Category: Consulting
When you get on google maps to plan out your vacation and it tells you how long your trip will take you to get there, how does google figure that out? Pretty easily actually. It takes the speed limits of all the roads it finds, and measures the distance of those road segments, and with those two pieces of information it can calculate the amount of time it will take you to get there.
My wife loves to go on vacations. Actually that’s more of an understatement than anything else. The last vacation we went on we went to Orlando, FL and rented a house there while going to Disney World. It was a lot of fun. So what does vacationing have anything to do with project management? Well, I’ll tell you. I call myself a technical team lead. My day usually consists of guiding my team on their current project and coaching them on how to improve themselves. As a lead, one of the things I really care about is knowing how the project we’re working on is coming along. There are a lot of methodologies out there about how to do this, but I want to take a really high level, common sense, approach to this issue and then figure out how the approaches I use work.
I’ve been using this PagedList functionality that i found from a blog article Rob Conery put up, and a control I found by Robert Muehsig which I’ve really enjoyed using so far.
One of the things that was missing from the functional set that I ended up needing was the ability to page the list, but through issuing AJAX requests instead of the typical post back.
So I went off and extended the existing model to support AJAX requests, and thought I would share it in case anyone else needed to do the same thing.
Is this hard to understand?
What is the email address on this card?
Maybe this is more understandable?
or I could swap the email and the site, maybe that makes it easier to read.
I’m getting there! This was suggested by Steven, and I think he’s completely correct.
I’m working on a reputation system for a site I’ve been recently working on (http://www.serveandtrade.com). I’m going through some ideas so I thought I’d post them on here and see what people think.
Let’s start buy throwing up what we currently have so we can see where we’re trying to go. Here’s a mockup of what a user will see when they search for trades right now.
I have a couple problems with how it works right now.
- I don’t like that it’s in a grid/table format. I have to fix that first. I’m moving more towards something like a list layout.
- There are some things missing that I would like to be able to do. For instance, if I just searched for “can of soup”, and I see that Michelle has the one I want, I would like to have a button/link/something to click on that says “I want that!” Right now the only thing you can do is go look at the trade, or ask a question.
- Clicking on the owner’s link takes you to their profile, but it doesn’t show you what other trades they have, or trades they are looking for. That information could really be useful.
I’m sure there are other things I could think of, but for now I’m going to start focusing on these three and build some mockups to illustrate these workflows.
First, getting rid of the grid.
This search list looks a lot better I think. There are some more features on here then the other one, but we’ll go over those in subsequent posts.
So at this point I’m looking for any feedback. ANY feedback, good or bad… I’ll take it all. I really haven’t made up my mind at this point yet, but I think I’m heading in the right direction.
Next post will be about the “I want it!” feature. Stay tuned!
