So day 4 and the 9-5 shifts were starting to get to me, Tea has never meant so much to me. Came into work and the day before Paul wanted me to have a small look into free flash software and try to avoid using adobe flash. We had a little luck but came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to use a 30 day trial and get the website working and fully developed whilst we still have the 30 day trial.
Me and Gerald were both asked to work on a database project which they had been approached to do, the project involved all 6 hospitals in the Imperial College NHS Health Trust and setting up a database which hosted courses for their staff to go on, sort of like ebay where you can search and purchase courses to go on and then give a review of how the course was. As I lacked experience in databases, I wasn't really sure how to go about this task and as Gerald has specialised in databases at university, I left him and charge and let him show me how it all worked.
I realised that there were some aspects I worked on such as methodologies (waterfall model etc.) and the planning and design. But not enough for me to feel confident with going on with this task. In the end we decided to leave this till tomorrow as Gerald had some books at home with specialised in creating and designing databases.
Paul nicely gave me a copy of PRINCE2 and gave me a rough demonstration of what it was and how it works, he stated how important it was to understand this software and how it works as the majority of companies use it when it comes to project management and if you know it, it will give you a major advantage over other people when it comes to interviews for other companies. It turned out to be a 415 page document and realised how much there was. To sum it up it is like Microsoft Project but a lot more technical but I felt confident that I would be able to use it.
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