Today's Work
I installed the STWebsite fix on production. There was a problem with the test version of Zope on zps that mad it inoperable. I got support to stop Zope on zps, restarted it, packed the database, and restarted it again. I did some research for the LDAP 2 Project and started creating a project plan for it. Finally, I did some further research on the printable page problem, using this web site as a test vehicle.
Posted on Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Tags: zope web ldap
Today's Work
I finished testing tozope.pl this morning and then made an additional change. The script now supports relative links. After lunch I looked at writing a printable method, which would display a page minus its navigation.
Posted on Wed, 30 Oct 2002 Tags: tozope
Today's Work
I finally figured out the problem with tozope.pl. As always, it's something very simple that makes me feel foolish. The contributors metadata item needed to have the lines type, so it would be read as a sequence. So now tozope.pl works and I was able to start testing. I verified that uploading the files do not bloat the database. Tomorrow I will check the metadata.
Essential CSS and DHTML for Web Professionals looks like an interesting book.
Posted on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 Tags: web tozope metadata
Today's Work
In the morning I added code to the TSD project wiki that creates a link to the outstanding call associated with the wiki. Jim was having a problem with his code that builds the met tags. I suggested a work around that solved the problem. In the afternoon we had a long meeeting about what meetings we needed to handle our workflow.
Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2002 Tags:
Today's Work
Pretty much the entire day was spent in a futile attempt to track down the problem in tozope.pl, about which the less said, the better. I also tested Jims fix to switch categories on the procedure catalog. The test "worked" but I have doubts about the whole idea.
Posted on Fri, 25 Oct 2002 Tags: tozope
Today's Work
Sean said the cgi script to dump the environment variables that I emailed me didn't work. I checked it out and it was a problem with an extra blank at the end of a line. And you thought Python was the only language that cared about blanks. Then I beat my head against the metadata upload problem in my tozope.pl script. I didn't resolve it, but the upload crashes on line 133 of the metadataEdit method. Leigh and Steve reported a permissions problem with my STWebsite product. It turns out the problem is that I used the "view" permission rather than the "View" permission. Mike Wiggs was have a problem with the set status page in the TSD project wiki. It turns out that he left a blank line in the list of statuses and the problem went away when it was deleted. The problem I was having with the project wiki yesterday has mysteriously disappeared. I won't complain.
Jim Grice has set up a web page, but there's nothing on it yet.
Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2002 Tags: cgi metadata python tozope web
Today's Work
I worked on the project wiki, but I couldn't seem to get the automatic id creation to work. So I switched to debugging the tozope method and ran into a problem uploading the metadata. I think the problem has to do with setting metadata types. I changed some code, but will have to test it tomorrow.
Posted on Wed, 23 Oct 2002 Tags: metadata tozope
Today's Work
I wanted to finish the TSD project wiki, but didn't quite make it. I did the stuff I mentioned yesterday, and also changed the page formatting and added the camelback code. However, I wasn't able to hook up the automatic id generation via the camelBack.
Watch out, the cops are coming. A judge has ruled a web site is illegal because it can't be accessed by the visually impaired.
Posted on Tue, 22 Oct 2002 Tags: web
Today's Work
I spent all day working on the TSD project wiki. I worked at combining Mike Wigg's code with my slimmed down version of the viewWiki procedure. I also added the ability to set a call number, which doesn't yet work. In addition to getting this to work, I want to get rid of technicalLead and replace it with call number on the top page.
Posted on Mon, 21 Oct 2002 Tags:
Today's Work
In the morning I wrote up the minutes from yesterday's lessons learned meeting for the remedy project and posted it on the remedy project page. I also did a preliminary version of the LDAP 2 project page. In the afternoon I worked on debugging the tozope script and I talked with Jim about what was wrong with my revised project wiki.
Splint is a lint-like program that checks C code for common security holes. The code and documentation can be found at http://splint.org/.
Posted on Fri, 18 Oct 2002 Tags: c ldap remedy tozope