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 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 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.
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April 27, 2005
Done!
Well, spent today putting the finishing touches on the project that I've been working on. Finally have some working code that does something close to what it should be doing... Now all thats left is to do some fine grained debugging, and wait. I guess I should write the specification for the project. That is theoretically the next step...
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