My dissertation is complete. This post explores what was achieved and links to the 20,000 word accompanying report.

The core Online Dispute Resolution platform is finally complete. I now outline my plans for the last four weeks of development.

I had my mid-project demo on Tuesday. Those following my blog will know that this has been at the forefront of my mind in recent weeks, and my aim was to have the core ODR platform finished in time for the demonstration. This was somewhat ambitious, and other commitments (work, company administration, friends and family)… [Read More]

Can my project learn lessons from other open-source projects and become profitable?

Last semester we learned a lot about agile practices. It stressed the importance of being able to embrace change, deferring the design decisions until the last possible moment so that they can be made in light of the experience gained through spike work, talking to the on-site customer, and so on. The idea of agile is… [Read More]

Since yesterday morning I’ve been feverishly bashing the poor keys on my Macbook Pro and adding new features. This might partly be down to me panicking at the thought of having to show my project in a mid-project demonstration in two weeks time, but I like to think it’s because I’ve been thinking long and hard about my database structure… [Read More]

My plan was always to use behaviour-driven development in my project. In an earlier blog post I talked about how I’ve used my supervisor meetings to clarify requirements and translate these into features. At this stage in the project I now have a bunch of signed-off features, all of which can have an automated test… [Read More]

Today I’ve done a lot of reading, using Mendeley for the bibliography management. Find out why.

A recent blog post had me trying to find a good base structure for my Online Dispute Resolution platform. I looked at a few possibilities, none of which were really appropriate. I decided to try taking a more modular approach, using libraries to handle things such as authentication but building my system in an abstract way to enable… [Read More]