Poll the Audience

It has been awhile. I have started a new Job and things are going great... a little hectic but great nonetheless. Recently I have begun a project in my Software Engineering class that should prove to be rather interesting. The basic idea behind it is to create an ad hoc system that lets a Professor to issue a question and then allows the students to answer the question in a "Poll the Audience" fashion.

We plan to implement this using a web interface and ASP.net. We are planning to use C# for the back end code. The main obstacle we will face in the future is getting the application to interact with the client computers over the local area network.

Our goal is to have the professor create the question on their computer. The question will be saved in an XML format. When the student navigates to the website on their computer, it will pull the XML file from the professors hard drive and format it correctly in their browser. We are currently still in the planning stages but you can view our project wiki here.

I will try to post updates.

Until next time...

Updates

The last few weeks have been very hectic. I have numerous projects going on at school and I also underwent a job/career change. I have moved from a government job dealing with satellite imagery to a job in the banking industry.

Hopefully I will be able get back on track and begin posting more problems and solutions soon.

Until then...