DT230/DT210 MSc in Computing

Programming Paradigms Lecture - Thurs 1st Dec

2011-11-29T23:11:00.002Z

To all students:

The lecture for this Thursday night will take place in one of the first floor labs in Aungier Street, precise location to be advised, rather than in Kevin Street.

Paddy Matthews.

World Intellectual Property Day

2011-04-19T10:33:00.001+01:00

William Fry solicitors are organising a briefing around World IP Day
on the evening of May 4th next and are looking to attract graduates
(or soon to be graduates) who have a particular interest in the area
of intellectual property.
It's ideally suited to people who are developing (or hoping to
develop) something innovative as there will be a team of IP lawyers on
hand to provide free advice. (I know lawyers and free in the same
sentence, where's the catch? But, of course they're looking for
potential new clients to work with).

If is interested contact the organisers.
http://www.williamfry.ie/gns/news-events/events/11-01-21/World-Intellectual-Property-Day---Designing-the-Future.aspx

You can mention Frank O'Reilly (a fellow student of yours)as a contact.

Case Study - 16 April, 2011

2011-04-12T11:34:00.014+01:00

Our topic for this month's session is Data & Information Visualisation, an area of growing relevance and interest within business and academia.

Time: 10am-5pm
Location: K-E003
Map & Details

Daniel Archambault, a researcher at Clique, is our guest lecturer. Daniel's lecture will be a primer on data visualisation - starting with the basics of how the human mind absorbs visual information, moving through the different data visualisation models and concluding with real-world applications.

Clique is a joint academic and industry research initiative focused on the research challenges in the analysis, modelling, visualisation and understanding of social and biological networks.a Science Foundation Ireland funded (SFI) Strategic Research Cluster focused on graph and network analysis and visualisation.

Clique is housed within UCD's Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory (CASL) (http://www.ucd.ie/casl).

--
Group presentations: as we are nearing the end of the semester, in order to allow you explore areas that are of particular interest to you, you may discuss any topic you wish (as a group or individually).

Time limits (so we can get through all groups):
- group: 10 minutes each
- individual: 2-3 minutes each

exam timetable for DT210

2011-04-08T13:29:00.002+01:00

Hi all,

Below is the draft exam timetable for the May exams. These can change - so until you receive your own times by post - please keep that in mind. Any queries, give me a shout. Thanks Susan

Inclusive Learning through technology: Monday May 16 4:00- 6:00

Project and Change Management: Tuesday May 17 4:00- 6:00

IT Law and professional Issues: Monday May 23 4:00- 6:00

Universal Design: Tuesday May 24 4:00- 6:00

Enterprise systems and integration: ThursdayMay 26 4:00- 6:00

Foundation of Knowledgement Management: Friday May 27 9:30 - 11:30

Case Study - 26 March, 2011

2011-03-21T22:07:00.011Z

Liam Cronin of Microsoft, is presenting this month's session, starting at 10am in KE 3-008.

Topic(s)
Liam's presentation on Saturday will cover a variety of strategic technology topics relevant to Microsoft's business:

1) Introduction - Microsoft in Ireland
2) Cloud Computing & Windows Azure
3) Green IT
4) Openness at Microsoft
5) The Consumerization of IT

Speaker bio
Liam Cronin has 20 years experience working with Microsoft, starting in Localization in the European Development Centre. From 1997-2010, Liam was Academic Engagement Manager, which involved promoting the Imagine Cup, curriculum adaption and student/academic access to Microsoft software. In his current role as Compete & Open Source Lead, Liam is part of the Sales and Marketing/Developer Platform Evangelism (DPE) team building relationships with the Open Source community in Ireland and identifying what key competitors to Microsoft are delivering to Irish customers and partners. (You can find out more about Liam's work on his LinkedIn profile: "Liam C.")

Group mini-presentations - your choice...
1) "The Cloud - hot air or silver lining?"
OR...
2) Select a combination of topics. For example, "Technology in Ireland and what the future holds" or "KM and technology innovation", etc.
OR...
3) Choose a topic that reflects your area of interest

End: 16:30

Schedule of continuous assessments DT210

2011-02-28T11:01:00.002Z

Hi all,

Below is a schedule for your CAs - excluding the Case Studies Module ( Colman will let you know the date for that separately)

Week beginning:

28 Feb
March 7
March 14 Assignment 1 Project and Change Management, Enterprise Systems

March 21 Assignment 1 IT Law

March 28
Apr 4
Apr 11
Apr 18
Apr 25 Assignment 2 Project and Change Management

May 2 Assignment 2 IT LAw, Enterprise Systems (proposed)

Susan

Plagiarism Notes from Case Studies 26th Feb 2011

2011-02-26T13:09:00.003Z

The notes on plagiarism from this morning are available at
http://www.comp.dit.ie/msc/Plagiarism-cs-260211.pdf

Please email me if you have any questions or need any help with
this.

Deirdre

Case Study session - 26 Feb, 2011

2011-02-23T19:29:00.001Z

Hi folks,

Details on this Saturday's Case Study session...

Morning session
Start time: 10:00AM
Location: KE 3-008 (venue details)

Our guest speaker this month is John Hoey of Norkom. John will be providing real-world case studies relating to knowledge management, fraud and technology in both public and private sectors. Norkom is an Irish company providing leading financial, crime and compliance solutions to the global financial services industry (http://norkom.com).

Following John's presentation, Deirdre Lawless will conduct a short session on DIT's rules & policies regarding plagiarism.

Afternoon session
Start time: 14:00
Location: KE 3-008 (venue details)
Following the guest presentations, we will run a short groupwork session to synthesize and embed some of the topics presented by our two speakers.

Reminder : Universal Design Class Saturday

2011-02-03T17:19:00.001Z

The first Universal Design Class is on Saturday 5th starting @ 9.00 am
in KA-3-010

Foundations of KM module - 2011 S2

2011-02-03T09:24:00.001Z

The Foundations of KM (FKM) module will begin on Tuesday, 8 February, 2011.

Time: 18:30
Location: KE2-004

Please bring a laptop as you will need it for work during the class.

Please contact me if you have any questions: colman.mcmahon@dit.ie

Colman McMahon

Case Study sessions - 2010/11 (semester 2)

2011-02-03T09:15:00.000Z

The dates for Case Study sessions this semester are:

26 February, 2011
26 March, 2011
16 April, 2011
7 May, 2011

I will give advance notice of the topics as soon as I have them.

