ve mostly done Java programming in school, with small dabbles into C++.  Olga and I would like to experiment with trying to do this project using MS Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET.  I have this software on my computer but have not actually opened it yet.  I hope to put in some hours this weekend learning what my options are for working with it and how it might facilitate the coding part of the project. 

If you’d like to see our Statement of work, here it is: Statement of Work (PDF)

Tam

[NB: I can’t seem to get the blog to display the author’s names on the posts, which would be very helpful.]

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