Some helpful links when putting video and audio on web pages.

http://realdev1.realise.com/rossa/rendertest/quicktime.html 

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=jw_mp3_player 

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=JW_FLV_Player 

Jess and I were talking on the train the other day about textured background images. It seems all the “cool” web 2.0 sites are using these textured background images to give the site a little bit more of an edge.

So what does Jess go and do? He goes and finds a site where you can make your own textured background. I have been having fun with it this morning making a background with my name all over it!! hahaha

Anyway seems really good and an excellent resource to have for the future.
http://bgmaker.ventdaval.com

Go to the gallery, and you can download the already made images or edit your own.

Enjoy, thanks to excentricjester yet again!!

Michael (my tafe teacher….) left Jess and I to watch a video today (Thursday) about creating login functionality with php.

I found the video quite funny and could imagine quite vividly the guy sitting at his computer making it. Throughout you can here his instant messenger going off, made me laugh.

Anyway, about the actual task. When I first watched the video I understood maybe 4 or 5 things he was doing but apart from that I was lost. However after watching it a second time, then having a go and creating what he was doing myself, it was quite good and I feel as though I have some grasp of what it was all one about.

Working prototype can be found here on Jen’s Site

Waterfall Methodology

The waterfall methodology[1] is one of the most well known and understood of development methodologies. It is the process of breaking up a project into tasks, and working on these in a logical sequential order. Its process is much like a waterfall, once a step has been completed the project then moves onto the next phase, there is no overlap and each stage has clear guidelines and goals.

It most cases the processes involved in the waterfall methodology are as follows;

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Some main characteristics of the Waterfall Methodology

• The scope must be defined before the project can begin
• The project is segmented into a hierarchy of tasks.
• Each task can only be commenced when the previous has been completed.
• The waterfall method is a sequential and orderly way of working through a project.
• Reviews of tasks are conducted between each step confirming that the next stage in the process can be conducted.
• Once the water of a waterfall has flowed of the edge of the cliff it cannot go back up, it’s the same principle of the waterfall methodology, once a stage has been completed the follows moves down to the next stage and cannot turn back.

Appeal

An example of the appeal the Waterfall methodology has is to Project managers. Project managers are there to administer and maintain the development process of a project. The distinct advantage of using the waterfall method is it allows for the project to be mapped out, and the progression to be easy tracked and viewed. This can occur because no others stage can be running at the same time, stages have to be completed before the project can continue to move along the development line.. Each stage has clear goals and scope, set out in the initial planning of the project.

Advantages and Disadvantages

A large project has to be planned and thoroughly managed, because such a large number of people, and in most cases a large amount of money will be involved. The advantage of the waterfall method of project management is it allows for stages of a project to be clearly outlined, deadlines to be assigned and managerial control. It allows for a strict process to be implemented giving the stages clear goals to be followed, without any overlap of stages.

However the disadvantage of the waterfall method is that is does not allow for much testing or revision of work completed. Once a project is in the testing stage because of the way the method is structured it is virtually impossible to back track to previous stages to make necessary changes to a problem, that could have easily been over looked in the concept stage of the project development.

http://www.digital-web.com/articles/contract_killers/ 

Excellent article

[1] a set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/methodology