Colman McMahon

Timetable Semester 2 (with room numbers)

2011-01-31T13:16:00.001Z

This is the timetable for Semester 2

Mon 19:30 21:30 KA - 3-023 INTC 9141 Enterprise Systs & Integration Lecture
Mon 18:30 19:30 KA - G-025 INTC 9161 Project & Change Manage Lecture
Tue 18:30 21:30 KE - 2-004 SENG 9110 Foundation of Knowledge Mgmt Lecture
Tue 18:30 19:30 KA - 3-011 INTC 9161 Project & Change Manage Lecture
Tue 19:30 21:30 KA - 3-010 INTC 9171 IT Law & Profess Issues Lecture
Wed 18:30 21:30 KA - 3-021 ASTC 2401 inclusive Learning Through Technology Lecture
Sat 09:00 16:00 KA - 3-010 ASTC 1301 Universal Design Lecture
Sat 10:00 13:00 KE - 3-008 INTC 9151 Case Studies in Info Technology Lecture
Sat 13:00 16:30 KA - 3-023 SPEC 9220 Case Studies in Info Technology Lecture

Lecturers starting..

2011-01-28T12:08:00.002Z

Hi all - Hope you all had a well earned rest after your exams.

Lectures start again this coming week

Note that on the timetable, enterprise systems should show as 19:30 to 21:30 (2 hours, not 3)

Susan McKeever

Universal Design Classes

2011-01-26T15:23:00.001Z

Universal Design will be on the following Saturdays
05 February 2011
19 February 2011
05 March 2011
19 March 2011
02 April 2011

Timetable + Semester Start

2011-01-24T11:26:00.001Z

I hope you are enjoying a rest after the exams.

Classes will start next week - Jan 31st

There is a small changes to the timetable -
Inclusive Learning through technology has moved to Wednesday

Exam Locations

2011-01-06T17:23:00.001Z

The locations of the exams are posted on the day.
At the main reception of the Kevin St building there will be a list
of all exams posted on the noticeboard with the location
It is likely to be one of the following Gleeson Hall (beside main
porters desk)
Sports hall (beside the swimming pool), KE-1-054 (room 154 in the main
kevin st
building), any of the lecture rooms (KA-3-020 to 023)

They might be in another lecture room but these are the most common areas

Access to Comp website

2010-12-20T12:54:00.001Z

There has been a hardware failure on our internal DNS server.
To access the school website you can use its IP address:

http://147.252.224.87/website07/

Similarly to access staff websites you may use the format:

http://147.252.224.87/jbloggs

(example... http://147.252.224.87/bduggan)

Accessing staff web sites

2010-12-20T12:44:00.001Z

Hi all,

The staff webpages can only be accessed as follows -using mine as an example - :

http://147.252.224.87/smckeever/

This is due to a problem with the Domain Name Server. Please use this URL format until this problem has been rectified,

Thanks
Susan

Assignments

2010-12-20T12:33:00.002Z

To DT210 DT264

We've gone through the feedback for the continuous assessment assignments in class. To get your individual marks, just email me and I'll send them on to you. As with all marks, they are draft marks until ratified at the exam board in January.

I also wish each and everyone of you a very happy Christmas,

Thanks.
Susan
susan dot mckeever at dit.ie

Labs open Saturday 18th December

2010-12-16T12:13:00.000Z

The computer labs on the first floor of the Annex building are open on Saturday 18th December

Class rep for DT210

2010-12-16T11:22:00.003Z

Hi - a while back, I mentioned that we needed a class rep from the DT210 group. That person be a general representative for the class - can be a communications point for issues - and provides input on feedback on the course. Can you let me know if you would like to go forward for it? Just email me directly on susan.mckeever at dit.ie and we can confirm post Christmas

Note that you must be registered on the DT210 course. Go on!

Susan

Registration for Semester 2 2010/2011

2010-12-10T17:41:00.001Z

Good evening.

If you have already selected and paid for the modules you are
taking in semester 2 please ignore this post.

If you haven't then you need to contact registrations as soon as
you can and arrange for the modules you wish to take to be added
to your record and make payment for same.
All payments must be made before the end of January.
You can find the numbers you need at
http://www.dit.ie/cgi-bin/phonesearch.pl?firstname=&surname=&department=registrations&location=kevin+st&phone=&submit=Search

You can access the timetable at
http://www.dit.ie/registration/studentclasstimetables/

Once you have completed your registration can you send me a
short email listing the modules you are registered on in Semester 2.

Many thanks in advance for your assistance with this.

Regards

Deirdre

Case Study session - 11 Dec, 2010

2010-12-10T14:53:00.002Z

Hi folks,
Just a reminder about tomorrow's case study session that was postponed from last Saturday...

DIT Agenda: Knowledge Management in Drupal

Introduction
Brief Drupal background and introduction

Eating your own dog food v "ordering in"
- Tour of Acquia's Knowledgebase
- Comparison with commercial application also in use
- Challenges and successes at Acquia with knowledge sharing

Hands-on tour of KM tools in Drupal
- Taxonomy
- Workflow & Revision control
- Faceted search
- Node display
- Node Auto term
- Participation, commenting, flagging, community tagging
- Distribution and aggregation

Community
KM groups and projects in the Drupal community
- Who's working on it
- How to get involved

Interactive Demonstration
(this is the bit students will need laptops for)

Recap:

11 Dec, 2010
11AM
Heather James & Drupal
Bring laptop
Groupwork: CMS's, intranets, portals, etc

Presentation on Tackling Exams

2010-12-08T13:49:00.002Z

There will be a short 30 min presentation on general
tips on how to tackle your examinations on Wed 15th 2010 @ 18.00
in KA-G-026.

Deferral of Exams/Personal Circumstances

2010-12-08T13:45:00.000Z

Folks

Before you sit your exams you need to make sure you are familiar
with the DIT general assessment regulations (available at http://www.dit.ie/services/academicregistrar/student-assessment-regulations/general/)
and the programme document (available online at http://library.dit.ie search for DT210)

If you cannot attend an exam and know in advance (e.g. work commitments) you
need to do the following:
1. Request a deferral form from the examinations office
2. Complete the deferral form and return with documentary evidence
to support your reason to myself or Susan McKeever

All deferral requests are considered by the head of department and permitted/refused
at their discretion. It is VERY important that you submit some evidence with
your request.

If you are ill in the run up to an exam or on the day of an exam or any circumstances
happen which mean you cannot make the exam or feel you don't do well,
you need to submit a Personal Circumstances Form (available at
http://www.dit.ie/services/academicregistrar/student-assessment-regulations/general/)
and return it to the examinations office.
You must include a Professional Opinion Form with your circumstances.

Where you have submitted a personal circumstances it will be considered when the
examination board meets to consider your result. It will be treated as private and
discussed only with the programme mentor, programme chair, examinations officer
and chair of the examination board.

Deirdre

DIT shutting at 8:30 tonight (Monday Dec 6th)

2010-12-06T18:15:00.002Z

DIT is shutting at 8:30 tonight to allow people reliant on Dublin Bus to get home as buses finishing early. Richard's lecture will run from 6:30 to 7:15 and mine from 7:15.

