Last month we got selected… oh! In case you don’t know about that, just read my previous post. “And Then” the next phrase - Development.

AcSO is basically academic information sharing site, which will be run by the users (Web 2.0 concept). So, it has some amazing features, but no so hard to code. However, since we have four fellas in the team and we want this built well, we need to come up with a nice site structure.

There was an ASP.NET built in login system. It’s very easier to use. But there were some problems, by default it uses some kind of weird database and replacing it is not so easy. So, we argued about two days whether we shall use it or not and finally decided to code our own one which only took about 15 mins

First what we decided was to use portlets; basically, web parts. After developing sevaral portlets, we again reran an evaluation and decided that we don’t need portlets.

Then we had an exam paper and after all we have 3 and half days to build the application. So, we just started coding raw pages, and we used some base classes written for the web part application and here is the final result : http://team4366.webdev07.imaginecup.com/

There was one big problem when we are developing the site, “version controlling”. Keshan and Me replaced each others codes several times. So, after all we used manual version controlling mechanism. Before updating code, I always took a backup of the current site. Believe me, I have more than 300 MB in backup files. But, it along didn’t solve the problem. So, we started to working at shifts ;-).

Since these pages have put together in three sleepless days, there are lots of features missing. And we also didn’t have much time to put the validations, etc. Basically, we haven’t fine tuned the site. But anyway we are happy with the current progress of the site and if we go to the next stage, we should start development at least about a month before the deadline.

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