meeting - 14/11/07

I had a meeting with Lorcan and Graeme yesterday to get feedback on my presentation, I now have a few things to fix so next time it should be better!
From the presentation I gave, it was clear that I didn't have a clue about the technology side so its been simplified right down for me and I'll be tackling it in small steps. At the moment I have to get my head around what my project is actually doing and not worry about the precise technologies just yet. I have a simple diagram which I'll blog soon.
This weekend I have to create two php forms/pages which will be part of the server although they're not yet going to be connected to the database or anything. One page will have a form asking for two inputs, an ID/name and an IP address (this doesn't yet correspond to a specific location), and the other page will be printing out a list of what was inputted. I'll be using Lorcan's lecture notes to do this as he has good examples which are very relevant and I can pretty much use as they are. I'll be looking at a few more tutorials on html and php this weekend to get to grips with it.
By the end of next week at the latest I will have my 2nd draft of Chapter 2 done, with the full template in place, I will try to get my abstract written as well because Graeme said this should explain the whole project in 5 sentences and if you get sidetracked you always have your abstract to get you back and focused. I think they are on Lorcan's blog so I'll have a look at what they are.
My WAMP is now all working and we added a database with two fields - ID and IP, haven't done anything with it but it's good to have it set up. I have to add a password which we had some trouble with but Graeme has sent me a link which looks good so I'll try following that and see if I have any luck!