Susan

Semester 1 Exam Numbers + Timetables

2010-12-06T11:34:00.001Z

I will be collecting your exam numbers and timetables from
the exams office this afternoon and will try to get them to you
over the next 3 days.

I will call into the various classes today if possible, tomorrow and Wednesday
or arrange for the relevant lecturer to take the letters for the people in
their class.

If your class does not go ahead and the college is open I will be in my office
@ 5.45 tonight Monday (KE-2-001 room 201 on the second floor)

If you can't make it in for class this week don't worry the exams office
will post whatever I haven't distributed by Thursday so you should get
it well in time for the exams start date.

Monday 6th - Data Mining

2010-12-06T10:09:00.000Z

Due to the current weather conditions and curtailment of trains, buses, etc., tonights (Monday 6th Dec) Data Mining class is cancelled.

POSTPONED - Case Study - 4 Dec, 2010

2010-12-02T14:53:00.001Z

All college buildings will be closed on Saturday, 4 December 2010 due to the bad weather so unfortunately our session is POSTPONED.

I will let you know if/when this presentation can be rescheduled.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

DIT opening times for next 3 days From Dec 2nd

2010-12-02T14:25:00.001Z

The following arrangements have been agreed for opening times over the coming days, due to continuing adverse weather and the unpredictability of public transport:

* Thursday 02 December
o All DIT buildings will close at 4 pm this afternoon, and classes will be cancelled

* Friday 03 December
o All DIT buildings will open from 10 am to 4pm
o Classes cancelled BUT scheduled examinations will take place as previously notified

* Saturday 04 December
o All DIT buildings will remain closed
o DIT Open Day has been cancelled, with great regret, and will be rescheduled in early January

We regret the inconvenience caused but these decisions have been taken to avoid further uncertainty.

Please check www.dit.ie for information re opening on Monday Dec 6th

Case Study Presentation - 04 Dec, 2010

2010-12-02T10:35:00.005Z

The final Case Study session for this semester is on Saturday morning at 11AM in KE3-008.

Our guest speaker is Heather James. Heather currently works for Acquia.com, the company founded by Drupal creator Dries Buytaert. Heather recently ran Ireland's DrupalCamp in Trinity College (http://www.drupalcampireland.org/).

Heather will be discussing Drupal, the open-source content management system. She will also be doing a side-by-side comparison with an a comparable system and showcasing a new KM system her company created. Finally, Heather will be demonstrating a new web tool for which you will need your laptops and DIT wifi login (please have laptops fully charged as there are very few plugs in the room).

The groupwork topic for the afternoon session will be on Content Management Systems, intranets, portals, publishing platforms, wikis, blogs, etc.

Weather: currently DIT Kevin Street is scheduled to be open on Saturday morning. Heather is taking the train from Sligo so she should be able to make it. If conditions deteriorate significantly, if the college is closed or if the trains are stopped the session will be postponed. Please check your email on Saturday morning for notifications. As of now, we're on...

To recap:

4 Dec, 2010
11AM
Heather James & Drupal
Bring laptop
Groupwork: CMS's, intranets, portals, etc.
Check email Sat morning!

DIT closure Dec 1st

2010-12-01T16:37:00.001Z

See message from public affairs

DIT BUILDINGS TO CLOSE FROM 4PM TODAY, WEDNESDAY 01 DECEMBER UNTIL NOON TOMORROW, THURSDAY 02 DECEMBER

Due to the worsening weather conditions and reduced public transport services, DIT will close from 4pm today, Wednesday 01 December, till noon tomorrow, Thursday 02 December. Students and colleagues are requested to check their email and the DIT website for further updates.

We regret this inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.

Public Affairs Office

Class Cancelled

2010-11-30T17:39:00.001Z

Tonight's class in Programming and Patterns is cancelled due to the weather conditions.

Apologies for the late notice,

Paddy.

Exam Timetable + Exam Number for Winter Exams

2010-11-30T15:55:00.001Z

Your exam numbers and timetables will be distributed to you next week.
I will be in touch next Monday to let you know mechanism, times and locations.
If anyone can't make it in to receive their number and timetable - these
will be posted out to them

Research Methods Class Tuesday 30th Nov 2010

2010-11-30T13:55:00.001Z

Due to the extreme weather and the material due to be covered
tonight there will be no class for research methods this evening
Tuesday Nov 30th

Snow and all that

2010-11-29T18:46:00.002Z

For the DT210 and DT264 students , Richard is running his Monday class from 6;30 to 7:30. I am going to cancel my Database and Information Systems class as I don't think it's a great idea to have people going home at 9:30 with the forecast of snow.

In the meantime, for my class, to anyone who hasn't yet, please send me in your Part 2 assignment to my email susan.mckeever@dit.ie

Thanks all, and travel safely
Susan

Lab Opening Saturdays

2010-11-25T19:32:00.001Z

Access will be provided to the computer labs from
Saturday December 4th.

Databases and Information Systems assignment

2010-11-23T14:14:00.003Z

Just to clarify, for the Part 2 assignment - and Entity Relationship Diagram is required for just ONE of the Enterprise Resourcce Planning functions (such as customer relationship management or sales processing etc). You don't need to do an ERDiagram for all ERP functions!

Thanks
Susan

SAS Server

2010-11-05T10:29:00.002Z

It appears that the SAS server is now running correctly.

Brendan

Oracle logons

2010-11-05T09:53:00.001Z

For anyone studying Database and Information Systems, and who hasn't yet received their Oracle login - can you send me your

Network login user name (e.g. smckeever)
Your student number - D0993... etc
Your course code (i.e. DT210 .. DT264 etc)

Send to my email address at susan dot mckeever@dit .ie

Thanks
Susan

Exam dates

2010-11-04T20:31:00.004Z

I'll go through draft dates and some related points in class on Monday - the dates haven't been published yet by the Exams office.

Susan

Case Studies Presentation - 6 November, 2010

2010-11-02T15:34:00.002Z

Details of our session for this coming Saturday, 6 November, 2010 starting at ***11AM ***.

Our guest speakers and topic for this presentation are:

Graham Manning and Andrei Grigoriev of SAP

SAP's “Live Enterprise” suite and its applications in industry

"Live Enterprise" is an event-driven, real-time business intelligence product developed in SAP's Dublin Development Centre.

Graham graduated from the MSc in Information Technology (DT230) in 2009 so it's great to have former alumni return and share their experience.

Drupal Camp 20th - 21st November 2010

2010-10-27T14:57:00.000+01:00

The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st November in Trinity College Dublin and will run from 9am to 5pm both days. Registration is free and you can now sign-up for this event at http://www.drupalcampireland.org.

