Evaluation Report for Assignment 1

Dear all peers,

The following is my elevator pitch for this blog.

I have shared my research on E-system through this blog. I really wrote down my experience of doing the exercise and workshops of course, including my joys and frustrations.

I have been an IT specialist for over 15 years and truly I have gained my expertise through my job. I am good at database management, business process analysis and project implementation. This time is really a good chance for me to extend my knowledge to e-commerce systems. To refresh me a lot even though I have got many troubles to get PHP, MySQL, Apache and Instant Rails to work on my computers. This is a good experience to expose myself to Open Source World and Online community.

I think I have spent quite some time on the research of Online Community or social networking. This is my favourite topic. You can enjoy it.

All the while, I have been very behind in the class. This is the main reason I don’t interact very with my course mates. I do get helps from Sam Kwong and Dennis Leung and refer to their blogs a lot. Like Workshop 3, I found it difficult to complete it until I read through Sam’s blog.

Honestly, the coverage of ITC 594 is very broad and not easy to complete the programming exercise. Anyway, I have been benefitted through the practical work. Now I know the free tools such as MySQL Query Browser, Aptana Studio ... which are not worse than MS SQL Query Analyer, Visual Studio...

If I had more time, I believe I would do much better.

Thank you for reading my blog.