Blog Votes and Statistics

Blogger of the Class: Michael Morgan
Runner-up: Ashar Attaluri
Honorable mention: David Bowles, Tarun Dhawan

Best blog site: http://mavericks8020.blogspot.com/
Runner-up: http://nucleus-inc.blogspot.com/

Some statistics will be updated later.

Please export your blogs and submit

This is the last action item for your blog project. Please go to your blog "Settings" --> "Basic" --> "Blog Tools" and export your blog as an XML file. Please email me a copy of your XML file. I need to have a record of it. Plus, it will be easier for me to integrate all your blogs and comments to do some statistics.

Assignment 3: Survey on the blog project

This survey about the blog project is your 3rd assignment. Please download the survey and a consent form, fill them out at your own time (the URLs are provided below), and print them. The survey is anonymous so please take it easy. I will collect the survey and consent form in class on December 1st. Please spend some quality time on responding to the survey, as your input is invaluable to the design of this project for future classes.

1. Consent form:
http://gzheng.cis.gsu.edu/teaching/cis8020/files/consent.doc
2. Survey:
http://gzheng.cis.gsu.edu/teaching/cis8020/files/blog-survey.doc

Blog Voting for Bonus

Please have a look at the voting form for blogs.
http://gzheng.cis.gsu.edu/teaching/cis8020/files/blogvote.pdf

I am going to collect the votes in class on December 1st. You have two weeks to review all of our blogs and sites, and determine your nominations. You may bring a printed and filled form to class; I will also distribute the form in class. Results will be announced in class and on this blog site.

Please view the voting results as more of spiritual encouragement, and peer recognition, than just a few bonus points.

Hardware Integration Analogy

Here are some examples of hardware integration styles. Can you find the similar styles in "system integration"?
1. Swiss army knife, leatherman (thanks to Steve), and other N-in-1 tools
2. Universal remote
3. Constructicons/Devastator
4. Lego
5. Converter/adaptor, for power plugs, A/V cables, etc.
6. Screwdriver with replacable heads
7. USB
8. iPhone

Do you have other good hardware integration examples?

Design Project Instruction is posted!

Please see the "Course Resource" section on the sidebar, or the "Course Work" section in the online schedule webpage (you can also download some example papers that show how to describe a solution).

Assignment 2 Blog Example

[Title: CIS 8020 Assignment 2 JZ Google Pie Chart]

A small stock tracking website collects stock buy and sell information from many mutual funds. It produces percentages of buy/sell of any stock by all mutual funds within a certain period of time. Besides just presenting these numbers as pure text, the web site wants to put them in charts for better appearance.

Google Chart API is a good candidate solution for this problem. It generates static chart images which can be easily integrated to any webpage. The website just needs to prepare the input data (the percentages of buy and sell) and configure a few setting on its style. A chart is prototyped as following:

http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=p3&chd=t:70,30&chtt=Intel(INTC)&chs=400x200&chco=00FF00,FF0000&chl=Buy|Sell

Built upon this, the website also provides a dashboard-like page for all Dow 30 stocks.

Compare to other solutions, this is easy to use and implement. Such an API saves the development and maintenance effort. It also saves computing power and bandwidth. The application can be nicely integrated to the website. Service speed is also satisfying.