Ystallonne Weekly log 20132

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Logs for 20132

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Week of July 15^th

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	Bugs with jQuery were fixed, and code was refined. Software installations.	[ Link]
Tuesday	BlackBerry Jam Camp.	[ Link]
Wednesday	BlackBerry Jam Camp.	[ Link]
Thursday	Navigation is properly working with feedback incorporated. Table style improved.	[ Link]
Friday	Styling items in the table component.	[ Link]

Week of July 8^th

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	Designing checkbox and refining other designed components using HTML5 and CSS3.	[ Link]
Tuesday	Cleaning and improving the generated HTML5 and CSS3 code.	[ Link]
Wednesday	Making designed components accessible using HTML5 and CSS3.	[ Link]
Thursday	Styling designed table component and creating icons and additional elements for it using HTML5 and CSS3 regarding the designed interface and layout.	[ Link]
Friday	Styling items in the table component. New work environment setup.	[ Link]

Week of July 1^st

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	- Canada's Day -	[ Link]
Tuesday	Coding the layout using HTML5 and CSS3 regarding the designed interface.	[ Link]
Wednesday	Designing components using HTML5 and CSS3 regarding the designed interface and layout.	[ Link]
Thursday	Designing a selectbox component using HTML5 and CSS3 regarding the designed interface and layout.	[ Link]
Friday	Refining the design of the table component regarding the designed interface and layout.	[ Link]

Week of June 24^th

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	Started designing a layout for the interface.	[ Link]
Tuesday	Improvements on the interface design.	[ Link]
Wednesday	Components that comprise the GUI were designed.	[ Link]
Thursday	A table component was designed matching the interface design, and some minor changes were made.	[ Link]
Friday	Started coding the interface using HTML5 and CSS3 regarding the designed layout.	[ Link]

Week of June 17^th

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	All written use cases specifications were reviewed for final delivery.	Link
Tuesday	Other team members' use cases specifications were reviewed for final delivery.	Link
Wednesday	Generating Class Diagram to relate object entities and database tables.	Link
Thursday	More methods and respective parameters were added to the Class Diagram.	Link
Friday	Improving Class Diagram, Database Model, and Use Case Diagram.	Link

Week of June 10^th

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	Connection Pool Architecture considerations were better understood in order to have an operating implementation regarding the database connectivity. Multiple connections issue was partially solved (some tests need to be taken). Currently, application handles more than one user always minimizing the number of open connections with the database.	Link
Tuesday	Minor corrections (imports, unused variables, unused methods, comments). New method for generating salt was implemented. Methods description and expected comments were included in existing classes. MVC software architecture pattern implementation is in progress.	Link
Wednesday	MVC is being implemented; now, project includes first classes and their respective Data Acess Objects (DAO). Some use case descriptions were written. Attempts to solve problems with connectivity when using a DAO are taking place.	Link
Thursday	“Manage Meetings” use case specification was written (at this point, activities involving coding were temporarily paused in order to have all use cases specifications written). Use cases specifications were assigned to team members for writing them.	Link
Friday	“Manage Class Settings”, “Manage Meetings”, and “Manage Lectures” use cases specifications were written for “Employee”, “Professor”, Student, “Guest/Non LDAP User”, “Department Admin”, and “Super Admin” actors.	Link

Week of June 3^rd

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	Short meeting for recalling current activities and accomplished steps. New blog configured and updated with previous daily feed (ystallonne.wordpress.com). Started writing a “Configurations Guide” for setting up Tomcat and Eclipse in order to run JSP Web applications. Debugged SenecaBBB project to re-establish connection with the database located in a virtual machine.	Link
Tuesday	Database connection using Eclipse and MySQL was established by modifying some of the prototype connection code. All steps for setting up software tools were successfully accomplished. Instructions on how to accordingly set up the whole development environment (including the ones for installing Java, Tomcat, and Eclipse, as well as for importing the prototype from the GitHub repository) were all compiled in a Configuration Guide, which was specially written to make the process easier for the entire team (It also includes how to set up the MySQL database on Ubuntu 12.04 based on the README.md file located in the SenecaBBB GitHub repository, and adds an explanation about how to establish a connection from Eclipse).	Link
Wednesday	Database was replaced by the revised version. Implications from the new database version were implemented in the prototype’s index page. Security measures for protecting user information are in progress. New class called PasswordHash.java was included with methods for creating and validating hashes (necessary improvements to this class are likewise in progress).	Link
Thursday	Improvements in the PasswordHash.java class and minor change in the JSP code and the CSS used in the login page. New class (DBConnection.java) created to handle connection with database and retrieve data from it with all queries being transferred to this file. The prototype version that is running on Eclipse was made available at GitHub for testing purposes (https://github.com/ystallonne/TestingJSP.git), and it is being mantained using GitHub features on Eclipse for keeping it regularly updated.	Link
Friday	Updated version of the Database is now being used. Singleton design pattern implemented for the database connection class (DBConnection.java). It prevents any other class from instantiating this class. Attempts to minimize multiple connections are currently being taken.	Link

Week of May 27^th

Week Day	Today's work	Blog URL
Monday	-	-
Tuesday	-	-
Wednesday	Set up of workspace environment. Installation of OS and necessary software tools. Short meeting for reviewing prototype.	Link
Thursday	Remaining software installations. Meeting for defining main goals. Detailed prototype review; first tasks assigned, and database changes discussed. First task started: software downloaded and successfully installed.	Link
Friday	Work in progress on the first main task. Main software tools integration was tested (eclipse IDE and Tomcat server) with a small JSP project, which includes a connection with a MySQL database, running on Tomcat server.	Link