May 27, 2005
Happy Holiday
Well, made some good progress for a holiday weekend friday. Managed to finish most of the Requirements Analysis for the new Housing Application. I think now the UML will be a little better and easier to accomplish without changing every time I turn around... This was a step that I honestly forgot about and would have saved me some time if I had gone through with it earlier. Would have also made writing the spec that I have now a little easier. Now I have to go back and make the speck a little better by incorporating the new ideas that arose from the Analysis. By thursday I hope to have things up to the point of having proper UML Class, Use Case/Activitiy, and Sequence Diagrams ready for presentation. Have a good Memorial Day weekend.!!!
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May 26, 2005
Cool!
Well, I spent most of today getting DB Pool Testing working... Now we have a way to en-masse test the database pool to see if we can track down the problems that we have been having with the pool... Maybe next week we can put it to good use.
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May 24, 2005
Well, well, well...
As you can tell, I occasionally have a hard time keeping weblogs (or any type of log) up to date. Its been a while since my last entry... I've managed to make some progress though, so I hope it doesn't look like I've just been sluffing off. The spec for the new Housing Application is coming along slowly, but surely. Running into the fact that people like to take vacations during this time of year. Thus meetings are not as close together as we'd like. Its comming together though. I've re-worked a few of the steps I had been going through. Hopefully these changes will make my life a little easier both during this design stage and future implementation stages.
Most of the changes that I've made have been centered around thinking more about the actual design. Rather than just taking what we had come up with in meetings and what is in my head and trying to turn it into UML, I'm trying to actually lay out the requirements and go through the proper Requirements Analysis stage of development. This should, as I said, create much less of a headache for me later.
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May 13, 2005
Fun Day!!!
Well, spent a little time today working on the UML diagrams for th project. Decided to start over with from scratch with a Use Case Diagram, but then moved on to a Class Diagram.
The rest of the day was spent moving to our new office in Hotz. Much bigger and I actually have a REAL desk! This new office is a big step up... I actually have space to spread out! Next I bring in the laptop!!!
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May 12, 2005
I hate slow!
Today was a pretty slow day for me. Spent most of it playing around with UML CASE tools and reading up on JUnit & JMeter. Nothing really tangable though in terms of results. Did play more with MagicDraw. Didn't really like it though... For one, it didn't integrate into the version of NetBeans that we are using. Second, it had a weird interface that was a little more difficult to understand. At the end of the day I ended up going back to testing Visual Paradigm UML since its interface is easy and quick to use.
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May 11, 2005
UML haywire
Well, spent the last few days looking more into UML tools that are available to be used for development here at Housing. I've determined that the program I had liked from the get-go, Visual Paradigm's SDE for NetBeans, is not quite as good as I thought. For some reason the evaluation version that I'm running won't generate all of the java class files for the classes you create in UML... It only generates one of them. Yes, it does create the files, but theyre empty and you don't have a way of changing that. I've been unable to figure out a way around this problem, so I've moved on to testing other options. For the most part though the UML creation capibility of VP-UML is quite nice... Only wish I could test it fully!
The next contender is MagicDraw UML. This too boasts a nice interface to NB, but I wasn't that impressed with it initially. Maybe I'll spend some more time on it tonight and tomorrow. I also need to work on testing. I tried to spend some time today looking at JUnit and JMeter. Will read more tonight. The next meeting is supposed to be scheduled for some time next week. Haven't heard yet on details.
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May 06, 2005
UML is good!
Well, today I managed to map out half of the classes that I'm using in the project I'm working on. This will make programming a little easier. UML makes things a lot easier to understand. I'll keep working on the UML so that I eventually get activity charts and actor relationships in order. But that will wait till next week.
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May 05, 2005
Day full of learning
Well, I managed to learn a lot about Tomcat configuration and XML parsing today. I spent the morning trying to figure out how to do XML parsing. Made some progress towards having a parser that read an XML file and populated an object with its information. Well...
Then I went to lunch... On the way back Eric informed/reminded me that the functionality that I was attempting to create already existed in Tomcat/Servlets natively. The Servlet web.xml files and the Server wide web.xml files have the capibility of adding parameters to them that can be seen within the scope of the servlet. Well, silly as I felt, I spent the rest of the afternoon learning about where and how they were placed in the web.xml files, and by the end of the day I was pulling setup information from those files, allowing me to change what database I pointed to with just the re-load of the servlet (stop and start that is). So I'm working on re-writing the current application to use this functionality. This rendition will be slightly slower going since I don't yet know all of the details for the finished utility.
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May 04, 2005
Progress....
Well... Finally had a meeting with the assignment staff to work out some of the details of the application. We got through the conditions for when someone needed to make a payment and when to display which housing periods. Also brought up the various other "error" situations where we are going to have to do more work.
After the meeting I managed to get a revised spec out to everyone. Just waiting on another meeting now.
Posted by nbingha at 04:29 PM | Comments (0)
Whew!!!
Well, I finally got this up and running in a location where it is easily accessable by more than just myself. Oh... Didn't quite "like" the default template so I hoped over to MovableStyle and found one that was a little more like my style.
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