teeny tiny update

thought i broke my code but i had it trying to send info to a php file that i'd deleted! oopsies. Luckily I had a backup coz I'm great.

I have my java code giving an error whenever its not connected to the internet as me and Graeme couldn't figure out why it wasn't getting the MAC address over in CASL where there is no internet where we were, go us, although in fairness to Graeme he figured it out!

My webpage has two extra pages, one to register a username, one to register a location, at the moment the php page doesn't get the MAC address, it just gives directions on how to get it and the user has to put it in themselves.

Meeting - 07/02/2008

I met with Graeme and Lorcan today and discussed my presentation, basically I have to not apologise ever and get less nervous! I'll work on that.
Also discussed the trip to Microsoft Research, plan is that Lorcan will talk about my project, some of the other final year projects and some of his research which will be interesting, then I'll demo my project which should be pretty good by then (fingers crossed!)
Spent a while cleaning up my code, I had an extra table in my database which I didn't need and I'll incorporate user inputs into my webpage so they can register a location and register their usernames which will then be saved in the database. This shouldn't be too hard so I'll do this first. I will also update my System Architecture diagram and post it when I get round to doing it.
Next step is my clock display, can't wait! Graeme gave me a list with Flash, java 2d etc, which I will look into, was talking to Owen about Processing which he is using, it can be used in Eclipse which sounds handy.
I'm gonna make a start on my report as well wrt the design and why I've chosen to use the technologies and other possibilities I considered etc.
Also have to make a java GUI such as a JOptionPane but this is less important for now.

So I now have my php displaying where people are refreshing every 60 seconds for when the database is updated.
I also have it displaying when someone's location is not known, but instead of printing out their name it prints out "Resource id#3's location unknown", I'm not sure why...!

Presentation plans

I followed pretty much the outline Lorcan gave to us with regards to our slides for the presentation, I've sent them to Graeme just to check that they're not crap so hopefully they're ok!
Been panicing slightly over the demo we have to give, my Java code is interacting with the database although it isn't inputting the information it takes in, it just adds a blank row, grrr.
I should be meeting with Graeme tomorrow to go over the code in person, this should solve the problem

More Java

I'm still working on the Java program, and after a very dumb half an hour yesterday (sorry Graeme!) I now have the MAC code and all the Java code works together and prints out in the command line asking for a user name and prints out the MAC address. But now it doesnt print out on my php page so I'm once agin confused. I think it's because I have more than one Java file I'm not sure so I'll troubleshoot this and see what information I can find.

Java fun

Just an update on what I've done recently, admittedly it's not much with the first week and the fact that it was Java I needed to do!
At the moment I have two seperate Java programs, one can read in input from the command line which I need to get a username.
The second is a program that communicates with php, at the moment it's a simple hello world test that prints to my web page but I have it working so shouldn't be too bad to get it to do what I want.
So I've saved the best till last, to get the MAC address through Java.

Meeting - 18/01/08

On Friday I had a meeting with Steve and Graeme, they helped solve my problem with the database taking in the usernames and showing their most recent time, the php can now take in any number of users and output their max times.

I had to make a few minor changes to my code, just clean it up a bit.

My next task is to write some java code that takes in a username string and obtains the MAC address, thank you Graeme for sending on the code to help with that section! I'll have to look into how to connect to the web from java such as httprequest or something.
Then I'll have another php page that gets the username and MAC address from the java code and it will then send this to the database.