Over the past two months I’ve been busy, packed, and loaded with academic stuffs. Two major projects of Web Service and Internet Industry Project (IIP) has drawn most of my time. The blogging activity should stop temporarily but now as I’m free, I’ll be writing and sharing more personal stories. I won’t be writing long in this entry coz apparently I lose my sense of writing so that I need to gather them back. As you read along this entry, you’ll find out roughly what has been happening to my personal life. So, let’s ride!

As I have mentioned earlier this semester I took Web Services and IIP; unexpectedly these two courses were giving me a lot of troubles and headaches.

The second assignment of Web Services is a group assignment. To complete this assignment I had decided to team up with Ryan and Glen. Honestly, at the very beginning it came accross my mind to finish this assignment by myself considering that it will be faster for me to work alone but then out of nowhere I finally dropped that silly idea when Ryan asked me to team up with him and I agreed to accept his offer. Glen however had asked me 1st to be one team with him, so it will be impossible to drop him and taking Ryan only instead. Luckily the maximum number of students allowed within one group is 3 and we all can fit in one team. The preliminary meeting was not producing a very good result since the requirement was very unclear however, we manage to start building the 1st project. The assignment itself was about building an architecture that requires the use of “Web Services” along the way to automate most of the business processes that happen in the given study case.

Anyway, I won’t go any further with technical details as probably you guys will get bored. There were couple of moments where I felt so dissapointed with the team; it’s not because they couldn’t finish the jobs but because they sometimes turned up late in the meeting. I know that they were feeling dissapointed to me as well because couple of things that I’ve done; despites of all the conflicts and internal feelings we managed to pull things together until the very end which was the demo. The demo was pretty screwed since we were facing couple of errors (over again!) but then we satistfy with the result because we win the prize of $AUD 600. This prize is awarded to the team who can present the best architecture design to the given study case. The decision to use JAVA and PHP was a correct decision in my opinion because it really shows the use of Web Services so that two different application written on top of two different programming languages can talk to each other. The prize money is a nice closing for this subject.

IIP is another different story; it is a project course in which you spend the whole semester doing a single project without having to bother with assignments and exam. This subject also will be used to complete my thesis for “Sarjana Komputer” (S.Kom). They story behind it on how BiNus University has decided to use IIP as our thesis is unknown and I have no attention at all to find out Anyway, the project  we took for this project is iPhone application development. The application is inteded for RMIT Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) student to manage their personal timetable within their iPhone. 30 June 2009, we were presenting this project to other people in the class and manage to pull good impression from some people. Although, there are still a lot of rooms for improvement but I believe what we have done for iPhone project development in RMIT is a breakthrough. In the next post, I’ll present you guys with the actual screenshot of our application since right now I am still selecting and compiling the images.

So, this is the end for this entry. I’ll be writing more soon since I also still in holiday period and I’ll share more stories with you guys and I really appreciate it if you guys put comments I also wanna thanks Ryan Seet and Glen Michael Kurniawan for a nice job that we have done for “Web Services”, we definitely rocked. Dennis Andika Suryawijaya and Glen Michael Kurniawan (again!) for the very nice job we produce in IIP creating those application. So, heaps of thank to my teams and sorry for the mistakes I’ve done

the story will continue, stay tuned!

Cheerz,

Peter Foeng

Originally posted 2009-06-30 22:20:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter