I also had a meeting at my desk with Bill Lee, he has explained to me how to use the Asta time recording application to manage and track my time. Time recording is a important part of the operations here due to it being instrumental in billing clients and providing data for the universities reporting information.
Friday, day two and far calmer from the offset, with my intitial setup out of the way and much of the surrounding administration completed I was given the Oracle training disks, 6 disks of SQL heaven, also an important part of my development in the sense of re familiarising and extending my knowledge of database procedures, also it will keep me busy during my early days.
Today was also the date of my first meeting, a project being developed by applications division for the Edinburgh college of Art is nearing its final stages of development and I was lucky enough to be given the job of testing the the application, an iphone based app which can show the different historic incarnations of Edinburgh dating back to the 1700's, my job was to venture out into the sunshine and see that the application was able to track and follow my movements around town and use the application to test for faults and bugs.
The meeting itself was a good experience, the atmosphere was informal and relaxed however I found it most interesting to see the steps of development in practice and I was able to gain a sense of the kind of work put into the project and the stages still to come. It is fair to say I was delighted to be asked to be a part of the project and despite my extensive experience in the field of software development tasks were still found where I could be included in the development process.
Monday 5th July, it is currently 3.15pm.
Today has been the start of my bit part in the Walking Through Time project, my task consisted of importing photographs of Edinburgh landmarks which support the Walks function of the WTT application, the photos are transfered into the images folder of the application and associated with the locations marked by creating pathnames via the Routes.plist file located within the application directories. The task was repeated for two sets of walks, using different images taken specifically for the project
Something else new for today is that I have been using a Mac for the first time, screenprints have been taken for the evidence folder to back up todays work and they also show the Mac platform being used.
Friday, day two and far calmer from the offset, with my intitial setup out of the way and much of the surrounding administration completed I was given the Oracle training disks, 6 disks of SQL heaven, also an important part of my development in the sense of re familiarising and extending my knowledge of database procedures, also it will keep me busy during my early days.
Today was also the date of my first meeting, a project being developed by applications division for the Edinburgh college of Art is nearing its final stages of development and I was lucky enough to be given the job of testing the the application, an iphone based app which can show the different historic incarnations of Edinburgh dating back to the 1700's, my job was to venture out into the sunshine and see that the application was able to track and follow my movements around town and use the application to test for faults and bugs.
The meeting itself was a good experience, the atmosphere was informal and relaxed however I found it most interesting to see the steps of development in practice and I was able to gain a sense of the kind of work put into the project and the stages still to come. It is fair to say I was delighted to be asked to be a part of the project and despite my extensive experience in the field of software development tasks were still found where I could be included in the development process.
Monday 5th July, it is currently 3.15pm.
Today has been the start of my bit part in the Walking Through Time project, my task consisted of importing photographs of Edinburgh landmarks which support the Walks function of the WTT application, the photos are transfered into the images folder of the application and associated with the locations marked by creating pathnames via the Routes.plist file located within the application directories. The task was repeated for two sets of walks, using different images taken specifically for the project
Something else new for today is that I have been using a Mac for the first time, screenprints have been taken for the evidence folder to back up todays work and they also show the Mac platform being used.
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