Monday 14 May 2007

Welcome

Welcome to the new EIS blog. The plan, so far, is to keep this page up-to-date with things that we're working on and little bits and bobs that might be handy either as stand-alone gizmos or as springboards for your imagination regarding what EIS might be able to help you realise.

So - for a quick one-two of little snippets that we're working on at the moment:
  • GoogleMaps API: Gareth has been investigating this and has put together a small example of what it could be used for. A fairly simple map with a few location markers: http://www.yorksj.ac.uk/gmaps/simple.html
  • Online Tutorial Booker: A web-based application where tutors can advertise the availability of tutorials and students can sign up for them. It's under development at the moment and we're working closely with Nikki Swift from Linguistics to get a full release out for testing: http://intranet.yorksj.ac.uk/TutorialBooker/
  • Online Event Booking: A web-based application where customers can sign up for places on events you may be running.
  • Second Life: You may have read articles online or on one of the other York St John techie blogs. I have been investigating and exploring SL for a while now. If you're interested in a bit of a tour then let me know :)
There's lots of other things we're working on but these three allow you to take a bit of a sneak-peek at things you may see in production soon.

1 comment:

Terry said...

Looks great! It's a shame Google's satellite photos of York aren't that clear yet. And I like the tutorial booker -- does it tie in with Outlook?