And here we go... again!

5 am! Best hour for our intellect to come by and say "Hey"

This might be one of the busiest weeks ever for us, we have been working very hard on the project. We've been working literally around the clock to be able to present our project today, we are actually very excited about this even tho its going to be though.

Now its only matter of time for us to finish we are doing the very last details of it, hopefully every one enjoys it!

Cheers
-Deco

And here we go.

We are a few hours of submitting the project to the jury. Still not completely ready to be evaluated but we are working on the mistakes of last time, always come when you least need them.

On the other hand you are ready our video. I never thought to edit videos so late but here it is. I leave the league so they can see directly into YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsfR6WWAN-c

Greetings

Belissa

And we continue.

Now we're a bit on the design and view our site. To do this I have helped in a very good tutorial I found online of how we do with CSS. " I leave the league for that visit:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
It's hard to tell if it looks good to you and every day I make changes according loq ue me tell people they are shown the site, this in order to have a friendly user interaction.
As for the googlecode I had problems and I can not do updates and commits or not it is due. I tested on Linux and Windows, command line and an Eclipse plugin. If one more try I can not go I'll have to ask for help from my computer to be registered on the website of SeconStrike.
I think this is all for now.
Greetings.

Belissa

Back-on-track

Ok

So after we did all that stuff about the users, we got to a new dilemma (thank you django!).

How are we going to store the stands in our database?

Our first choice was to create tables "on the fly" which we were going to use as matrix, so every position in our table would be a stand. Yes, that didn't work. So after more than a week investigating how to make that happen, we actually decided not to, its too difficult to implement it that way.

Current solution:

Now we are going to store all the stands in one table (yes, at large scale its going to be huge but we couldn't figure out any better way to do it).

Instead of giving you a big messy explanation I'm just going to paste what would be our design for the expo and the stand models:

=Exposiciones=

nombre -> String
creador -> Usuario
entrada -> norte, sur, este, oeste -> 0,1,2,3
salida -> norte, sur, este, oeste -> 0,1,2,3
columnas -> #
filas -> #
pasillos -> horizontal, vertical -> 0,1

=Stands=

exposicion -> Exposiciones
x -> columnas -> #
y -> filas -> #
usuario -> Usuario

Cheers

-Deco

Second iteration

Ok and here we're finishing the progress for the second iteration and we had several problems.
For my part I try to implement Subversion with Eclipse and as seen in Googlecode I could not even organize it, this little problem delayed us a bit more.

As for the code we are checking how to make a query, the database classes can help a lot but not find a way to give us a single fact in Django.

As mentioned there were several changes to the project and this occasion our unit tests would not go in this iteration.

We hope soon to give more as we progress with the project.

Belissa

Here... once again

Hello,

I've been wanting to post, but i've been really busy...

First of all, i want to tell you, that we've made some changes... what do i mean with changes? I mean... BIG CHANGES. Not in functionality but in the architecture... Ty client!!

So first of all... the biggest change: We wont have 2 types of users, since the client realized that expositors and organizers should be the same... both should be able to do both things...

This helped... a bit... even though we can't figure out if its a 0 bit or a 1 bit... here, let me explain... Before we had 2 types of users, so we had to model each user, model their permisions and stuff... now... since we only have one user, we can/are use/using python.contrig.auth.user, so its going to be easier to handle users, but we had to change basicly everything.

The other change, is since we deleted those 2 kinds of users, we had to make different applications, the apps schema changed, now we have only 3 types of apps:

-Index.- which will handle login, expo searches, and users profile (this user profile is public)
-Users.- This will handle the registration of the users, non-public profile page, change personal data and user-confirmation emails.
-Expos.- Which will handle everything bout making expos and registering to them. (EVERYTHING ABOUT EXPOS =P)

Oh by the way, Belissa told me to tell you that she's been working in the projects style and well helping me out as well (since she hasn't posted =P )

Ok, so there it is... my weekly-not-so-weekly post

Cheers.
Deco.

1rst Iteration

So here we are, today we've got the first check iteration of the project.

