Review of Team Meeting 16/11/2011

In today's team meeting we achieved:

• a prototype script for inserting data to the mySQL database
• 2 prototypes for uploading pictures, which provide the following functionalities:
• uploading the pictures directly to the database
• uploading the pictures to the server's file system
• an algorithm for rating and displaying the most worth discounts in the system
• basic layout implementations for both website and Android app

Review of Supervisor Meeting 14/11/2011

In today's supervisor meeting we

• presented the upload functionality of pictures to our mySQL-database
• presented the results of the brainstorming about the needed categories for our offers
• we keep the focus on supermarket products and leave out electronics, which could be a follow up or extension after finishing CheApp for supermarkets
• presented a prototype of the sqlite-DB for the Android App
• decided to use a PHP-script on the server to send only the needed amount of data to the Android app when syncing
• decided to offer searching for discounts either by the GPS location or a freely chosen location
• agreed on the final exam date for the project as of the 19th of January 2012.

Review of Teem Meeting 2/11/2011

Todays team meeting was mostly working. we focused on working on different individual tasks like:

• solving hosting problems with foreign keys of our database 
• working on website design
• extending functionality of "get your gps location" feature of the phone application
• improving project foundation 
• we talked about adding possibility to include a picture in the discounts

Review of Teem Meeting 31/10/2011

Since Morten was away this Monday we decided to make a team meeting to :

• discuss and improve our presentation for PRW course 
• discussed final version of our time schedule 

• we also made a fancy picture of basic structure and technologies of our system

• we also moved our database and web server to a public hosting server, you can check out our first website prototypes here (http://cheapp.cwsurf.de/)

Project Presentation

Tuesday, November 1st we will be presenting our project during PRW course.

Come check us out between 8.15 - 11.45 in room  D1 at Faculty of Engineering

Review of Teem Meeting 26/10/2011

during the meeting we:

• we made first draft of our presentation for PRW course
• worked on our time schedule
• talked about communication between web server and android application and also about database synchronization between main and phone database
• we decided to move our web server and database on a public hosting server

Review of Supervisor Meeting 24/10/2011

To be updated ...

Review of Supervisor Meeting 12/10/2011

• we presented our draft of project description and personal contracts
• after feedback from Morten we decided to make few improvements and make a final version during holiday, for example : include list of our goals in project description, change our personal goals more into "what are we going to gain in this project?"
• Morten also suggested few additional goals we could implement in our system:
• marking favorite items 
• possibility for shop owners to register their shops and insert some discounts in mass way like using CSV or XML files  
• we also presented our website design sketches and our final version of ER diagram of our database, which we decided to keep secret from public because of security reasons

Review of Supervisor Meeting 10/10/2011

On our next supervisor meeting we

• talked more about our idea of CheApp system
• discussed technologies we are going to use and talked about possible problems and advantages or disadvantages of using them 
• Morten asked us to make: 
• project description where we should present our project, talk more about the subject and also include a list of goals we would like to implement 
• write our personal learning contracts
• We also agreed on next meeting which should take place on Wednesday in the same week because of the upcoming holidays 

Review of Teem Meeting 5/10/2011

• at the beginning of the meeting we talked about ideas presented by our supervisor Morten during our last supervisor meeting
• after long discussion we decided to go for the Discount App idea
• we discussed first draft of ER diagram of our database 

  

 

• we agreed on several changes to idea, basically about ways of storing amount and type of items 
• we also talked about basic design of the website, our team members made few sketches