Date

Task / Assignment

270798

• Create week 4's task / assignment webpage.
• Download the application programs (internet VB tools) sent to us under Directory setup.new.
• Examine the functions/components in each of the tools.
• Found that the current application program for Crescent Internet Toolpak was out of date (3.01) and went to download a newer trial version (4.0) @ http://crescent.progress.com/n-download.html
• Tried out every of the components within the 3 different programs - Crescent Internet Toolpak, Distinct VIT FTP & TCP/IP and IP*Works! Visual Basic Edition, concentrating on the two major functions like FTP and HTTP.
• Briefly analyze the pros and cons of each of the internet tools.
• Attended a talk and video presentation by Mr Tralvex Yeap  on "Prevailing technologies for Intelligent Systems: Neural Networks" at the Third Country Training Programme (TCTP) for MIS delegates. (1hr)
• Also followed by a seminar on "Applications in Neural Networks" by a Japanese speaker, Dr. T. Ohira. (1hr 15 mins)

280798

• Read VB mailing list sent to personal account.
• Gather information on first internet VB tool from "Crescent Division of ProgressSoftware".
• Test out Crescent Internet's FTP and HTTP components again and evaluated on them.
• Found that both are suitable and very user-friendly (easy to use). Help guide is also provided.
• Locate second internet VB tool website - "Distinct VIT (Visual Internet Toolkit)" and gather information from there.
• Test out Distinct VIT's FTP Client and Server. Found that it's too difficult to use and that there is no HTTP component provided.
• Locate final internet VB tool website - "IP*Works! Visual Basic Edition". Look for relevant information about the tool.
• Evaluated the FTP and HTTP component. Found that both are more user-friendly than the first tool but due to the coding problems, the application cannot work and has to end halfway.
• Print out Source code of Crescent Internet Websearch to analyze their method of searching the web.
• Received KRDL's email id and password. Re-subscribe VB mailing list to the new email account - [email protected].

290798

• Add a new link in the ABBA webpage under Research Methods on the Evaluation Results of the Internet VB tools.
• Created Main page of evaluation results.
• Update Research Methods webpage and create links to evaluation results page.
• Scan and read through the Visual Basic Mailing List mails from e-mail account.
• Search and download from the internet for more animated gifs, backgrounds, lines, etc.
• Examine printed visual basic codes to determine how it works / operates together with the internet to retrieve the URLs.
• Edit Project Schedule webpage due to some errors and make some changes to it like the background and the table properties.

300798

• Created Crescent Internet ToolPak, Distinct Visual Internet Toolkit and IP*Works! Visual Basic Edition Evaluation Information webpage.
• Search for more gifs.
• State out the Advantages and Disadvantages of all the FTP and HTTP tools used.
• Refine the CI ToolPak webpage and added another weblink to CI other internet components.
• Refine Distinct VIT webpage and added links to all it's components.
• Refine IP*Works! webpage and added a link for the other controls beside FTP and HTTP.
• Finish evaluation of the 3 Internet Visual Basic Tools.

310798

• Make changes to ABBA webpage to add a link for a no-frame Industrial Webpage. Reasons for creating this new link for no frames is to allow other websurfers who do not like using frames to browse through the articles easily.
• Created a second main page of ABBA webpage with no frames at all.
• Created Organization Background and Useful Links without frames.
• Created Research Methods and  Appendix webpages to without a title frame.
• Re-save all the rest of the internal links to link to the webpages without frames like the Evaluation of Internet Tools.

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• Wrote weekly summary of task / assignment.