1. Searchlets Customer: Paul English Advisor: Prof. Ethan Bolker Team : Satish, Di, Quan www.searchlets.org

2.  Searchlets Overview  Features and Scopes  Technical Aspects of Searchlets  Architecture  Future of Searchlets Agenda

3. The concept Searchlets was originated by Paul English Searchlets allows users to have a dynamic web page of desired search results. http://www.searchlets.org What is Searchlets?

4. What is Blog?

5. Search + Publish Searchlets is generic Blogging

6. Scope Search and publish with optional scheduling Session state management for registered users Try the application without registering Publish over FTP

7. Scope ---------------- Search and publish with optional scheduling

10. Results Published!!

11. Scope Search and publish with optional scheduling Session state management for registered users Try the application without registering Publish over FTP

12. Scope ---------------- Session State Management Ticket for Chuanquan

13. Scope (contd) Search and publish with optional scheduling Session state management for registered users Try the application without registering Publish over FTP

14.  Extremely user friendly interface Google search engine API Advanced search & publish options Email notification Open source Features

15. Features --------------------- Friendly Interface

16. Extremely user friendly interface  Google search engine API  Advanced search options  Scheduling  Email notification  Open source Features (contd…)

17. Environment Why.NET? Features of C# & ASP.NET SQL Server Database Technical Aspects

18.  Pentium400 CPU, 128MB Memory, 20 GB Hard Disk  Unique IP Assigned Web server on a Windows 2000 Server machine HardWare SoftWare  IIS 5.0 configured Http Server SMTP for emails notification  SQL Server2000  Visual Studio.Net 2003 System Structure

19. Architecture Web Interface DataBase MonitorUtilities Register Log in Create Search Modify Search EmailClient FTPClient GoogleSearch

20. Development Methodology Iterative development process Simple design, small releases, Iterations Test-driven programming Coding standard Communication Customer feedback at every step Team meetings, e-mails XP way!!! Not strictly follow XP Documentation

21. Unit Test Test for basic functionalitiesIntegration Testing Test sets and bug tracking Functionality testing Compatibility testing Load/Stress Testing Usability Testing Testing Tests for good user interface design Server side Client side

22. Blog revolution truly underway!!!! Early 2004 check indicates between 2% to 7% internet users are bloggers (more than 2.6 million internet users) Indicates both readers and blog writers Future

23. Future?….

24. Future (contd…) Searchlets a step ahead from the rest of the blogging tools A web application that can schedule your blogging… an advantage Integrate with your browser or desktop

25. RSS feed Technology on the rise Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a lightweight XML format designed for sharing headlines and other Web content Searchlets can be a part of RSS feed in the future

26. Summary Visit us at www.searchlets.orgwww.searchlets.org Searchlets.sourceforge.net