Presentations in two tracks: White belt and black belt
The event will include presentations from experienced Drupal developers where people can learn more about Drupal, what it can do and how it can benefit both them, their careers and their organisation. There will be two tracks, so participants of all levels will be catered for.

- White Belt track: For newcomers and beginners.
- Black Belt track: For intermediates and experts.

About Drupal
Drupal is a powerful open source content management system which allows users to easily publish, manage and share a wide variety of content on the internet. There is a great demand for people who know this software and demand is growing. Drupal's many features and add-ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; including for marketing, internal communications, informational websites, and for social networking purposes. See http://www.drupal.org

About the Irish Drupal user group
This event is being organised by the Drupal Ireland user group - a volunteer membership group. The group is comprised of developers who use Drupal everyday; who contribute to Drupal core, documentation and maintain popular modules.

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, this event is being held free of charge. Lunch is also being provided, and while registration is free, we would ask people to register before hand so we can cater accordingly.

More information on the event, including accommodation and car pooling, can be found at http://drupalcampireland.org

Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar

2010-10-27T14:56:00.001+01:00

The second of this year's talks in the Dublin Computational
Linguistics Research Seminar DCLRS series will by given this week by
Dr. Ielka van der Sluis of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation
at Trinity College Dublin.

This year the DCLRS series is being organized by the Artificial
Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC) in DIT, and is generously
supported by the CNGL and the DIT School of Computing.

The talk will take place in KE 308 in Kevin Street @ 16.00. Tea and biscuits
to be provided!

--- Speaker:
Dr. Ielka van der Sluis. Centre for Next Generation Localisation,
Trinity College Dublin.

--- Title:
Cross-Cultural Assessment of Automatically Generated Multimodal
Referring Expressions in a Virtual World.

--- Abstract
This talk presents a cross-cultural evaluation of an algorithm for
generating multimodal referring expressions to be produced by embodied
conversational agents in a virtual world. The algorithm employs a cost
function to implement general principles of
human motor control and cooperativity in dialogues that can be
parametrised so as to vary the precision of the pointing gestures and
the amount of linguistic information included in the referring
expressions. The study evaluated how native speakers of English and
Japanese perceived three different algorithmic outputs for multimodal
referring behaviour. Results show differences between English- and
Japanese-speaking subjects with respect to their preferences for types
of multimodal referring expressions. In the talk these differences are
related to matters of understandability, human-likeness and
culture-specific social practices. Methodological issues arising from
the translation and localisation of the materials used in the study as
well as its background and preparations are also addressed.

This research is supported by the Science Foundation Ireland (Grant
07/CE/I1142) as part of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation
(www.cngl.ie) at Trinity College Dublin.

KEYWORDS: generating referring expressions, multimodality, virtual
worlds, realisation of referring expressions, dialogue, translation,
cross-cultural differences, social practices.

--- Time and Location:
KE308, Kevin Street @ 16.00, Friday 29th of October

Late Registration

2010-10-22T13:26:00.003+01:00

You need to register and pay before Friday October 29th
to avoid a late fee.
If you have had problems with acceptance of an offer please
contact me (deirdre.lawless@dit.ie) asap
http://www.dit.ie/registration/

Databases downloads

2010-10-17T20:21:00.000+01:00

For Databases and Information Systems Semester 1, our practical sessions use Erwin (for documenting ERDs) and Oracle (or an alternative database if you wish).

These are available in the lab (bar last week's sign in problems) but you may want to have your own independant set up to use outside of college.

You can download a free copy of Erwin (Erwin Community Edition) at
http://erwin.com/products/detail/ca_erwin_data_modeler_community_edition/

and a free copy of Oracle Express at:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/express-edition/overview/index.html.

Susan

Case Study Presentation - 16 Oct, 2010

2010-10-15T11:40:00.004+01:00

This week's Case Study session will start at 10am in KE3-008.

This session's topic is Open Source technology and will be delivered in three parts:

"Taking Small steps into the Open source community" - Laura Czajkowski
Laura Czajkowski, has been involved in the open source community in one way or another for the last 10 years. When in UL she studied Computer Systems and got involved with the Computer Society skynet and ran her first major conference. Since then she's gotten involved in the Ubuntu community here in Ireland and also internationally. For the past 4 years she has worked in Software Testing and documentation and is now moving to the UK to pursue a career in Open Source Advocacy as a project manager in Marketing.

"Open Source and you. All possibilities" - Andrea Magnorsky
Andrea Magnorsky is a professional software developer and has accrued many years of experience building solid applications. Looking for ways to improve code she came across Rails and the Castle stack, as well as many other open source frameworks Andrea is heavily involved in the organisation of Alt Net in Dublin.

"How open source software affects your business model" - Ana Nelson
Ana Nelson has a Ph.D in economics and currently works in financial
services as an analyst and software/systems developer. She has written
several open source projects and contributed to many more, and uses open
source every day in her work.

The three speakers met through Geek Girl Dinners, a group for women in IT.

DIT Security Awareness Week

2010-10-13T17:11:00.000+01:00

Security Awareness week is on next week from 18th to 22nd
Information Security awareness week is open to all students and staff and will provide an overview of why information security matters to all of us and what we need to do to protect ourselves from identity theft and other IT threats. Awareness seminars will take place in venues across DIT and will provide:

Simple tips on how to protect yourself at college and at home
Data protection - the legal implications for a data breach
Information on how staff can get their DIT laptops encrypted
Details on how obsolete DIT laptops can support development work in Malawi through Laptops4africa@dit.ie.

Further details available at
http://www.dit.ie/services/is/staff/itcompliance/infosecweek/

Tuesday night - 5th October

2010-10-05T15:24:00.002+01:00

Richard Lawlor will be taking tonight's class in KA-308.

Case Studies Presentation - 02 October, 2010

2010-10-01T13:52:00.003+01:00

***Due to college registrations, the session will not start until 11:30AM.***

Title: "Voice Portal Applications and other Speech-driven Knowledge Systems"
Speaker: Robert Ross
Robert is currently an IRCSET Research Fellow in the AI Group at the Dublin Institute of Technology. In addition to working in academic and research institutes, Robert has also worked in a number of technology firms, including systems development at Silicon Software Systems in Dublin.
Start time: 11:30AM
Location: KE 3-008 (venue details)

Groupwork session
Start time: 14:00
Following the guest presentations, we will run a short groupwork session to synthesize and embed some of the topics presented by our two speakers.

IT Security & Forensics Thursday 30th

2010-09-28T14:41:00.001+01:00

There will be no class on Thursday 30th of September

Case Studies module

2010-09-28T10:13:00.002+01:00

The Ccase Sstudies sessions on Saturdays will be held in KE 3-008 (large lecture hall on the third floor)
Here are some instructions for students: http://dt230dt210.blogspot.com/2010/02/case-studies-location-facilities.html

Susan

Instalment Option for Part-time Students

2010-09-23T16:24:00.001+01:00

In response to student needs, DIT has approved the following instalment option for PART-TIME students paying programme fees totalling €2,000 or more.

