Icebreaker::Worklog - Revision history

Saoshyant at 23:04, 3 February 2008

2008-02-03T23:04:41Z

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	'''Week 1 May 28-June 4'''<br>		'''Week 1 May 28-June 4'''<br>
	Spent time reading.<br>		Spent time reading.<br>
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	'''August 14'''<br>		'''August 14'''<br>
	I got the laptop back and started up work again. I want to switch from TurboGears to PyGTK. TurboGears sucks. I looked into Pylons and didnt feel like messing with that sort of thing again. If I want a Web interface at a later time, I will find a better way of doing it, probably writing my own self-contained program.		I got the laptop back and started up work again. I want to switch from TurboGears to PyGTK. TurboGears sucks. I looked into Pylons and didnt feel like messing with that sort of thing again. If I want a Web interface at a later time, I will find a better way of doing it, probably writing my own self-contained program.
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Nickmudd at 19:45, 14 August 2007

2007-08-14T19:45:25Z

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	I also cracked the screen on my laptop, my BRAND NEW laptop, and had to send it in for repair. I've invested in a nice laptop case for it and I hope for that to never happen again. I was off of the internet completely for almost 2.5 weeks. Luckily it was under warranty but I lost a lot of time.		I also cracked the screen on my laptop, my BRAND NEW laptop, and had to send it in for repair. I've invested in a nice laptop case for it and I hope for that to never happen again. I was off of the internet completely for almost 2.5 weeks. Luckily it was under warranty but I lost a lot of time.
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		+	'''August 14'''<br>
		+	I got the laptop back and started up work again. I want to switch from TurboGears to PyGTK. TurboGears sucks. I looked into Pylons and didnt feel like messing with that sort of thing again. If I want a Web interface at a later time, I will find a better way of doing it, probably writing my own self-contained program.

Nickmudd at 19:41, 14 August 2007

2007-08-14T19:41:25Z

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	'''July 19-24'''<br>		'''July 19-24'''<br>
	Fried computer, spent time reading and waiting on new computer to get here.<br>		Fried computer, spent time reading and waiting on new computer to get here.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 25-29'''<br>
		+	Installed Ubuntu on new computer, wrestled with TurboGears, gave up on TurboGears, moved on to the backend.
		+	I also cracked the screen on my laptop, my BRAND NEW laptop, and had to send it in for repair. I've invested in a nice laptop case for it and I hope for that to never happen again. I was off of the internet completely for almost 2.5 weeks. Luckily it was under warranty but I lost a lot of time.
		+	----

Nickmudd at 09:14, 25 July 2007

2007-07-25T09:14:53Z

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	'''July 18'''<br>		'''July 18'''<br>
	Committed new version of icebreaker.py.<br>		Committed new version of icebreaker.py.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 19-24'''<br>
		+	Fried computer, spent time reading and waiting on new computer to get here.<br>

Nickmudd at 15:42, 18 July 2007

2007-07-18T15:42:49Z

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	'''July 16-17'''<br>		'''July 16-17'''<br>
	Worked on icebreaker.py, asked around on #turbogears for some help with forms. Power went out from 8am until after midnight so I got nothing done on the 17th.<br>		Worked on icebreaker.py, asked around on #turbogears for some help with forms. Power went out from 8am until after midnight so I got nothing done on the 17th.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 18'''<br>
		+	Committed new version of icebreaker.py.<br>

Nickmudd at 15:41, 18 July 2007

2007-07-18T15:41:38Z

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	'''July 14-15'''<br>		'''July 14-15'''<br>
	Edited icebreaker.py to make stop times work. Moved some stuff around, worked out some logical stuff on paper.<br>		Edited icebreaker.py to make stop times work. Moved some stuff around, worked out some logical stuff on paper.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 16-17'''<br>
		+	Worked on icebreaker.py, asked around on #turbogears for some help with forms. Power went out from 8am until after midnight so I got nothing done on the 17th.<br>

