Ystallonne Weekly log 20132

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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 (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 user case descriptions were written. Attempts to solve problems with connectivity when using a DAO are taking place.	Link
Thursday	“Manage Meetings” user case specification was written (at this point, activities involving coding were temporarily paused in order to have all user cases’ specifications written). User cases’ specifications were assigned to team members for writing them.	Link
Friday	“Manage Class Settings”, “Manage Meetings”, and “Manage Lectures” user cases’ specifications were written for “Employee”, “Professor”, Student, “Guest/Non LDAP User”, “Department Admin”, and “Super Admin” actors.	Link
Saturday	-	-

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’s info 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
Saturday	-	-

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
Saturday	-	-