MovieXpress Developer's Blog

Team Four - Meeting Minutes

Business

• Phase III Development
• Team member update
  With phase II (data exploration and manipulation) of the Informatics project completed on Monday, phase III is the final piece of work to be submitted. Here is what each team member has been up to:
  
  
• Tristan
• Tristan has been working on various functions for recalling data from the CSV data source, which will be used for the recommendation engine. He has also been working on various tests for each function,
  
  
• Tabris
• Tabris has been researching different methods of input for HTML pages (particularly Javascript versions). The forms are to be used for a questionnaire, where the user determines what aspects of a movie are most important to them (such as actors, good reviews etc.)
  
  Tabris also said that AJAX and iFrames will be used to display content in phase III
  
  
• Sandru
• Sandru has been working on the administrative aspects of the project, including finding students to test phase III. He has also been working on the final presentation, which encapsulates the creation of a video and Powerpoint presentation.
  
  
• Approach
  As part of the project requirements, two approaches need to be compared for the final presentations. As stated in the project plan, the following two approaches will be used.
  
  
• Global variables
  In this case, preset variables will be used for determining the weight of each variable. The bulk of the weight would be centered on the metascore and the gross made.
  
  
• Questionnaire
  In this case, each user will be allowed to determine what they feel is most important about a movie. As stated earlier, the inspiration for such a quiz will be based on existing systems such as Netflix and Flixstr (on Facebook).
  
  Assuming that phase III is due on the 26^th of May, all coding is to be completed by the 24^th of May. This would allow one day for testing to take place, and for the final report to be compiled.
  
  ACTION- Questionnaire to be developed over the next two days and submitted to Sandru ASAP. Sandru will then pass the questionnaire on to the designated beta testers.

• Information Session
  Andrew and Steven will be providing lectures on phase III. Team members are to attend where possible.
  
  ACTION- Attend lectures
  
  
• Tasks for next week
  Sandru – Video, presentation, updates to blog, liaise with beta testers
  Tristan – Work on Python backend
  Tabris – Work on HTML/CSS/JS/AJAX front end
  
  
• Key dates
  Phase III presentation- 26th May 2008
  Phase III discussion –16^th May 2008
  Peer review submission – 9:00AM, 19^th May 2008
  

Next meeting- 22^nd May – 8:45AM at ICT Level 1

Here is the current HTML/CSS/AJAX interface for movieXpress. Full functionality will be enabled when phase III development has been completed.

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