Yesterday some people and I came up with the idea of “ShuffleFlow” for the name of the workflow project… It’s still in the works.
But, this time, I figured I’d write up what I want done by Christmas. Maybe a few use cases?
Use case #1: Software Development Company
Most software development teams use some mechanism to track bugs. However, in my experience the bug tracking system lends no intuition as to how bugs are fixed.
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Showcase is on wednesday! Coming up, to say the least.
One of the projects that we’re showing off is the cluster fractal viewer. So far, I’ve written the client. It’ll work on mobile devices (read: iPad), so all hopes of productivity on Wednesday will be lost to me scrolling around the mandelbrot set. I guess we all have to make our sacrifices.
Another project that we’re doing is the matrix and it’s son, MiniMatrix.
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Is it just me, or do people not see photography as a valid hobby?
Here’s a picture of my cats being very supportive of my homework:
Turns out people look at you funny when they ask what you’re doing and you say “… I’m taking pictures of my cats.”
Anyway, on to technology…
Comet! It’s new! It’s improved! Long polling is awesome! And Apache really sucks at it!
Luckily, though, the workflow project isn’t using Apache.
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So today I remembered that my iPad has a web browser on it. Then I remembered that my blog is on the Internet. See the connection?
Anyway, on to the Advanced Computer Programming class. I’m pretty close to completion of some code that resembles something that could qualify as a beta. Today in class I finally tied the JS user interface to resemble what the backend database stored. It even accurately portrays which tasks belong to which workitems!
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Today, I get to announce that I have finally gotten jsPlumb to work, and it will link together divs, which I can drag around.
I also get to whine about my lack of creativity in naming my blog post.
And, with JS TouchPunch, it works on my iPad too!
If there’s any private data in the above screenshot, please don’t use it against me in court or anything.
Anyway, excitement aside, the next step will be to have the client generate the divs based on what the server thinks the divs should be.
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So, I’m going to switch to jQuery on Workflow for the foreseeable future. Other than that, no progress has been made on workflow…
However, progress is happening on the cluster. Today I managed to make it boot a custom kernel, booting with a NFS drive as the rootfs.
At the moment, I’m debating how to track the IPs that the nodes are assigned.
Also, check out http://stereopsis.com/flux/. It changes your display’s white point to account for the room’s natural lighting.
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While this whole preset “Advanced Computer Programming #” post naming scheme removes one more thing from my mind, it is a little bit constricting. So I’m breaking from that scheme to celebrate that Conquest-CLI is now public. It’s the infamous Konquest game, written for the command line. Hopefully it’ll be a nice game for server admins everywhere.
Anyway, check it out at https://github.com/lkolbly/conquest-cli.
Other than that, I haven’t done much this week.
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Woah, turns out I need to write a blog post for this week. Here goes.
Code review this week - looks like I should probably start writing good code. Along that note I setup a git account, so maybe I’ll be able to keep track of code. We’ve passed the 500 line mark, so this is starting to become a project of noticeable size.
One feature that mi Padre keeps on whining about is server push, so that’ll be one feature I implement.
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This is just a quick update on the Workflow project, since I’m require by applicable law and regulation to post twice by midnight tonight. Not that that’s bad, or I’m complaining or anything - but it’s still a fact none the less.
So, I’m here to report that in the past five minutes I have thought about the problem.
Five minutes ago I forgot to mention that I’ve written part of a basic skeleton of the software.
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Well, this is it. My first computer science class. I may have mentioned something before about a workflow management program. This is my project.
The theory is pretty simple. There simply are no highly customizable workflow management programs. Many are like Trello, which can be customized, but lacks a certain extensibility and scalability. I envision my project being used by universities, or medical labs, or large software companies. People who need scale.
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