First Post: An Intro, Explanation of Purpose, Etc.
I've been working on my Masters degree one class at a time for the last 4 years (working full-time doesn't leave much time for either classes or homework). In May I finally finished up all of the required coursework, so now I just have my project left; that will be the (initial?) focus of this blog, as I created it solely because of the project. I hope that by documenting my process, design decisions, etc. here, it will serve as a head-start on the required paperwork and documentation for the finished project. The project is called, for now, the Project Management System, and is based off of a project I completed for Advanced Software Engineering in the spring of 2011. It's a web-app using HSQLDB as the database, Java for the data access layer, Java Servlets for the application layer, and JSP/CSS/JavaScript for the presentation layer (to the latter, I intend to add JQuery and JSTL in the near future). A presentation on my project as it stood at the end of the class is a...