Lecture on 27th of April

This weeks lecture is on Web architecture. Here are some good resources:

Short introductions:

Berners Lee, T., 1998, Principles of design, World Wide Web Consortium, Available online: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Principles.html [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Berners Lee, T., 2002, Web Architecture from 50,000 feet, World Wide Web Consortium, Available online: http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Architecture.html [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Roy T. Fielding and Richard N. Taylor. Principled design of a modern web architecture, In Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2000), Limerick, Ireland, June 2000, pp. 407-416. Available online: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/webarch_icse2000.pdf [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Further reading:

Jacobs, I., Walsh, N., 2004, Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume 1, World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation, Available online: http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Fielding, R. T., Taylor, R. N., 2002, Principled design of a modern web architecture, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2, 2, pp. 115-150, Available online: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~taylor/documents/2002-REST-TOIT.pdf [Accessed 24th April 2007]

Reading Review - revised spec

At last I've got round to correcting a few typos in the draft spec and expanding in the Assessment criteria.

Here is the final spec

Scrum video and more on Agile

Video of Ken Schwaber. The daddy of Scrum.

The Agile Manifesto.

Project Management references

Here are the references we will be using in class today. I'm bringing print outs of some, but others work better online because of their graphics and click through image maps. I suggest using a mixture of both.

The exercise for today will be to split up these materials and read through them. Then we will have a discussion on what the similarities and differences are in these approaches. I will be providing a handout which will help you focus on relevant questions.


PRINCE 2, what it is and its structure.
http://www.prince2.com/p2structure.html
http://www.prince2.com/whatisp2.html

Scrum introduction. Great diagrams.
http://scrumforteamsystem.com/ProcessGuidance/Scrum/Scrum.html

eXtreme Programming
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/index.html
Map or flow chart for XP
http://www.extremeprogramming.org/map/project.html

Lecture on J2EE Architecture

This week we will be looking at the J2EE architecture for web applications. See the Overview chapter in the Sun Tutorial @ http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc

Further reading - see
http://www.javapassion.com/j2ee/J2EEOverview_speakernoted.pdf

Also see video
http://www.theserverside.com/tt/talks/videos/RickSaletta/interview.tss?bandwidth=dsl

Lecture on Preparing questions for Development and Maintenence

Here is a PDF handout of the slides for the lecture today. They're on UWEonline so it might prompt you for a login. I hope that works. Let me know if it doesn't.

In the lecture we went through and discussed and created a set of questions that could be asked. Here is a selection of them. I provided some structure to begin with and then the guys took over and mostly did it on their own. We're using the Diffily book chapter headings as a framework to think about this and a reference for you to go back to.

Lecture on Development

You can download the PPT of the lecture from UWEonline. It might prompt you to login. I've tried it and it works. Let me know if it doesn't.

No show for anyone

No one turned up for the second maintenance lecture on Friday 9th. We'll see if we can fit some of that material into the coming lectures. It is important stuff and worth covering.

Lectures on Development

16 + 23 Feb

This week we're going to be moving on to the Development chapter in the Diffily book. Could you all make sure you read this.

Whilst reading could you think about how your type of website would be built. If you had to build a site in the category you originally researched how would you go about it? What would the risks and issues around this?

Coursework 2

We have had a bit of a rethink about coursework 2 and would like to propose the following task - to be formalised by next week.

Each student will choose one of a selection of web sites internal to UWE such as

• The CEMS external web - Alex
  
• The FBEWeb - no takers
  
• StudentsOnline - Malik
  
• Student Portal - Daniel
  
• Centre for Students Affairs - Denis
  
• Students Union - Dariuz
  

The task will be to investigate the way the site is maintained, constructed and governed in the light of the approach to web site management in Diffily and elsewhere , to carry out a SWOT analysis of the site and make a couple of recommendations for change.


Coursework specification HTML Word

Term 2 schedule

week no	Date	Topics	Lecturer
13	26th Jan	Student presentations of technical Challenges, Term term structure, the BOOK, Coursework2	CW
14	2 Feb	Diffily Chapter 2 - Maintenance - introduction	DD
15	9 Feb	Student-led discussion of Maintenance Activities	DD
16	16th Feb	Diffily Chapter 3 - Constuction	DD
17	23rd Feb	Diffily Chapter 3 - Constuction	DD
18	2 March	Architecture	MB
19	9 March	Diffily Chapter 4 -Governance + project management	DD
20	16 March	Slack	CW
21	23 March	Student presentations of Coursework 2	students
25	20 april	Slack	CW
26	27th April	Architecture	MB
27	4th May	Revision

New student wiki

We have had to move the wiki to an new location. I have transferred your pages from last term (with the exception of files - upload is missing just now - I will get it fixed.). This wiki can be used by any student - you use your existing CEMS username and password.

the wiki url is www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/studentwiki

I've set up a page for the next set of pages on challenges.