Week 7 in FIT2001

This is a good time to talk about the Assignment.

I'm about 85% complete.. I have done the DFDs or Context diagram which was a nightmare at first because I looked all over the software we were given Visual Paradigm to do it and funny enough it doesn't have the DFDs, (its like MS Office not having Word) so for a while i was trying to figure out what to do. I went on the VP web site and I saw a sample DFD there and was thinking "Am I missing something here?".. I looked in the VP software again for DFDs but again, couldn't find it... I even looked at all the different diagrams in VP just in case they had called it something else.. but no success... Then finally through some thorough searching on the VP web i found that another software in their Suite of software handles the DFDs.. Its called Business Process Visual Architecture (BPVA). So i downloaded it and again there is a hurdle. No license key to run it.. seems we only got a student key to run the standard edition of VP.. So to go around this I downloaded the 30 day trial version of BPVA and finally got to use it to make DFDs..

Now i want ot get familiar with UML tools and thats why I went crazy trying to do it with a UML tool, otherwise I could have simply done it in PowerPoint in much less time and to be honest PowerPoint seems so much easier and straight forward to use.. But then, nothing ventured, nothing gained, so at least now I have experience doing it in UML and hopefully ill get a better understanding in using the tool for future professional tasks...
Apart from that I haven't done my weekly task yet and would do it once this assignment is done.. I want to get it out of the way in the next few days so I can free up the Month of May where my workload gets a bit heavy.. At least ill be 2 weeks ahead with my assignment and be glad once its done.. So far I'm 10,300 words and 36 pages long and I'm 85% done.. just need to add my class diagrams and conclusions.. But its not all length and no quality.. I am really working this assignment as if its a real life project and Im acting as the SA&D on the project.. I want to develop the best system possible and one that will stand out as a simple yet powerful solution to the Booking problem..

To finish up , here is something really funny... you need to see this..