User:Sdowne/summer 2010 worklog may

Summer 2010 Worklog JS Projects 2010

Monday May 3

• Orientation
• Started setting up workspace

Tuesday May 4

• Installed Fedora
• Finished setting up workstation
• installed git, linked to existing github
• Set up irc (irssi + screen)
• Tried to sort out pjs pixelHack and tic 601, 601 was reviewed by andor and needs work
• pixelHack was solved and finished later that night
• Finishing 601 tomorrow morning

Wednesday May 5

• Finished tic 601, it's up for review
• Built Firefox on Fedora
• Both tic 601 and pixelhack are in 0.9
• Reviewed Andor's 556 ticket which is also in.
• fought with git

Thursday May 6

• Tried to update my Fedora to nvidia drivers, and pretty much broke it, reinstalled, tried once more, still no luck, installed ubuntu and stopped there, I will set it up later.
• Worked on breaking examples in processing.js. Fixed the Neighborhood example, which required an overhaul of static variables and functions. Actually required more work than was expected. Here is the ticket
• Still have a bunch others that need fixing

Friday May 7

• Fixed two more of the examples from last night, first and second
• Working on a third error that has to do with inheritance as well. When a method is created in a super class, and references another variable inside the same super class, it will always reference the same method, even if it's being called by a sub class. Nothing but dead ends so far.
• Did end up fixing the one talked above, ended up being ticket 637

Sat May 8, Sun May 9

• Built firefox remotly form home.
• Fixed a bug with Inheritance, and filed another to be fixed at a later date.

Monday May 10

• Had a phone conference about the js video library with Brett and Mark.
• Started on removing with.
• Did some testing for release 0.9.

Tuesday May 11

• Continued with removing with.
• What I did was broke the processing.js down to the parser, ArrayList, and the constuctor. Got that working, and updated it.

Wednesday May 12

• Sick, but continued with removing with at home, started working on it in a large scale.

Thursday May 13

• Still sick, continued with removing with had some examples running, along with most tests passing.

Friday May 14

• Back to work as normal.
• The solution to removing with was giving me problems, and desided to move all Processing functions into the Processing constructor.
• Solved another serious issue using getters and setters, this will also be helpful later to fix class parsing, probably be first thing I do for 0.9.3, and it shouldn't be too hard, a day at most with what I now know inside and outside the parser.

Sat May 15

• Got all tests passing for removing with cept an issue with .pde unit tests, and many examples, including 3D examples, and substrate were tested and working.
• Blogged on rewriting Processing.js.

Sun May 16

• Everything is now passing for removing with, peer review has been requested.
• I had to move the Processing.lib declaration back out of the constructor, it was being called from tests, without a new Processing object being created for test-harness-lib.js, line 4. This fixed the unit test problems.
• I am now pretty well versed in the flow of processing.js, they way it's called, what happens first, why, etc and learning more every day.