Conditions of the policy are as follows:

A two-phase instalment facility will be available to part-time students registering on a programme before the 31st October, where their tuition fee plus the capitation fee amounts to a fee of €2,000 or more.

· The instalment option is available on request only.

· The closing date for instalment requests is 31st October each year and no request will be considered after that date.

· Any student with a balance outstanding from a previous academic session cannot avail of this instalment option.

This policy comes into effect immediately.

Amount of Instalment

· 50% of the tuition fee and 100% of the capitation fee must be paid on registration.

· The first instalment must be a minimum of €1,750 euro.

· The second instalment must be paid no later than 31st January each year.

If a part-time programme commences at any other time of year (eg in January):

· The first instalment must be paid on registration and the second instalment no later than 30th April.

· Applications for the instalment facility for programmes with a January start will not be considered after 28th February and the same conditions as above applies.

Late payment penalties

If a student defaults on a payment the following late payment penalties apply;

· The first instalment payment must be made in full on registration. If the payment is not made the student will not be registered.

· If a student defaults on the second instalment, a late payment penalty of €180 will apply.

· If a student does not pay the second instalment, plus the late charge of €180, by 28th February they will be removed from the register (coded to PN on banner) and they should not attend classes, submit assessments or sit examinations.

· A re-registration fee of €220 will apply to those part-time students who wish to re-register on the programme and complete the year.

Part-time students wishing to avail of this facility should contact the Registration office in Kevin St for further details(01 402 4687)

Haven't registered yet? Request temporary log ons

2010-09-23T09:38:00.002+01:00

For post grad students who haven't yet registered, you'll need to request a temporary logon from our technical support group. This will enable you to sign in in the labs in order to do your practical work.

To request your temporary logon, you need to send an email to student_tech@comp.dit.ie

Susan

Case studies in IT dates

2010-09-21T13:20:00.002+01:00

The Saturdays dates for the Case Studies in IT for this and next semester are:

2 October, 2010
16 October, 2010
6 November, 2010
20 November, 2010
4 December, 2010

26 February, 2011
12 March, 2011
26 March, 2011
16 April, 2011
7 May, 2011

The sessions run from 10:00-17:00 with an hour break for lunch in the middle.

Susan

Programming and Patterns

2010-09-17T16:55:00.003+01:00

Programming and Patterns lectures begin on Tuesday evening at 7.30.

Some of you should be able to use WebCourses to access the material, but for those of you who aren't, I'll be putting up material at http://dt210-2009.blogspot.com/ - last year's notes are there at the moment but I'll be reorganising them as the year proceeds.

See you on Tuesday,

Paddy.

Registrations S1 2010/2011

2010-09-17T16:31:00.001+01:00

For new students, once you have sent me on your details registrations will contact
you about how to pay and get your student card.
Please Note: You must have formally accepted a place before I can set your record up.

For returning students, if you have already sent me details but not heard from
registrations yet you can contact them by phone on Monday.

You can get the list of numbers from
http://www.dit.ie/cgi-bin/phonesearch.pl?firstname=&surname=&department=registrations&location=kevin+st&phone=&submit=Search

If you haven't already been in touch with me then please do so by
Wednesday Sept 22nd.

DT210 Timetable + Class Start

2010-09-17T14:36:00.002+01:00

Classes start on Monday 20th September.

I'll be in my office Tuesday from 17.30 if people need
to talk to me about anything.

Rooms will be changing over the next week. I'll do my best
to keep you updated via the blog.

Click here to view the timetable.

Academic calendar

2010-09-14T15:22:00.003+01:00

The academic calendar for the year is available at
http://www.dit.ie/services/academic/calendar/

It shows you the teaching week numbers, exam weeks and holidays

Susan

Introduction Evening - Update

2010-09-13T19:05:00.001+01:00

There is now a corrected version of the programme handbook available from here.

Also posted is the presentation from Susan this evening.

Let me (Deirdre) know if you find any errors in the handbook.

Also, when you get a chance email me your module selection.

Programme Handbook/Student Handbook

2010-09-09T11:32:00.001+01:00

The latest version of the programme handbook and student handbook

for the programme are available from the list of useful links

Provisional Timetables 2010/2011

2010-08-27T16:00:00.003+01:00

Provisional timetables for 2010/2011 available as pdf file

below.

Please Note all timetables are subject to change

until classes start.

Classes will start on Sept 20th

All students will be contacted in advance by the programme

chairperson to arrange for registration records to be created.

DT210.pdf (part-time programme)

Internet Systems Assignment Reminder

2010-05-07T16:08:00.002+01:00

A reminder to all students taking Internet Systems. There is no class next Monday 10 May. Instead, please come to room A115 @ 1:30pm on Wednesday 12 May to demonstrate your assignment. A reminder!! NO student will receive a grade for the assignment without a demo. If for any reason you cant demo on the day, you must make an arrangement in advance!

Bryan

Semester 2 2009/2010 Examinations

2010-04-15T12:28:00.001+01:00

The exams office are currently preparing the exam timetable.
They will be sending out details in the post to everyone over the
next week. If you have not received anything by Friday 23rd then
please contact them directly at 01 402 4601, 01 402 4602,
01 402 4600

Please be patient. This is a very stressful time for the exams office.
The more queries they have to answer the less time they have to
send out the material.

The exams will be scheduled to start the week of May 17th and will
be spread over the allowed time.

Case Studies Presentation - 17 April, 2010

2010-04-14T10:15:00.003+01:00

Hi folks,

Our guest speaker this month is John Hoey of Norkom (http://norkom.com).

John has a wealth of experience in the technology sector and will be providing a real-world case studies relating to both public and private industry.

The session will follow the usual format: 10:00-16:00 in KE3008, with John starting us off at 10am.

Reminder: Case Studies Session March 27th

2010-03-23T17:06:00.002Z

There will be a case studies session March 27th starting at 10.00 in KE-3-008

Case Studies Presentation - 27 March, 2010

2010-03-12T16:21:00.003Z

Hi folks,

This session will feature two guest speakers followed by a group session.
As usual, we will be located in KE3-008 and commence at 10am.

Speaker: Michael Porter
Michael is a senior management consultant who has worked in healthcare, public sector and IT for over 20 years in the United States and Ireland.
Title: "Benefits Realisation - Aligning IT With Business Strategy and the Challenges and Facing IT Professionals" (provisional title)
Start time: 10:00

Speaker: Robert Ross
Robert is currently an IRCSET Research Fellow in the AI Group at the Dublin Institute of Technology. In addition to working in academic and research institutes, Robert has also worked in a number of technology firms, including systems development at Silicon Software Systems in Dublin.
Title: "Voice Portal Applications and other Speech-driven Knowledge Systems"
Start time: 13:30

Groupwork session
Start time: 15:00
Following the guest presentations, we will run a short groupwork session to synthesize and embed some of the topics presented by our two speakers.

