Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

This is just a quick post to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

First Semester Completed


My first semester of Graduate School is completed! Grades are back (4.0) and the stress level is diminishing. Now I’m enjoying some much-needed family time with at my Aunt and Uncle’s house in South Carolina.

Carrello Demo Day! (CSCI 6050 Term Project)


Today my team for Dr. Kochut’s CSCI 6050 Software Engineering class will demo our term project, Carrello. As of svn revision 412, we estimate the following metrics on the lines of code:

  • Java: 5,625
  • Freemarker Templates & HTML: 1,079
  • CSS: 665
  • XML: 1,892

Here are some screenshots, for the curious:

The entire software development process (a modified version of the Waterfall model) was followed in the creation of this software system. The result is a system that I, as the Team Technical Editor, can say with confidence fulfills the functional and non-functional requirements presented to us at the beginning of the semester.

I would like to thank the entire Carrello development team: Mehdi Allahyari (Project Manager & Developer), Usman Nisar (Concept Modeler & Developer), and Haseeb Yousaf (Persistence Engineer & Developer). It has been an amazing semester! The experience we’ve gained and the teamwork we’ve demonstrated will definitely serve us well in the future.

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