Albaroud’s Weblog

Week of September 21st, 2007:

Overview:

This week, deadlines were looming. CDLG and SSG must be launched, October 1st in proper condition. Because of this, I had to work a lot of overtime, and additionally, come in and work on a Sunday. There was an initial shock, realizing the amount of work that to be done. It has been averted now, however.

Events:
- worked with Kathy, Jason Silzer to produce splash screens. Fixed a character formatting problem: save all files in DOS ASCII mode, to avoid problems.
- Had many meetings on Tuesday; realized the amount of work that needed to be done; learned that CDLG tasks needed to be done also.
-Started Testing SSG, wednesday -> friday

Project Notes:

- SSG:
- corrected character formatting with DOS ASCII saves.
- implented front end text; Julie and Leslie wrote it; i posted it.
- wrote the shortName() function: this names the splash screens (all splash screens used to be named “testtemplate.xxx”).
- solved the session problem (the splash screens from previous inputs were saved in the zip files of new inputs). However, now sessions are shared amonst users; a security problem has occured.
- edited the .xml file; for greater usability
- CDLG:
- planned with Steve Murphy, produced a task list with Julie.
- Steve finished the templates needed

Mistakes:
- did not get over shock quickly enough
- some procrastination noted.
- should think ahead more.

This was a fairly short week, with Labor day and an IBM Floater day consecutively. Only worked wednesday -> friday this week.

Events:
- meetings about SSG Brand mark Alightment;
- meeting with Eliane regarding EBC new website layout
- meeting wtih Julie regarding general SSG progress (missed XX)
- Interview with Bob Pryslak (co-op manager)
- Farewell lunch for Terry Xu
- was given control of server administration/health checks by Ian; met the server team upstairs.

Project Notes:
- SSG:
- Jason Silzer tried to test the SSG; it was found that the XML feedback was broken; ssg did not add an internal DTD to the outputted XML file. Also, control characters (\u00A & \u000D) caused weird spacing/justification in corel text boxes. The following code fix was used:
line = line.replaceAll(“\n | \r”, “\u0020″);
to alleviate this problem.
- as of now, I am still trying to get the select list to poplulate on the SSG single.jsp page.

- EBC website:
- Eliane reviewed the guidelines for the EBC website
- the website must look as close as possible to the personalized ‘tabs’ on the w3 home website.

- Mistakes:
- lack of sleep reduced productivity
- I missed a weekly meeting (Julie’s).