Definition of the Class 12 Project

"The Waldorf curriculum also places emphasis on sending its graduating Class 12 students
off with a sense of self-worth and skills in self-directed learning. To this end, each Class
12 student undertakes a year-long self-chosen project, which requires a minimum 3000-
word published thesis, a practical component, and a twenty-minute public presentation to
the community. A separate handbook describes the Class 12 Project more fully."

Source: Taikura Rudolf Steiner School Hastings - High School Teaching Programme 2007

Progress update (finally)

So I have delivered my "progress update" speech. In terms of the practical I have completed all the contact managment and authenication stuff, and are looking at the actual booking side of things right now.

Software as a Service Essay

Here is a link to my Software as a Service essay.

Work Experience Week

This week I have been undertaking work experience at Gen-i Napier. Here is a bried outline of what I got up to:

• Monday: At a client site observing tech support in full swing - answering e-mails and phone calls and working with an online support request tracking system. I also checked out some old hardware to see if it was working or not
• Tuesday: Helped build a new desktop PC for a client - setting up XP and migrating user data and settings across
• Wednesday: Had a play with SharePoint and watched a Citrix install - had a discussion and got a feel for what Citrix can do and is used for
• Thursday: In the sales department. Sold a laptop and got up to speed with the product database and quoting system
• Friday: Again in sales, did some more quotes, today for a terminal server. Also checked out the CBT Nuggets video series for window Vista

Thanks to all the staff who accomodate me over the week. I had a great time.

April Progress update

So far I have been working on my software developement cycle - then plan for the process I will use for my developement. I have also create a form that users are filling in their information so I will have a database table of information at hand when I roll out my application - usernames and passwords and all the contact details etc.

An Update (at last)

So I have asked Daniel to be my official mentor and he has accepted. He gave me some pointers in the software developement lifecycle and I will most likely be using the waterfall method, which has steps in the project where the output from each step becomes the input of the next step, much like a waterfall.

I have a the progress report due in Friday, and I need to get going making a plan for my developement lifecycle so I can finally start work. Daniel has offered me the use of an initial framework for database apps, with things like object-orientated database abstraction layers and user authentication and other useful things which will be a great starting point.

Thats all for now.