Accountancy Workshop

Jack Wyn Williams who is a production accountant gave us a talk on general accountancy. Book keeping, tax and budgeting was addressed for both freelancers and staffs.

Legal Principles & Practicalities

Richard Pugh, a solicitor with 30 years of experience came and gave us a talk on legal practices. The elements that were addressed were:

• Law of contract
• Companies & Partnerships
• Rights/Option agreements
• Development rights
• IP (General)Exploitation (General)

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It was useful and interesting talk, because I had learned new things. Previously, in my academic study, I had studied IT legislation, which included some of the elements listed above.

CSS Training

CSS training was delivered by Jake Rayson. The training was a whole days training, which introduced use of CSS and some guidance for when using CSS.

<>It was useful training session for me because it was my first time getting my hands on CSS using Dream Weaver. I previously done CSS, but it was using notepad.

Visit from Unique Media

Jon Stethridge the managing director of Unique Media gave us a talk on shoot / edit and encode for streaming media. The talk also included some element on planning a project.

<>Elements on shooting a video and encoding them by using different types of encoding were also discussed. Encoding for a live broadcast was also addressed.

For more information on unique media, visit www.unique-media.com

Graduation Soon.....

Cyfle graduation is this month. Yep, 6 month gone quick :P hope you all attend to see us and see what we produced during our time at Cyfle.

Graduation will take place on 21st March 2007.

Please click on the link to read more about the graduation [http://www.cyfle.co.uk/english/view_news.asp?page=news&id=24]

To learn more about Cyfle courses, visit the website on [www.cyfle.co.uk]

Work Experience - Day 10 (2nd March 2007)

Final day began by attending a meeting on PID (Project Initiation Document). PID is a legal agreement between the client which states the Terms & Conditions, highlights the Budget, Time and the Scope. Questions such as when will it be done, who will do it and how are answered in the document. This document is used as sign off.

More on PID can be read on [http://www.ogc.gov.uk/documentation_and_templates_project_initiation_document_pid.asp]
Carried on with further testing to the Contract Shop website as the bugs were fixed. Few bugs I had found earlier this week which had been resolved.

It has been a great experience working with Sequence. Everyone is very friendly, helpful and approachable. Really enjoyed my 2 weeks :)

Thank you to everyone in Sequence, specially my brother Kamal for his support and patient

Work Experience - Day 9 (1st March 2007)

I carried out further testing on the Contract Shop website. Did some background reading on C#, pronounced C Sharp. C# is a language object orientated language developed by Microsoft. Sequence uses asp.net as well as C#.

More infor on C# can be found on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp]

Work Experience - Day 8 (28th February 2007)

Carried on with the Gwagle scoring mechanism research, and testing the Contract Shop website [www.contractshop.co.uk]. The Contract Shop website allows businesses to register their business.

Work Experience - Day 7 (27th February 2007)

Tested contract shop website did conducted research on scoring mechanism used by other people/organisation online. The scoring mechanism will be for voting for the best answer submitted by users in the Gwagle medical community website.

Work Experience - Day 6 (26th February 2007)

Today I continued with testing the Sell4wales website as well as re-testing the Buy4Wales site based on the client’s feedback.

A 2nd research task was given by Phil Murphy to work on regarding the Gwagle website. Gwagle is a medical community website in case anyone is not familiar with.