Posted by Toby A Inkster on 03/05/07 09:42

j1mb0jay wrote:

> Please can you have a read of my latest project design. Just wondering if
> anyone can think of things that I have missed out.
> http://users.aber.ac.uk/jap6/meety.html

Some ideas for further development:

1. This seems to be a specialised case of a calendar application.
Consider having the server provide a "feed" of the data in
iCalendar format, so that users can quickly view their calendar
from within an iCalendar-compatible application (e.g. Outlook,
iCal, Sunbird, etc) without having to log into Meety.

2. As per above, consider an RSS feed too.

3. Consider adding a web-based interface. Many universities will
have vast labs of non-Windows machines (certainly mine did),
rendering the Win32 fat client approach useless. .NET supposedly
makes providing a web-based interface for an already written
fat client easy. This will also help students to access the
system from Internet cafes and, if done carefully, mobile phones.

In summary, it's a data-drive app, so to make it more useful, you just
have to make the data available in more ways.

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