PhD Seminar Monday March 15th 2010

2010-03-12T12:27:00.001Z

This seminar will be in KA-3-010 from 18.30 - 20.00

All welcome

Case Studies Presentation - 06 March, 2010

2010-03-05T17:10:00.002Z

Hi folks,

Our guest speaker for the next Case Studies session will be Nazar Rasheed, on 6 March, 2010 at 10am in Room KE 3-008.

Nazar has a long career in the IT industry in Ireland and internationally. In 2008, Nazar took a sabbatical to complete an MSc in Healthcare Informatics at Trinity College Dublin. Before this Nazar's previous position was with Norkom Technologies in Dublin.

Nazar's presentation will focus on the practical benefits of IT, Rapid Application Development (RAD) and two real-world, healthcare case studies he was involved with.

Following Nazar's presentation, there will be a short demo by 4th Year student Liyu Ma (DT228 Computer Science). Liyu has created a software system that he hopes to get feeback on for his final year project: http://www.comp.dit.ie/dlawless/liyuma.

The afternoon session will consist of groupwork and peer presentations.

Case studies -location and facilities

DT210 - Payment for Semester 2 2009/2010

2010-03-03T19:58:00.002Z

Payment for modules taken in Semester 2 2009/2010 is now overdue.

If you haven't already done so you should contact Registrations on

01 402 4687 asap.

If you fail to make payment you will be unable to sit exams nor will

any assessment work be accepted from you.

Seminar Invitation: Studying for PhD

2010-03-03T19:57:00.001Z

In response to a number of requests from students from a range of programmes a seminar has been arranged where a number of members of staff of the school will provide a range of information on studying for a PhD full-time or part-time.

This seminar will cover what is involved in doing a PhD,why you should consider it, where to find out information about opportunities, studying part-time and provide opportunities to talk to existing PhD students in the School of Computing

The seminar will be held on Monday March 15th @ 18.30 to 19.30

In order reserve appropriate accommodation and refreshments, if you would like to attend the seminar please subscribe at the following Doodle poll:http://www.doodle.com/zk6p4ymwfgpbfyi6

The poll will close @ 5 pm on Friday March 5th 2010

Lecture Cancellation: Project and Change Management February 16th

2010-02-16T11:56:00.001Z

There will be no lecture tonight with Colm O'Suilleabhain

Case Studies - Location & Facilities

2010-02-12T09:19:00.005Z

College location:
Faculty of Science
Dublin Institute of Technology
Kevin Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
Tel: +353 1 402 4585

View Larger Map

Parking:
It is generally possible to park in the college on Saturday mornings.
Car park may be closed on graduation, open days, etc.

Room location:
KE 3-008 (3rd floor)
Take stairs from the main lobby. Turn right at 3rd floor, walk to the end of the corridor and the lecture theater is in on your right.

Room facilities:
The room is an amphitheater-style lecture hall with seating for approx 80.
There is a podium, built-in projector and screen.
Internet access is available (network cable and/or WiFi).
On cold days it can get chilly.

Food & Beverage:
The college canteen is closed on Saturdays.
There are many shops, restaurants and cafes on Wexford Street a few minutes walk away (turn right out front gate of college, towards Stephen's Green direction).

Registering for Semester 2 09/10

2010-02-09T14:34:00.001Z

Your records for Semester 2 have been set up.
You should call registrations to make the necessary payment.

Contact Numbers can be found from
http://www.dit.ie/tools/contacts/

Enter Registrations for the Dept and Kevin St for the location

Enterprise Systems Lecture Mon 8th Feb Cancelled

2010-02-08T17:23:00.001Z

There will be no lecture in Enterprise Systems this evening Mon 8th Feb

Case Studies Presentation - 13 Feb, 2010

2010-02-08T15:38:00.005Z

Hi Folks,

We'll be starting Semester 2 Case Study module this Saturday, 13 February, 2010 at 10am (Room KE 3-008).

I just got confirmation from our speakers and it promises to be a very interesting session. Three members of the Open Source Software community in Ireland will be coming in to discuss open source software from strategic and technical perspectives.

Laura Czajkowski

Founder of OSSBarCamp, Laura will start the session with an introduction to OSS, the Ubuntu Community and how to get involved.
- Laura Czajkowski's blog

Patrick O’Connor & Paul O’Malley,

Patrick and Paul will give a presentation entitled, "How to teach your boss to FLOSS" (demonstrating the value of contributing to and using FLOSS in your organisation and then how to successfully integrate FLOSS practices into your organisation’s IT).
- Patrick O'Connor's blog
- FLOSS on Wikipedia

Declan McGrath

Declan will finish off the session with a presentation on Ruby, OSS Development and OSS in Ireland

I recommend you do some preparation before the session researching current trends within open source software and give some consideration as to how it might be exploited within your organisations, pros/cons, etc., and furthermore, how OSS could be relevant to your dissertation. There will be ample opportunity for discussion and debate.

As this is our first day back, we will not be doing an afternoon session.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

Regards,
Colman

Meet Dr Chris Horn, IONA Technologies Wednesday 10 Feb 12:45 - 2pm, Gleeson Theatre, DIT Kevin St

2010-02-02T15:58:00.001Z

From

Ruth Kearney
Marketing Officer
DIT Hothouse

Be Inspired Series

DIT Hothouse in conjunction with Dublin City Enterprise Board (DCEB) present a series of live interviews with successful entrepreneurs who have included; Sarah Newman, Patrick Cooney, Denis O’Brien, Eamonn Fallon, Bill Cullen and Brody Sweeney. Videos of the events are available from our website www.hothouse.ie

Dr. Chris Horn - IONA Technologies

Dr. Chris Horn is co-founder of IONA Technologies which was once one of the largest top ten software companies by revenue in the world and the 5th largest IPO in the history of Nasdaq in 1997. Chris is currently President of Engineers Ireland and a member of the Innovation Taskforce.

Chair Conall O’ Móráin, Sunday Business Show, TodayFM interviews Hothouse entrepreneurs;

Andy Hirst CEO itabs, a music software company providing quality tab notation for stringed instruments.

Matt Norton, MD of Sentry Wireless, an award-winning provider of mobile security solutions.

Date: Wednesday 10 February 2010

Where: Gleeson Theatre, DIT Kevin Street Map;

Time: 12.45 - 2.00

Places are limited so email hothouse@dit.ie to register

DT210 S2 09/10 Module choices

2010-01-29T17:13:00.001Z

Folks

I've published what I've recorded against your student number

http://www.comp.dit.ie/dlawless/DT210S20910Choices.pdf

This includes updates received as at 16.00 today 29th Jan

If you want to change anything then email me.
Otherwise I'll assume this is correct and will forward
details to Registrations on Friday 5th February.