I personally don't think we've come far right now, but we are now finishing up the basics with django. We've been struggling with POST requests and even more while trying to send emails, it's actually getting rough.

Dunno what else to say, because actually the hardest part is yet to come.

Cheers.

Deco.

Biografía del cliente

El cliente soy yo, Diego García.

Nací en la ciudad de México el 10 de octubre de 1988. A los nueve meses me mudé a la ciudad de Torreón, Coahuila, junto con toda mi familia por motivos de negocios. Hice mi kinder y mi primaria en una escuela bilingüe. Uno de mis hermanos ya estaba estudiando su licenciatura, estudiaba ingeniería en sistemas computacionales, por lo que por él tuve mis primeros cruces con las computadoras.

A la edad de 11 años, emigré a la ciudad de Cancún, Quintana Roo, en dónde hice mis estudios de secundaria y le agarré más cariño a la computación. Teniendo mis inicios en programación.

En el 2003 la familia volvió a mudarse, ésta vez a la ciudad de México puesto un hermano ya iba a entrar a la universidad y mis padres no quisieron que él la cursara en Cancún.

Posteriormente yo terminé mi prepa y entre a estudiar Ingeniería en Sistemas Computaciones como lo hicieron mis dos hermanos mayores. Actualmente sigo cursando ésta carrera.

Project

Hello World!

We've now defined what our project will be. It's going to be a stand manager for expositions. The first version is going to be designed only for square rooms.

The main functionalities of our project mainly divide in two, the exposition's organizer and the expositors which will pay for stands.

The organizers will be able to choose the size of the exposition center and determine how the area is going to divide in different stands, mark the WCs and doors of the room and of course determine charging rules for stands.

With this input, the software will be able to generate the expo's layout, save it into a database and provide a special link for the organizer for this event.

The expositors will be required to book their stands by visiting the unique link the organizer will give them. They're going to be able to see which spaces are available, book them, read about payment and discount rates information and so on.
This is the main idea of our project. We'll be giving out more details on later posts. For now, this is it.

Cheers
-Deco

License!

Hi!

Now we have to see what license we choose to enable it carry out our open source project.

We select the license of "GNU General Public License v3," because this gives us the opportunity for people outside the original team can contribute and that this license gives them the freedom to make changes to the original work.

In addition to one of the secondary objectives of this project and to make known its evolution through the blog is to make sure that you can have more quality options regarding this type of project, and assure that you will have permission legal to copy and distribute this version of the project.

We know that many people questioned why we use this license because we are giving permission to use our work and perhaps people maliciously say it is their job. Well the truth is that we are confident that it will make good use of our work, and that will give us credit if you use our code to generate a new application.

To learn more about the license, here is the ofiacial page:

http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html

We've registered our project in google code, the link is the following:

http://code.google.com/p/secondstrike2010/

Welcome

Hello, im Diego García.

I'm studying a major in computer technologies. I've been developing web systems professionally for more than one ear; mainly using technologies such as php, Javascript, Ajax, CSS and some Flex.

I must admit I am excited about this project not only because it actually sounds fun but also because I will learn about a new technology, Python¹. This will support my career as a web developer and will increase my portfolio and knowledge in general.

Currently we are still in the creative stage of the project and we are still figuring out which problematic will our project solve.

Cheers.

-Deco

¹ "An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, extensible programming language. It provides an extraordinary combination of clarity and versatility, and is free and comprehensively ported." - python.org

Welcome!

Hola, soy Belén Fernández!

Actualmente me encuentro estudiando la ingeniería en sistemas computacionales. He tenido varios encuentros con proyectos de desarroyo de software durante mi carrera pero creo que este al ser tema libre es un poco más interesante.

Aqui pondremos nuestros avances y tropezones durante el tiempo que estemos trabajando en este proyecto. Cada vez que tengamos una actualización trataremos de ponernos al corriente escribiendo que es lo que llevamos hecho.

Nosotros somos:

Belissa (Belen Fernandez)
Deco (Diego Garcia)