Almost there

Phew! It's deadline time, unfortunately not just for our little Music Cloud, but also for schoolwork. Currently, I'm taking a break from writing THE FINAL REPORT, which is due today. The past few weeks have been busy. We've been designing and documenting and implementing, and iterating. On top of that, I've been studying for exams and trying to finish up other school projects. Next week is the Demola Graduation and the Final pitching event, which will also be the premiere of our demo. Hopefully, it will be a spectacle to remember.

We're having another meeting with Tapio tomorrow showcasing the player and band pages. Fingers crossed he'll be pleased with our progress.

Niina's hours

Week 13

• Learning HTML and CSS 5 hours
• Design and other meetings 6 hours

Total 11 hours

Week 14

• Learning HTML and CSS 6,5 hours
• Design and other meetings 5 hours

Total 11,5 hours

Week 15

• Learning DIEM 5 hours
• Client meeting 1 hour
• Design and other meetings 5 hours

Total 11 hours

Week 16

• Client Meeting and other meetings 5 hours
• Documentation (Project plan update) 5 hours

Total 10 hours

Week 17

• Blogging 2 hours (yes, I had problems with the new layout
• Documenting
• Project Review Meeting 1,5 hours

Total 8,5 hours

Week 18

• Client Meeting and other meetings 5 hours
• Documenting 2 hours
• Heuristics evaluation 3 hours

Total 10 hours

Week 19

• Documenting and editing 5 hours
• Client meeting and other meetings 5 hours

Total 10 hours

Project Overall Total : 63,5 + 72 =135,5 hours

Image from here: http://http://www.keychangesmusictherapy.com/2011/05/progress-and-documentation/businessman-overwhelmed-with-paperwork

Mikko´s week 19

Week 19,

Designing graphical content: 10h
Pitch planning: 2h
Meeting with the project partner: 1h
Designing layout to player: 2h
Creating the gallery: 4h
writing blog: 1h
Planning of other features: 8h

Week total: 28h
Project Overall Total : 200h

On this week we were working quite a lot again and had a meeting with Tapio, to realize to consern on the player and store functionality. I presented the first version of the working player to Tapio and also a gallery I created it thought it could be implemented somewhere in the future. Also we disucussed the checout-service ( http://checkout.fi/) with Tapio for the payment methods. I also redesigned the buttons in the mainpage and designed a new better looking banner, and also an artistic group picture that can be used as a basis for the pitching layout. Reza has been working alot with the bandpage creating side and the registered user options. This side of the application is not Diem based and we have discussed that we might create a new base for the main page also out of Diem in the future.

 

The new banner.

         The artistic illustration of the team, combining members pictures and concept art.

  

New mockup combining player and the gallery.

New "register" -button.

New "log In" -button

The first player and current progress

Week 18 Hours, Mikko

Meeting with the project partner : 1h 
Planning: 3h
Design: 2h
learning: 1h (looking for Disqus javascript application, http://disqus.com/)

Week total : 7h
Project Overall Total : 172h

Hello,

Vappu is celebrated now and we are all still alive! Quite basic stuff actually and eventually unfortunately no special pictures to present. Maybe it was the effect of Vappu or something else, but the week 18 wasn´t the most productive one for me either, but this week trying to boost my working efficiency again!

We had a meeting with our project partner Tapio on Thursday (2.5) and still discussed that the player is the main focus at the moment with the store option. As unfortunately Reza and Vanuhi we´re not present on this meeting we didn´t have a clear picture of the current phase of our back end progress, but I am now aiming to keep myself more up to date on everybody´s work that atleast this kind of risks could be avoided in the future.

Today (7.5.) we got the first implementation of the player working as Vanuhi had got it finished and shared it with the rest of us. At the moment it only plays local files, but we are currently working on that.

My current personal sprint at the moment is to develop different layouts for the player, skins and css. And also continue making the webpage to have more content. Also I am to look for a design solution how to implement the store effectively on the player.

Also we have discussed about the possible payment-feature implementations. We have talked about pay-pal implementation and Osuuspankki. Maybe for Osuuspankki features it would be easiest for someone to call to the bank and find out the correct solution for us. This might be Sameli´s field of expertise.

On this week´s Wednesday (9.5) we will have another meeting with Tapio again.

Currently the player looks like this:
(this is now the first version on which we will now start working on to make it perfect!)