Saturday, March 31, 2012

Version 1.2 - Bootes (bo-OH-teez)

We haven't really made a blog post in some time now, but that doesn't mean we haven't been working! There was an updated version 1.11 fixed some bugs in 1.1 and added a little more functionality to the website. Now we have our eyes set on release another version of the website.

Version 1.2 - Bootes is going to add events to our website. A user will be able to make an event by supplying information such as: title, date, time, location, and description. This event will be stored on the database, and a page will be created, allowing users to see the event information.

Aaron and I spent sometime working with QR codes for our internet programming course and found an interesting way to apply this to our senior project. As well as creating an event, the user will also be able to download a QR code that corresponds with that event. The user will be able to print off the QR code and advertise the event that he/she made, and when someone else scans the event, it will add it the event to his/her google calendar!

Adding events to our website has given us many ideas of what to do with them. We really want our website to be a "one-stop-shop" when it comes to the going ons at Luther, and so it would be neat to combine the event calendar, that Luther manages, with events that are generated by users on our website.

Implementations for Version 1.2
  • Events on database
  • Event Form to create events
  • Event Page to display events
  • Page to handle QR scans