Tourism Information Portal enters final sprint

The Tourism Information Portal, that New Media Labs is building in partnership with Smartguide, is entering the final sprint (SCRUM and 3 week sprints being our chosen methodology).  The Tourism Information Portal is a Google Earth-based mashup content management system. The Tourism Information Portal  exposes not only Youtube videos and Flickr photos of the major tourist attractions in South Africa, but also audio and video content that is owned and managed by Smartguide.

New Media Labs can’t wait to launch this one - the Tourism Information Portal is like nothing South Africa has ever seen before.  NML has also become a 20% shareholder in Smartguide.

Signoff of the largest Silverlight implementation in Africa.

New Media Labs has received signoff of development and testing of custom Niche Social Network for a leading international private bank. The development was completed in four, three week SCRUM sprints with a development team of four. Given the scale of this project, and the technical complexity of tieing into the banking backend this was an amazing achievement.

Microsoft is now working in collaboration with New Media Labs to generate a case study out of this project. The project makes a good case study for Microsoft’s new Rich Internet Application technology known as Silverlight. This project is being billed as the largest Silverlight implementation in Africa.

Domain Driven Design was utilised extensively to model the specific banking domain. The Service Layer Data Contract and Service Contract models were modeled using the web service software factory.

The site has now moved into user acceptance phase and should be launched shortly.