Monday, March 24, 2008

Slacker

No sure about this but I just re-did part of the database to unify the naming and all of a sudden we start getting a weird error which this link addresses ... http://webomania.wordpress.com/2006/10/01/out-of-range-value-adjusted-for-column-error/

To resolve the problem I simply made the declared data-types in the relevant stored procedures the same as in the database tables. Weird but the problem is fixed.

Monday, March 3, 2008

Frustration Continues

Today I have been pounding away at javascript trying to get a new window to behave appropriately but have instead uncovered some browser differences between Safari and Firefox which may cause me to have to scrap then current approach.


This code works in Safari but does not work in Firefox I finally stepped back to this tutorial from a book after trying for 4 hours to get an Ajax response to appear in the new window to no avail.

childWindow = window.open("","Event Revision");
var doc = childWindow.document;
doc.body.innerHTML="

this is a test

";

This was the approach I wanted to take to deal with Event Revisioning/Commenting & perhaps Relating but it may simply not be possible, which if that is the case will annoy me greatly.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Catchup

So the last week I was working on several issues and was distracted from core-development.

Firstly I was working on the extended abstract for the WorldComp'08 deadline yesterday.

Also I spent some time working on a small project for OIP.

Today's issue is a leftover issue from last week.

The issue revolves around this

<s:graphicimagedynamic imagerendererclass="#{dataEntry.blobRenderer}"><f:param name="blobIndex" value="#{dataEntry.tempI}"></f:param></s:graphicImageDynamic>I have been having issues getting the correct f:parameter value fed into the blobRenderer class, presently I believe I am boot strapping the parameter from within the bean method that returns the render class object. I am annoyed that I cannot instead use a jsp expression such as,
value="<%=i%>"I have tried several other approaches mixing JSP into the JSF such as a JSP expression which evaluates to a jsf tag with appropriate value but then the tag is simply not rendered. This all frustrates me greatly. The boot strapping method still appears to work but I am not convinced it is the correct solution.

Catchup

So the last week I was working on several issues and was distracted from core-development. 

Firstly I was working on the extended abstract for the WorldComp'08 deadline yesterday.

Also I spent some time working on a small project for OIP.

Today's issue is a leftover issue from last week.

The issue revolves around this

<s:graphicimagedynamic imagerendererclass="#{dataEntry.blobRenderer}"><f:param name="blobIndex" value="#{dataEntry.tempI}"></f:param></s:graphicImageDynamic>I have been having issues getting the correct f:parameter value fed into the blobRenderer class, presently I believe I am boot strapping the parameter from within the bean method that returns the render class object.  I am annoyed that I cannot instead use a jsp expression such as,
 
value="<%=i%>"I have tried several other approaches mixing JSP into the JSF such as a JSP expression which evaluates to a jsf tag with appropriate value but then the tag is simply not rendered.  This all frustrates me greatly.  The boot strapping method still appears to work but I am not convinced it is the correct solution.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Slow week

This has not been a productive week.  Presently I am going to begin outlining the extended abstract on the paper for the end of the month.   At lunch I was meditation on SMS and I am curious about drawing a parallel to HTTP/1.0 in terms of its statelessness.  The SMS standard does have features for maintaining state and some other options which are typically not utilized either in carrier network or in the native user interface in the phone.  Also I am curious if this is at all Web2.0-ish.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Still at it

Got the preparedstatement worked out, a silly problem, I was re-initializing the variable after the properties were set.

Added an error message box to deal with invalid input.

Also Ricanek and I looked @ http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp08/ws/conferences/icomp08 to submit a paper to.

The general topic is Mobile Computing and the Internet.

The paper will aim to sell the idea of doing mobile computing w/ ubiquitous hardware, a pitch paper.  Presently we are ham-strung w/ hardware w/ too many OS's, flavors of OS, no SDK.  (Symbian, J2ME, iPhone) so our common interfacing point is SMS.  Need to find some other products/projects utilizing SMS.  (mobile ed ..?)  make a case that there is a marketplace demand for this and it is a untapped resource al la Community Tipping ...


Back to the grind stone

Today I am aiming to resolve my issue with the prepared statements.

Also I realized for input validation I need to go and add several message boxes which provide direct feed back for invalid input.  

Also www.communitytips.org is live