Day 118
Friday August 11th 2006 ..
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@LNECHardly get any sleep last night! I don’t know if it was the heat, but hell, what a crappy night…
08:40
Chronicles of FAN AI!
Our AC – well, not quite an AC, but rather a late century FAN – has a will of it’s own.
It understands that the constant noise can be bothersome and so, it kinda shifts around the speeds all by itself.
The actual problem is that it’s 8:40am and 26ºC… and the fan decided not to work at all!
I’ve got a word on my mind right now: SWEAT!
11:35
FAN AI is no more!
We have identified the problem: too many parts.
Solution: Removed a few.
Conclusion: AI module must have been removed, as now the fan is but an ordinary appliance.
Day (116) 117
Thursday August 10th 2006 ..
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@LNECYesterday was boring as hell… DS changes, and more DS changes. I made some progress though, and I may have just hammered down the basics for what’s wanted here – and when I say “hammered”, I mean it, as I’m not making modular changes… I’m editing straight on the source to get things rolling, if possible, for the sake of “prototype”. Anyway, any “rolling” it’s still a couple of days ahead.
When I got home yesterday, I tilted. I couldn’t concentrate, not even to practice my daily drumming… I decided someone needed to pay with their lifes how I was feeling (’cuz I’ma bad mudda)… and HL2 gave me just that! Hurray for shotguns and rocket launchers!
09:30
PHP, Isco and Graphviz, for the day.
11:00
Since I need some way do change the nodes colors, and since image_GraphViz didn’t have an option do change a node property, I added this to the tool:
function changeColor($name, $color)
{
if (isset($this -> graph['nodes']['default'][$name]))
{
$attr = $this -> graph['nodes']['default'][$name];
$color_array = array('color' => $color);
$this -> graph['nodes']['default'][$name] = array_merge($attr, $color_array);
}
else
return FALSE;
}
17:15
I’m having a little trouble reloading a php page with new parameters… Something just blows up with a pl_query, I don’t get it!
Day 115
Tuesday August 08th 2006 ..
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@LNEC08:06
What’s wrong with the weather!? It’s misty and fresh outside… here in the office is damn hot!
08:25
Wow… no updates for Dapper today!!! Did the world stop?
17:00
It’s almost time to go. The day went ok, with a highlight when I managed to hide a field at will on the DS display, depending on the type. Yes, two days to change all that needed to be changed so that a lousy field could disappear. Anyway, I’m on the right track…
The next step is to specify which documents need which attributes – which I need to make up, because LAC says no one will reply if I enquire the departments on this. I kind of expected that, but not comming out of LAC’s mouth!
As I get it, no one cares for the good of the group if it envolves getting their ass up the chair. Of course they welcome everything when it’s ready.
Day (106 – ) 114
Monday August 07th 2006 ..
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@LNECI guess I’m back on blogging… and no, I haven’t been on vacation, as you can see by the day-count on the title.
I’ve been very busy, and out of mind to blog at all. Not that there has been a great deal of things to blog about, ’cause there hasn’t, in work-life anyway. All the things – my things – are either related to the time&brain consuming DSpace tasks at hand, or to the equally exausting Masters’ stuff, which is begining to look like something, even though a very unpolished “something”.
Anyway…
08:04
After paying more attention to the DSpace DB, I realised that there is no focus at all to the kind of document – the type – one submits to the repository. It is just another attribute of the document. This means that no matter what the type of your document is, you allways get the same fields to fill in the submition forms, although you might not fill a few, if you feel they don’t apply. This is highly NOT wanted here at LNEC as “It may confuse people, since they might not know what to fill and what not to!”. And it’s really true! They are confused… but not because the interface is obnoxious, but rather because people don’t bother to try and use it, and instead ask you questions like “Why is the name of my department in lowercase, and the other one is capitalized?”. One thought comes to mind at times like this: “There are no stupid questions, only stupid people!”
The bottom line is that I have to change a considerable portion of the repository so that the fields are completely dependent of the type, making a type oriented submition rather that bitstream oriented one.