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Project SantiamWhenever Messenger

TeamLisa Eberle

Jason Favors

Ben Foran

AdvisorDr. Vegdahl, Dr. VanDeGrift

Industry RepresentativeMr. Gentry

Harland Financial Solutions

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Overview

• Introduction

• Scorecard

• Additional Accomplishments

• Plans

• Issues/Concerns

• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Whenever Messenger allows users to send messages to offline contacts

• Project Santiam is a web-based application that works with AOL instant messenger

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Scorecard• [Complete upcoming milestones]

– Send content from database to online user –done

– Identify when a user comes online – done– Identify when a user is already online – done

• [Anticipate and prepare to encounter difficulties with integrating the project]– Researched calling php script from Java – done

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Additional Accomplishments

• Continued work on basic website

• Major portion of upcoming milestone complete– Successfully store a message from

website that is sent once a user comes online (as long as already in the list of Whenever Messenger’s buddies)

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Additional AccomplishmentsScreenshot of sending messages

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Plans

• Complete website -> DB -> user sending

• Confirmation message

• Additional website pages

• Secure login for users

• Alpha Release

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Milestones

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Concerns/Issues

• Difficulties adding contacts from website

• Load for ‘whenever msngr’ over AIM

• Ongoing: AOL modifying its protocol

• May want more time scheduled for debugging

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Conclusions

• Hit February milestones

• Outlook good to complete March milestones, and to have basic functionality complete before Spring Break

• Leave room for error

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Questions

• Any questions?