Albaroud’s Weblog

Events:

- a new semester has begun. There are three main projecs I will be on. They are, CDLG & SSG improvements, an eclipse UI demo project, and UIGR project.

 - a new student has started in MDS. I spent some time getting him started in the department.

 - In additon to my projects, I am also taking CSC258.

SSG and CDLG:

- the following improvements need to be completed for CDLG. They are:
- Bar codes: The barcode outputting fails, because ** and ip/07 are added twice in the code. This has been repaired, but the multi – CD stream causes an error because of the hash table.

SSG and CDLG:

   -   more formal documentation
-   code minimization and optimization.
| -   error reporting must be better.
-   clean up single.jsp

Eclipse UI Project:

- the Eclipse team at IBM has a new experimental project that will be showcased at ECLIPSECON in late march. They are proposing a light weight version of eclipse – online. This is not software of a service, but a simple online RIA that allows one to make basic projects – it will emulate the core of eclispe without all the plug ins extras. I have been asked to do the UI for the moch up. If I do a good enough job, the moch up UI could very well be used for the final product .

UIGR:

- UIGR in MDS needs to be updated. We are considering mySQL for the database, and adopting ADOBE FLEX for a redesign of the UI.  However adobe supports coldfusion; so a switch to mySQL may be unecessary.