Nickmudd at 01:08, 16 July 2007

2007-07-16T01:08:31Z

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	Added views to TurboGears app.<br>		Added views to TurboGears app.<br>
	Added sample metadata to database.<br>		Added sample metadata to database.<br>
-	Reading more in ''Rapid Web Applications with ~~Turbogears~~'' to figure out how to get data from forms and stuff.<br>	+	Reading more in ''Rapid Web Applications with TurboGears'' to figure out how to get data from forms and stuff.<br>
	----		----
	'''June 25-27'''<br>		'''June 25-27'''<br>
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	'''June 28'''<br>		'''June 28'''<br>
-	Select-shuttle ~~isnt~~ working, trying to find documentation, help on #turbogears.<br>	+	Select-shuttle isn't working, trying to find documentation, help on #turbogears.<br>
	----		----
	'''June 29'''<br>		'''June 29'''<br>
	Added README file.<br>		Added README file.<br>
-	Did some work in controllers.py to see if that jump starts the form, it ~~doesnt~~.<br>	+	Did some work in controllers.py to see if that jump starts the form, it doesn't.<br>
-	Took a look in the toolbox and ~~specicifically~~ Select-shuttle's widgets.py and found a few clues, updated controllers.py and create.kid.<br>	+	Took a look in the toolbox and specifically Select-shuttle's widgets.py and found a few clues, updated controllers.py and create.kid.<br>
	create.kid was all wrong, all it needed was a few lines of code. controllers.py needed the variables I supplied to be passed to a select-shuttle module and then assigned to a new object i called create.<br>		create.kid was all wrong, all it needed was a few lines of code. controllers.py needed the variables I supplied to be passed to a select-shuttle module and then assigned to a new object i called create.<br>
	Putting that into controllers.py did not work, I got the error "name 'create' is not defined." I decided to define it in create.kid also, the form displayed but did not jump values. I am not sure what difference that made.<br>		Putting that into controllers.py did not work, I got the error "name 'create' is not defined." I decided to define it in create.kid also, the form displayed but did not jump values. I am not sure what difference that made.<br>
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	'''July 4'''<br>		'''July 4'''<br>
-	Happy Independence Day, I celebrated by drinking a few pints of some tasty British ales. MMMMMMMMMMM Nothing like ~~cepebrating~~ our independence from the British than drinking British beer.<br>	+	Happy Independence Day, I celebrated by drinking a few pints of some tasty British ales. MMMMMMMMMMM Nothing like celebrating our independence from the British than drinking British beer.<br>
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	'''July 5'''<br>		'''July 5'''<br>
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	'''July 12-13'''<br>		'''July 12-13'''<br>
-	Realized that I ~~didnt~~ put support in icebreaker.py for stopping a playlist. For example, if I schedule a playlist to run from 7pm to 9pm it should ~~swithc~~ off of the list onto shuffle mode or to another list.Doing a little re-working to get it the way it should work.<br>	+	Realized that I didn't put support in icebreaker.py for stopping a playlist. For example, if I schedule a playlist to run from 7pm to 9pm it should switch off of the list onto shuffle mode or to another list.Doing a little re-working to get it the way it should work.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 14-15'''<br>
		+	Edited icebreaker.py to make stop times work. Moved some stuff around, worked out some logical stuff on paper.<br>

Nickmudd at 09:18, 14 July 2007

2007-07-14T09:18:18Z

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	Work on the backend.<br>		Work on the backend.<br>
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-	'''July 9-10'''<br>	+	'''July 9-11'''<br>
	Found a bit of code on how to daemonize. Cannibalizing it and my old script to make a new one.<br>		Found a bit of code on how to daemonize. Cannibalizing it and my old script to make a new one.<br>
	Added new variables to config.py.<br>		Added new variables to config.py.<br>
	Removed python code block from create.kid, making it the correct way of handling things.<br>		Removed python code block from create.kid, making it the correct way of handling things.<br>
	If I cant get Select-shuttle going Im just gonna write my own forms by hand and use some ajax to do the job, its more code, but at least users wont have to download and install Select-shuttle as a dependency.<br>		If I cant get Select-shuttle going Im just gonna write my own forms by hand and use some ajax to do the job, its more code, but at least users wont have to download and install Select-shuttle as a dependency.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 12-13'''<br>
		+	Realized that I didnt put support in icebreaker.py for stopping a playlist. For example, if I schedule a playlist to run from 7pm to 9pm it should swithc off of the list onto shuffle mode or to another list.Doing a little re-working to get it the way it should work.<br>

