Effecting positive change in the world feels good
TritonLink now has a Class Planner (beta). I’d link to it, but you need to be a UCSD student to see it (which is silly).
Messrs. Dye and Pajak have done a very good job. It feels a lot like TritonSchedule (which makes me feel really validated, because a pair of professional UI designers made the same decisions I did), with some nice improvements. They did a very good job on the lecture-discussion selection flow, and the department selection is just glorious. They fixed the grid width in pixels, which makes the positioning a lot easier. It’s all ajax, with almost no latency (on campus wireless); it’s very smooth and fluid. I don’t like that the lecture doesn’t immediately appear when you click it, but so far that’s my only complaint.
When I don’t have a CSE141 lab and an EAP application that need to be done urgently, I’m going to go under the hood and look at their JS code and ajax transfers.
On the whole, this is a Good Thing. My hat is off to ACT today.