Deirdre

Semester 2 2009/2010 Timetables

2010-01-28T17:27:00.001Z

The timetables for Semester 2 are now available -
the link and username needed are available from
http://www.dit.ie/services/registration/timetables/

If you haven't decided your module choices for Semester 2
please let me know by email to deirdre.lawless@dit.ie
by 12 noon on Friday Feb 5th what modules you would like to
take. If you have previously told me and there is no change
then I will use those details and there is no need for an email.

PLEASE NOTE:
Business Systems Intelligence WILL NOT be offered on
Monday evening it is appearing as a legacy and will be
deleted

Research opportunity in China

2010-01-19T15:35:00.001Z

Dear All,

The Science & Technology Fellowship Programme in China (STF China) has announced the second call for applications of researchers due to start in April 2010.

The STF China Programme is the pilot phase of an EC action in the People’s Republic of China aiming at building bridges between the EU and the People’s Republic of China in the Science & Technology domain. STF China will promote mobility of EU researchers towards the Chinese research and development area.

The fellows will be offered:

2 days briefing in Brussels prior to the departure
6-month tailor-made Chinese language and research culture training in Beijing
18-month practical research period in a Chinese host organisation
networking and events for STF fellows including support to the formation and functioning of an STF fellow alumni organisation

To apply eligible candidates must

· either have a postgraduate degree (MSc or MPhil, etc) and two years research experience or hold a doctoral degree and

· have a research project that they intend to carry out in China during their research period of 24 months and

· Be supported by a EU sending organization and Chinese host institution

· preferably have very limited or no knowledge of the Chinese language

If you are interested in this opportunity, find out more on http://www.euchinastf.eu/. There may be funding available to help successful applicants with expenses not covered by the scholarship - deadline 29th October 2009. Contact Dr. John Donovan at john.donovan@dit.ie for further information.

Kind Regards,

Gerolmina

...

Gerolmina Di Nardo

Coordinator of Graduate Research School Office

Dublin Institute of Technology

143-149 Rathmines Road

Dublin 6

Ireland

Tel. +353 1 4023374

F. +353 1 4023393

E. gerolmina.dinardo@dit.ie

W. www.dit.ie/graduateresearchschool

Examinations - use of dictionaries

2010-01-08T17:29:00.001Z

Students who wish to use a dictionary in their exams need permission
from the head of school - Dr. Lillis (deirdre.lillis@dit.ie)
If permission is granted, the dictionary must be brought to the exams
office before the exam for checking. Only certain types of dictionary are permitted.
If an invigilator does not know a student has permission to use a dictionary
it will be confiscated.

Examinations - Monday Jan 11th

2010-01-08T13:36:00.001Z

Please check your DIT email urgently.
Exams scheduled for Monday Jan 11th have been postponed to another date.
All exams scheduled for later in that week should be considered to be going ahead
unless you receive a notification from DIT
You should be checking your DIT email regularly for updates from now on.

Case Studies Session Jan 9th - Cancelled

2010-01-08T10:49:00.001Z

Due to the bad weather the Case Studies session on Jan 9th is cancelled.
Alternate arrangements will be made in the next few days.

Case Studies Assignment - hard copies

2009-12-12T17:52:00.008Z

Apologies for this late direction, but hard copies of your assignment work are required for correction purposes.

There is a printer available to all students in the MSc room in Aungier Street, #3030.

Individual Assignment - hard copy collection
I will be at the canteen in Kevin Street on Thursday, 17 December from 18:30-19:00.
Alternatively, assignments can be left with Deirdre Lawless in her office on Tuesday, 15 December from 18.00-18.30.
***UPDATE***
You may also post it to me if you wish to save a trip:
Colman McMahon,
6 Gardiner Place,
Dublin 1.

Personal Portfolio - hard copy collection
Please bring to session on Saturday, 9 January, 2010
KE 3-008, 10AM

Group Presentations - hard copy collection
Please bring to session on Saturday, 9 January, 2010
1 print-out, per group
KE 3-008, 10AM

If you have any questions, please contact me: cajmcmahon[at]gmail.com
Colman

Options available in Semester 2 2009/2010 - Presentation Wed Dec 9th

2009-12-08T16:27:00.001Z

There will a short presentation of the options available to both full-time and part-time students in Semester 2 on Wednesday Dec 9th @ 18.00 in KE-1-114.
Tea/coffee and sandwiches will be provided. Classes will start late that evening
at 19.00 to facilitate students who need to attend the presentation.
All students are welcome including those who have just started the evening route.

Case Study Presentation - 05 Dec, 2009

2009-12-05T08:41:00.002Z

Graham Manning, a recent graduate of the MSc in Information Technology (DT230/210), will be joined by colleagues from SAP to give a presentation on:

SAP “Live Enterprise”
An event-driven, real-time business intelligence product, and its applications in industry.

This suite was developed in SAP's Dublin Development Centre.

The session will begin at 11AM in KE 3-008.
After lunch we will convene in the smaller setting of room KA3-020 (A320) in the Annex Building.

Semantic Web Breakfast - November 25th 2009

2009-11-13T17:40:00.001Z

You are invited to a business breakfast on Wednesday 25th of November from 8:00-9:45 am that will explore, demystify and explain some of the legal challenges and commercial possibilities of the Semantic Web, the next evolution of the World Wide Web.

The seminar which is being organised by the Irish Software Association in association with business law firm Mason Hayes+Curran and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) will be held at the offices of MH+C, South Bank House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4.

This is a must attend event for anyone in the technology sector as well as those in business and the public sector who use the World Wide Web to interface with their clients and the customers they serve.

To book a place, please register with Amie Hanley at amiehanleymhc.ie.

For more information
http://www.deri.ie/research/events/#collaboratecom2009

Dublin Institute of Technology - Policy on Unfair Practice in Assessment

2009-11-03T17:00:00.003Z

It is the responsibility of each student to be familiar with the general assessment regulations of the Dublin Institute of Technology and the policy of the Dublin Institute of Technology with regard to plagiarism.

Under these guidelines, plagiarism, along with other forms of academic cheating and falsification, is classed as ‘unfair practice’ and, if detected or suspected by an assessor, is to be formally reported to the Head of School (See the DIT General Assessment Regulations).

It is essential that at Masters level you understand clearly the need to submit your work giving full credit to that of others by referencing correctly. It is not acceptable ever to cut and paste content from any source without citing.

As part of Study Skills on the DIT web site, A guide to Academic Writing and Library Research is now available and you should review it.

