http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog Development of a feedreader Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:25:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Everyone else seems to be blogging about their project presentations, so I shall leap onto the bandwagon and also use this as an opportunity to pretend that this counts as a proper progress update. I've uploaded my PDF slides which are rather brief, but give the general gist of the main ... http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2007/03/presentation/ I've made a fair bit of progress since the last update (as I should, since that was 6 weeks ago). The first milestone after having a basically functional application was that of having a usable (and functional) application, and since then I've been adding features and tweaking code to broaden ... http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2007/01/dont-tell-me-twice/ Happy to say, I not only finished my progress report on Thursday night (a full 3.5 days before it was due), I handed it in yesterday morning and everything. I'm still in a state of shock, given that this is the earliest I've finished an assignment while at university, if ... http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2006/12/progress/ I started doing actual coding on Monday, save for a brief initial spurt last Friday afternoon, and by last night I had a basic application up, running and working. It's very rough around the edges, has some hard-coded values that need replacing with actual lookups, needs much code tidying, but ... http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2006/11/pause/ This is the formal specification that I submitted for my project, Ephemera. http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2006/11/specification/ I spent altogether too much time this weekend picking a theme for this blog. I have quite a lot of them installed at the moment, and because of the nice dynamic nature of Wordpress (which beats rebuilding your entire statically-paged-Movable-Type weblog) I've been changing the theme every few hours. Don't ... http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2006/11/getting-started/ Well, as it says on my About page: I am Cathy Young, a 3rd year Computer Science student at Warwick University in the UK. This blog chronicles the development of my third-year project, a web-based RSS/Atom reader called Ephemera. My other blog is bent back tulips. Of course, in my mind Ephemera ... http://www.ephemeraproject.org/blog/2006/11/introduction/