Download Team Log: Preserve, Share, and Develop Your Ideas

Team Log:
Preserve, Share, and Develop Your
Ideas
Robert Sanderson Pratt
Ting-You Wang
Jack Hebert
Overview
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Quick easy way to preserve ideas
Share ideas in a team environment
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Can also observe the evolution of a discussion
Provide quick way to search for the desired
information
UI that allows users to see the desired
information easily
Differentiators
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Unlike a Message Board
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Message boards have limited search capabilities
Message boards are flat and cumbersome to use
Unlike Newsgroups
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Messages in newsgroups are sometimes hard to
differentiate from another
Newsgroups are generally open to the public
System Implementation
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Plan to use Apache as web server
Plan to use Postgres or MySQL for database
storage
Use a middleware to communicate between
server and database
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Implemented possibly in PHP, Java, or C#
Viewers will view the program through a web
browser.
System Components
Presents UI on client
machine
Browser
Apache
Manages DB
connections,
etc.
Stores all content
and settings,
provides search
Serves page
Middleware
RDBMS
Example
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Mock-up Example for project communication
The quick note will send the data to the
private data area
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This section also threaded to allow users to
expand on ideas
Feasibility
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Many toolkits exists to create Rich Internet
Applications
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Google Web Toolkit
AJAX Toolkits
Other software to get a skeleton of the
application started
Help (and knowledge) for database design and
querying is readily available