A lecturer will not approach you about a suspicion of unfair practice unless they have a lot of evidence and are extremely concerned about it.
You should treat your lecturers with respect in this regard. You will be given an opportunity to explain.

Your 'friends' are not a reliable source of information on any issue of policy or
regulations in the Dublin Institute of Technology.
'My friend said it was ok' is not a valid excuse or will it result in a waiving of any penalty for an offence.

If you are unsure about what you can and can't do, it is your responsibility to consult the relevant lecturer for clarification.
It is not ok to consult your 'friends'. Your 'friends' will not be paying the penalty - you will.

If you are collaborating with other students on individual assignments you are leaving yourself open to an accusation.
Individual assignments are expected to exactly that - individual. Created by you alone.

The policy of this programme is to prosecute all cases of suspected unfair practice at a panel of enquiry. In general all cases put forward are upheld.
Penalties if found guilty include, but are not limited to, the following:

voiding of any marks for the module concerned - this may mean you will not be able to progress to dissertation as you expected, that on reassessment a maximum possible grade of 40 is available to you in the module and additional fees will be payable;

suspension from the Dublin Institute of Technology for a period with loss of fees paid;

expulsion from the DIT with loss of fees paid

The Dublin Institute of Technology policy is designed to protect the majority of students who would never contemplate unfair practice from the few who try to gain an unfair advantage.

It is important that all students should feel comfortable that they and their classmates are actually earning the grades they achieve.

Any cases of unfair practice on this programme will be reported to the Head of School with requestthat a panel of enquiry be established.

Databases Classes, week begining 2/11/2009

2009-11-02T16:49:00.002Z

Hi all,

Richard Lawlor will be doing Systems Analysis classes
during my Databases session this week (7:30-9:30 on
Monday 2/11/2009, 2:30-5:30 on Wednesday 4/11/2009)

Damian

Case Study Assignment - semester 1, 2009-10

2009-10-31T18:52:00.000Z

The Case Study assignment for semester 1 (2009-10) is now available in the module's shared folder on Google:

Case Studies Module Shared Folder - Assignment Semester 1

In the afternoon session of November 7, we will have an opportunity to discuss the whole assignment, assign groups and start on a portion of the work.

If you have any questions before then, please post them as comments to this blog post so everyone can share the information.

Looking forward to seeing everyone on November 7th.

Case Study Presentation - Nov 7, 2009

2009-10-31T17:08:00.006Z

Colin Mooney will be our guest speaker starting at 10am on November 7, 2009. The title of Colin's presentation is:

"Wikis in Knowledge Management: Enabling Effective Collaboration"

This presentation has relevance for both IT and KM areas. Colin implemented a KM-oriented project for his organisation's business within an IT framework.

Colin studied IT as an undergrad DIT, Kevin Street. He completed an MSc in Computing (Knowledge Management) in October 2009. He is currently studying for a second masters degree in Operations & Technology Management at Dublin City University.

Colin is a keen communicator on technology subject and maintains a lively blog at: Extacit.blogspot.com.

Evening Parking with Q-Park Car parks

2009-10-30T09:31:00.001Z

DIT have teamed up with QPark to offer a discount on evening time
parking rates for students.
A student evening rate of 2Euro inclusive for parking from 17.00 hrs
till 23.00 is available in all QPark locations across the city.

Q Park have provided each of the DIT colleges with a validator unit,
so students attending evening course can simply validated their car
parking ticket after they have finished class. On returning to the car
park they place their car park ticket into any of the pay stations and
the ticket will allow the special rate of 2.00 euro
For students attending DIT Cathal Brugha Street, DIT Mountjoy Square &
DIT Bolton Street the nearest Q Park car park for these students is
Clerys Car Park which is located on Marlborough St, Dublin 1.
For students attending DIT Aungier Street and DIT Kevin Street, the
nearest Q Park Car Park for these students is RCSI/SSG (St Stephen's
Green / Royal College of Surgeons car parks)
Car park locations are available at http://www.q-park.ie

The validator for Kevin Street in is the foyer of the Annex building beside the
canteen. The one for Aungier Street is beside the porters desk by the main entrance
to the building.

Urgent - Last Day for Registration + Fee Payment

2009-10-30T09:21:00.002Z

Today is the last day on which you can register and pay fees for Semester 1
without paying a late penalty.
Unless you have been in contact with me about your registration record in the
last week you will have to pay a late fee.

Please contact registrations asap to arrange payment.

Google Docs - downloading Powerpoint files

2009-10-24T18:13:00.002+01:00

There appears to be a glitch downloading Powerpoint files. It should be possible to go to "Open" and then Download"...

However, instead of fully opening, the word "Loading..." shows and nothing else happens:

If anyone's got a fix, please share.

For the time being, here's a workaround using a slightly different method:

Click to open the Powerpoint file you wish to download:

Click on "Menu" on the lower, right corner:

Click on the File name:

When the presentation comes up, click on "Actions" then "Download as PPT"

Like I say, if anyone's got a better method, please pass it along.

Case Studies - extra session - Nov 28

2009-10-23T17:26:00.003+01:00

We're including an extra date for a case study presentation to ensure full module content.

Date: November 28, 2009
Time: 10am
Speaker: Rory O'Connor
Topic: Software Process Improvement

There will also be an afternoon session on this date. Details of this will follow soon. Just so you're aware it'll be a full day.

As usual, all comments, observations, feedback, etc. are welcome.

Colman
cajmcmahon[at]gmail.com

Case Studies 2009-2010 - files online

2009-10-21T16:41:00.001+01:00

For ease and efficiency (of uploading), all the files, presentations, etc. relating to the Case Studies module for 2009-2010 will be hosted into the following Google Docs folder:

Case Studies Module Shared Folder

Pls. let me know if you run into any problems.

Colman McMahon
cajmcmahon[at]gmail.com

Programming & Patterns Tuesday Oct 20th 2009

2009-10-19T17:25:00.001+01:00

There will be no programming and patterns class on the
evening of Tuesday October 20th 2009.

2009/2010 Registrations - Important

2009-10-07T15:12:00.003+01:00

All students should now have completed registration.
If you haven't then you need to ensure that you register before
the end of this week.

From October 12th all communication will be to your DIT email only.

In addition no temporary accounts will be available for you to use
the computing resources.

It is therefore really important that you get registered immediately.

Case Studies in IT

2009-09-29T13:25:00.001+01:00

The Case Studies in IT module will be held on Sat Oct 17th.
The plan is to have sessions on Sat Nov 7th and Sat Dec 5th
There may also be a session in January.

OSSBarCamp Saturday Sept 19th 2009

2009-09-18T10:30:00.001+01:00

DIT will host the Open Source Bar Camp

again this year on Saturday Sept 18th 2009.

All are welcome to attend. The schedule is

available at

http://www.ossbarcamp.com/schedule/