To work on the solar decathlon design mockups, the class was divided into groups of three to four students. I was paired up with Kylan Hughes and Chuan Hung. We started to talk about our design and we decided to use my previous mockup as a template for our group project. We used Google Project Hosting and SVN for our version control.
Team Work
Since we needed to create about 8 to 12 page design mockups, we decided to divide pages that we are going to work on. We chose the pages that we really knew about. Like for example, my "Security" page design was pretty much the ideal design that we are aiming for, so I was the one who worked on it. We met multiple time just to talk about what we needed to finish, asked for others input and for help too and the rest are through email. We really didn't need to meet for a long period of time as we keep each other updated just like what I mentioned through email and through the job updates and commits on the project hosting site.
Google Project Hosting
I have to say that Google project hosting was a huge help in finishing this project. We didn't really need to be at the same room to fully work on our project because we could just upload/commit our own page into the server and the whole group could check on it. I also have to say that we have to be careful in using this and the subversion control as it could mess up any changes made by other group member if I commit the whole project. We just have to remember to "Update" first before committing anything else. Below is our Google Project Hosting page.
http://code.google.com/p/solar-decathlon-teamhawaii-4/
All in all, the project when smoothly and we were able to really improve our designs because we were able to focus more on small number of pages through divide and conquer.
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