Weeks 9, 10, and 11

Not much to add for these weeks.
Those who could afford the time and expense of traveling to Africa went. They had a fun time. Those of us who either couldn't afford it, or (I suppose) didn't want to go stayed home.

I sort of had some expectation that we the left-behind would be used a resource, and would be doing bug fixing or similar activities in response to emails or other communications from the team members in Africa... this did not turn out to be the case.
We had a call with Professor Fry, who relayed how the experiece was going. None of the student doing the work was on the call, so they couldn't have asked for help even if they needed it.
I was kind of looking forward to providing support to a working installation from across the world. But I guess I should take it as a good thing that the on site student were able to work through all the major issues they ran into.

Since their return is somewhat anticlimactic, fixing the issues that they did bring back has been kind of a slog. Not that anything we have to do is hard, but motivation after delivery of the product is harder to gin up :)

Week	Team Meetings	Project Work	Journal Writing	CBL Hours with Client	Other *
One	2	5	0.5	0	4
Two	1.5	9	0.5	0	0
Three	2	4	0.5	0.5	0
Four	2	6	0.5	0	0
Five	2.5	5	0.5	0	0
Six	2	4	0.5	0	0
Seven	2	3	0.5	0	0
Eight	2	14	0.5	0	0
Nine	1	0	0	0	0
Ten	0	0	0	0	0
Eleven	2	2	0	0	0
Totals	19	52	4	0.5	4

Week 7 and 8

For some reason I have a hard time remembering these journal entries. Maybe because I'm busy, Maybe because (like most of the class) I feel they are a waste of everyones time.

I was really struggling with concentration for weeks 6 and 7. I was working on a difficult issue at work most of both weeks which I could not resolve (it turned out to be a dll that was improperly installed on 9 of 27 machines that pool their work, rather than a code bug), and which the business side of my company was hounding me about almost hourly.

This week I really kicked in the overdrive to be done with my piece in time, which has left me feeling stressed and exhausted.
Maybe a little depressed. I would have liked to go with the group to Africa.
Maybe a little relieved. I have neither the time nor the money to spend two weeks away from work and school right now.

I am concerned about the "plan" to run our system on iis on the same system as the Hospital software. It has NEVER been tested on windows, much less iis with a php plugin. Going forward assuming it will just work is in my view really stupid. I hope it works anyway.

...and once again it is time to reflect on the service aspect of the class... I wonder whether the system will really be usable. UI design (ergonomics) was not a big part of what anybody was thinking abaout as they coded parts of it.
I hope it is usable enough for future students to build on.

Week	Team Meetings	Project Work	Journal Writing	CBL Hours with Client	Other *
One	2	5	0.5	0	4
Two	1.5	9	0.5	0	0
Three	2	4	0.5	0.5	0
Four	2	6	0.5	0	0
Five	2.5	5	0.5	0	0
Six	2	4	0.5	0	0
Seven	2	3	0.5	0	0
Eight	2	14	0.5	0	0
Totals	16	50	4	0.5	4