Yes well at least I got the demo working a little while afterwards the meeting. Didn't go as well as it should have, but I'm pretty close to being finished, should be completely done sometime next week. Hopefully.
Wanted to blog about the help I got from Hong Bing before I forget what he told me. Basically the data that the jstl buttons receive come from within the form declaration on the jsp page. If there is no data declared between the form tags then the button and subsequent java class will have no data to handle. This is leading to a single button implementation. Also of note is that the user emails will need some kind of remove functionality. There are still some bugs with the xml persistence mechanism and I want to be sure that its happening correctly before I try to break something else.
Friday, May 4, 2007
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Sleep Deprivation and H4's
Last night was the first time I slept in almost 4 days.
It's probably a good thing that I hadn't blogged during the interval since it would've been incoherent rambling (much like how I normally blog I guess).
Monday was the first H4 I had done and was with Hong Bing working on my TimerTask implementation. The TimerTask makes a call to its own generateEmailIfTriggered method, making a reference to whether the Alert associated with it is enabled or not. The unfortunate result of my fooling with the TimerTask was general email spam being sent out to myself, Philip, and possibly Aaron and Austen although they said that they were unaffected. Last night even though I had disabled all alerts for every registered user the server was still attempting to send emails to Philip. Good thing that Road Runner is registered on the RBL List as an untrusted source of spam. So I can't send emails to test the module from home, but I can see where it is attempting to send emails to. If you received any spam from me, I apologize.
The hardest thing I'm having to deal with now is the transfer of data from the CommandRequest classes, as any data entered into them seems to get wiped out every time the page gets reloaded. The solution to this I'm assuming is JDOM persistence which is the last thing I need to get done.
Today's H4 was with Robert Brewer and dealt with going through the Agile Web Development with Rails book and the tutorials found therein. It highlighted the Ruby's interfacing to a database, creating and validating data and formatting the data for display on the web. I really hope I have some time in the near future to begin programming Rails although the sense that so many things are hidden in the implementations is slightly unnerving. I think its the same with any new programming language you encounter since Java often does the same thing.
This friday is the final deadline for the project and I'll be visiting Referentia in the morning. I still need to write up a user and administrator guide tonight. So its time to make the last burst for the finish line.
It's probably a good thing that I hadn't blogged during the interval since it would've been incoherent rambling (much like how I normally blog I guess).
Monday was the first H4 I had done and was with Hong Bing working on my TimerTask implementation. The TimerTask makes a call to its own generateEmailIfTriggered method, making a reference to whether the Alert associated with it is enabled or not. The unfortunate result of my fooling with the TimerTask was general email spam being sent out to myself, Philip, and possibly Aaron and Austen although they said that they were unaffected. Last night even though I had disabled all alerts for every registered user the server was still attempting to send emails to Philip. Good thing that Road Runner is registered on the RBL List as an untrusted source of spam. So I can't send emails to test the module from home, but I can see where it is attempting to send emails to. If you received any spam from me, I apologize.
The hardest thing I'm having to deal with now is the transfer of data from the CommandRequest classes, as any data entered into them seems to get wiped out every time the page gets reloaded. The solution to this I'm assuming is JDOM persistence which is the last thing I need to get done.
Today's H4 was with Robert Brewer and dealt with going through the Agile Web Development with Rails book and the tutorials found therein. It highlighted the Ruby's interfacing to a database, creating and validating data and formatting the data for display on the web. I really hope I have some time in the near future to begin programming Rails although the sense that so many things are hidden in the implementations is slightly unnerving. I think its the same with any new programming language you encounter since Java often does the same thing.
This friday is the final deadline for the project and I'll be visiting Referentia in the morning. I still need to write up a user and administrator guide tonight. So its time to make the last burst for the finish line.
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