DuoMesh Project Blog

Today I had my interim presentation, explaining my ideas, technology used and my aims and objectives. My presentation was with Leon Cruickshank and Angelina Karpovich who seemed positive towards my ideas.

I think the presentation went well, though it went a lot quicker than I though it would and I didn’t get to show a demo of the website working on my mobile phone, but I think they got the idea. Most of their questions were about the functionality of the site and they were interested in the way that content/feeds are tagged and if the website will actually work on a Playstation 3 or the Xbox 360.

The Playstation uses a version of the NetFront browser which is also used in the Sony PSP. [Source: Wikipedia - 14 December 2006]
As I have a PSP which I have been testing my development on and this so far has been rendering my website correctly.

Currently the Xbox 360 does not have a built in internet browser [Source: Joystiq.com - 12 December 2006] though this maybe provided in a software update.

Yesterday I had my 3rd meeting with my project tutor Paul Kyberd we discussed all my project ideas and features.

I had quite a few ideas about how the site will function and what users will be able to use the site for. After going though a few of the ideas, he suggested that it may be too complex to code within the project time frame and to take the core ideas and make some of the other features optional rather than required (descope).

So I have decided to draw up a brainstorm to isolate and identify the core features and optional features.

He also suggested looking for mobile phone emulator which can be used for testing purposes, after some research there only seems to be a few mobile simulators an online version at: dotMobi, Palm OS (which requires that you actually have the phone so that you download the ROM from it), there’s also one for Windows Smartphones (or Windows Mobile) called Microsoft Mobile Explorer Emulator which doesn’t seem to be supported by Microsoft anymore (I am guessing that they have integrated it as part of Microsoft Visual Studio)

I will be using a combination of the dotMobi emulator and I will be using my own mobile phone which is an O2 XDA IQ running Windows Mobile 5.0 this can access the internet free of charge by using my laptops Bluetooth connection. I will also be using my Sony PSP to test that my website works on it, I will also use my old Dell PDA which uses an older version of Windows Mobile (2003).