vikpaw Posted February 12, 2014 Posted February 12, 2014 Bearing in mind, you can now have office documents through O365, and even hotmail lets you see them online and edit i think, they are pushing for cloud. I don't think people will have much choice soon. Isn't the latest flavour of office cloudy anyway? You've got to find a way to separate the generation of data to how it's then displayed and formatted. The XML reports out of lesson monitor are a good example of this. Much better than having to push them into Excel or Word via macros and CSV. It's a PITA to make your own XSL and do something different with the data, but at least it's possible. If the system is built to work with an open standard, then it's not going to cost the user to fit in with that, if they then choose to use a different in-house system, it should be relatively easy to port shouldn't it?
GREED Posted February 12, 2014 Posted February 12, 2014 Off topic but I love my introduced term of Cloudy... it is very British!
vikpaw Posted February 12, 2014 Posted February 12, 2014 Off topic but I love my introduced term of Cloudy... it is very British! Next you'll be saying you coined the term SaSO !
GREED Posted February 12, 2014 Posted February 12, 2014 Next you'll be saying you coined the term SaSO ! Shut your face, I did!! It was in the post directly after yours
matt40k Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Well it looks pretty official - they're calling it SIMS8, bit disappointed that the marketing guys didn't get involve, they always come up with some weird name. Job post is up: - Senior Developer SIMS8 - UK - England - Bedfordshire UK - England - Bedfordshire NA In other news appears Capita hosted uses VMWARE: - Hosted Services Engineer - Bedford - UK - England - Bedfordshire UK - England - Bedfordshire NA ...and the hope of SIMS MSI rests on whoever gets this job: - Software Engineer (.NET; C#, TFS) - UK - England - Bedfordshire UK - England - Bedfordshire NA Gotta love a bit of dumpster diving in the job ads 3
sparkeh Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 In other news appears Capita hosted uses VMWARE: Job spec calls for server 2003 knowledge. To quote a certain forum member on another thread: And so begins the long nightmare of running a soon to be unsupported OS ...and the hope of SIMS MSI rests on whoever gets this job Don't play with my dreams... 1
GREED Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Well it looks pretty official - they're calling it SIMS8, bit disappointed that the marketing guys didn't get involve, they always come up with some weird name. Sims XP Or knowing Capita... Sims Vista
LosOjos Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 ASP.NET! What's wrong with that? Seems completely logical to me - SIMS is based on .NET (presumably C# looking at that JD) so why rewrite everything in a different language? I just hope that they take the time to remove a lot of the inconsistencies we see across SIMS.NET during the update.
sparkeh Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Well it looks pretty official - they're calling it SIMS8, bit disappointed that the marketing guys didn't get involve, they always come up with some weird name. Should call it Sim Simma and have an advertising campaign with Beenie Man
localzuk Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Sharepoint isn't so bad, but Silverlight? No no no no no!
synaesthesia Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Didnt' MS already all but can Silverlight? No need for it this day and age.
LosOjos Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 (edited) Desirables : Sharepoint and Silverlight - yuck Oh dear, that is worrying. I can understand Sharepoint as a need to understand SLG (hopefully with a view to rewriting it without Sharepoint!) but Silverlight is a new low I seem to remember someone from Capita mentioning Silverlight, may have been in this thread... EDIT: it was this thread: As you can understand, I can't comment or disclose a great deal of technical information about our future product ranges, not least of which because technology is a very moveable feast, but our initial version approaching initial release in Northern Ireland do include Silverlight components but by the time it is on general release it will include no plugins or proprietary client technology and will work on an HTML compliant browser So long as they stick to that, it sounds promising Edited March 6, 2014 by LosOjos
zag Posted March 6, 2014 Author Posted March 6, 2014 Didnt' MS already all but can Silverlight? No need for it this day and age. Pretty much yes, the lead developer for WPF left years ago and its been basically treading water ever since. Silverlights main use these days is for DRM copy protection apps, its not used for much else.
sparkeh Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Wait, what? Silverlight... aren't we moving away from plugins? Even Windows RT blocks plugins right? Sheesh.
localzuk Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Silverlight hasn't had a major release for over 2 years! Even Netflix - one of the few major Silverlight users - has announced it is moving to HTML5 for its service. As I said... no no no no no!
LosOjos Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 Wait, what? Silverlight... aren't we moving away from plugins? Even Windows RT blocks plugins right? Sheesh. Silverlight hasn't had a major release for over 2 years! Even Netflix - one of the few major Silverlight users - has announced it is moving to HTML5 for its service. As I said... no no no no no! @PhillipHamlyn (Capita) stated earlier in this thread that although they're using Silverlight in the version in NI at the moment, there will be no plugin dependancy by the time of final release: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/131777-sims-8-new-version-post1128013.html#post1128013
sparkeh Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 @PhillipHamlyn (Capita) stated earlier in this thread that although they're using Silverlight in the version in NI at the moment, there will be no plugin dependancy by the time of final release: http://www.edugeek.net/forums/mis-systems/131777-sims-8-new-version-post1128013.html#post1128013 Mmm yeah I was typing while you posted that. Fingers crossed this sticks else there will be sad faces all round.
vikpaw Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 I hope the :troll:s don't learn how EduGeeks react to LIGHT
PhillipHamlyn Posted March 6, 2014 Posted March 6, 2014 vikpaw, As I said in an earlier post, we are going to convert all our existing Silverlight tech to HTML, thus the usefulness to us of candidates with Silverlight expertise. :-) 1
matt40k Posted March 7, 2014 Posted March 7, 2014 Should call it Sim Simma and have an advertising campaign with Beenie Man Kinda wanna see something like the old Windows ads: Ballmer sells windows1.0 - YouTube Sure they'll do wonders for Capita image too. Help destroy that image that they are the enemy, they are the "man" pushing the people down and we the the people must rebel, yer man. It's Friday, may the dots all connect. More serious note, be good to see a bit of public humor coming out of Capita HQ. Long gone are the days of ASSman and if they do go MSI, so will the Wise installer with it's unwise.exe uninstaller. Be nice if they can include a bit in the new version.
Popular Post PhillipHamlyn Posted March 7, 2014 Popular Post Posted March 7, 2014 Matt40k, Do you know why I called the SIMS7 main applicaiton Pulsar.exe ? Its because the internal name of the product was Super Star, Star being the internal product name of the previous edition. Thus a Pulsar is a Super Star. Geeky but my kind of in-joke. I'll try and inject some levity :-) 6
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