Nickmudd at 12:25, 10 July 2007

2007-07-10T12:25:46Z

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	Some more reading and trying to figure out forms.<br>		Some more reading and trying to figure out forms.<br>
	I'm looking at Select-Shuttle TurboGears widget for picking tracks from the database, but then i still have to make filtering the data work. Any suggestions?<br>		I'm looking at Select-Shuttle TurboGears widget for picking tracks from the database, but then i still have to make filtering the data work. Any suggestions?<br>
		+	----
		+	'''June 28'''<br>
		+	Select-shuttle isnt working, trying to find documentation, help on #turbogears.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''June 29'''<br>
		+	Added README file.<br>
		+	Did some work in controllers.py to see if that jump starts the form, it doesnt.<br>
		+	Took a look in the toolbox and specicifically Select-shuttle's widgets.py and found a few clues, updated controllers.py and create.kid.<br>
		+	create.kid was all wrong, all it needed was a few lines of code. controllers.py needed the variables I supplied to be passed to a select-shuttle module and then assigned to a new object i called create.<br>
		+	Putting that into controllers.py did not work, I got the error "name 'create' is not defined." I decided to define it in create.kid also, the form displayed but did not jump values. I am not sure what difference that made.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''June 30-July 1'''<br>
		+	I searched online to find the cause of the values not switching lists, I decided it must be related to javascript, but since i know nothing of javascript i have no idea what the problem is.<br>
		+	I still searched to figure out why create wont get defined in controllers.py. Google code search didnt get me any examples, and i found no tutorials and only an antiquated explanation of its function on a mailing list.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 2-3'''<br>
		+	Sent an email to Conrad asking for some help. Asked around in #turbogears for help, got no response. Repeated search for documentation and the like.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 4'''<br>
		+	Happy Independence Day, I celebrated by drinking a few pints of some tasty British ales. MMMMMMMMMMM Nothing like cepebrating our independence from the British than drinking British beer.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 5'''<br>
		+	The usual searching, sent an email to the author of Select-Shuttle and as of 7-10 have no response.
		+	----
		+	'''July 6'''<br>
		+	Decided to lay off searching for a while to get real work done, started the backend.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 7'''<br>
		+	Read Chapter 12 "Time Operations" and Chapter 13 "Controlling Execution" in ''Python In a Nutshell'' to see how to handle the date/time stuff in the backend and see if i could find out how to make it a daemon.
		+	----
		+	'''July 8'''<br>
		+	Heard back from Conrad.<br>
		+	Made a few minor changes to create.kid<br>
		+	Work on the backend.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''July 9-10'''<br>
		+	Found a bit of code on how to daemonize. Cannibalizing it and my old script to make a new one.<br>
		+	Added new variables to config.py.<br>
		+	Removed python code block from create.kid, making it the correct way of handling things.<br>
		+	If I cant get Select-shuttle going Im just gonna write my own forms by hand and use some ajax to do the job, its more code, but at least users wont have to download and install Select-shuttle as a dependency.<br>

Nickmudd at 00:02, 28 June 2007

2007-06-28T00:02:34Z

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	Added sample metadata to database.<br>		Added sample metadata to database.<br>
	Reading more in ''Rapid Web Applications with Turbogears'' to figure out how to get data from forms and stuff.<br>		Reading more in ''Rapid Web Applications with Turbogears'' to figure out how to get data from forms and stuff.<br>
		+	----
		+	'''June 25-27'''<br>
		+	Some more reading and trying to figure out forms.<br>
		+	I'm looking at Select-Shuttle TurboGears widget for picking tracks from the database, but then i still have to make filtering the data work. Any suggestions?<br>