Task list

Thanks, Jose, for the suggestion that any user should be able to create a new project work. I had implemented the db so that such creation is feasible.


Here is the tasks we have ahead related to the website

• Explain the mvnforum to Srinath
• Work with Srinath to integrate jsf with mvnforum
• Let us get a welcome page with jsf and mvnforum

At this stage, we should be able to go for buying the webspace and hosting the available pages. We can also start writing articles in this site.

Questions for Srinath

• How do we set the db connection so that entire application refers this connection info? Something like datasource stuff.
• Ease of switching context between local application and published one
• How to keep updating the web apps after production? Like, while the application is running and also to determine the set of files that got modified.
• Easy way to maintain the website.

End-user perspective

• choose and view project pages
• Register for projects and programs
• Monitor their activites

Project moderator perspective

• Ability to create/edit projects
• Invite and maintain user list, if the project supports user activity
• Create and manage programs and events, if the project requires

Web admin

• Maintain the list of projects and categories
• Manage user community

Documentation tasks

• Welcome page
• Help
• faq
• Acknowledgement
• About us
• Manual for Project moderators
• Articles on individual projects

mvnforum data accessible

I got my code retriving data from the mvnforum system. I am able to find the logged in user info, also able to go through the list of users available.
Here is the thread with detail.

Tuesday Srikanth and myself will put together everything and get ready with the pages.
Hopefully by next week we should buy the space.

mvnforum installed

Did a local installation of mvnforum and got a hang of it. Looks good.

Yet to do :

• Write a jsp file to access logged in user info.
• Integrate forum with jsf apps
• Work with Srinath to come up with jsf pages along with hibernate layer
  

Jose

• If you find time, pls go thru the web hosts including webindia.com; we need jsp 1.2, mysql
• You mentioned about free domain name registration. How free is this free-ness? Will there be any hidden charges; like registration is free but u need to pay for pointing the domain name to some other host server etc. How long is this free, means 1 yr trial period or life long etc.
  
  
  

Survey tool

I wanted to conduct a survey in the net. Went through couple of sites offering online survey. The questionare can be customized and the website collects data. Found few shortcoming in those sites. As always, there were limited service for free option and one need to switch to paid service for sophisticated facilities. Also, the flexibility of the questionair was another concern.

I want to list out n number of factors to participants and ask them to arrange those as per the priority (importance and relevance of those factors). I found most of the sites fail to provide this kind of ordering. Hence I thought about preparing a flash based questionare.

The flow of the questionare will be :

• Accept gender and age of the participant. Upon clicking a big arrow, take these two input to the top of the screen. May be the size of these two input component reduced, but still adjustable by the user.
• Now display n number of blocks or rectangular slabs. Each slab represent a factor/item. User will be allowed to move around the slabs and order them top to bottom.
• When the mouse is moved over the slab, comments can be displayed on the slab.
• Upon arranging the slabs, user clicks the submit button. The gender, age and order of these slabs are taken as user input. A php or jsp page receive these data and deposit in a db table.
• Later we will come up with fancy ways to process these data and analyze.
  

The survey I am interested is to find the mind set of people in matrimonial field. It would be nice to know the trend now and may be few years down the line.

Some of the factors that come into my mind are (not in any order) :

1. Religion
2. Caste
3. Language
4. Job profile
5. Look
6. Horoscope
7. Location preference
8. Family background
9. Charactor of the person

I dont see any direct or immediate use by this exercise. However, it might give us an oppurtunity to interact with the mass.

Planner

I wanted to record my reading, exercise habits. Thought of checking a planner or scheduler. Friends suggested google calender, MS project kind of open source. None I found so far are inline with what I look for.

I want to define few parameters like doing exercise, reading xyz books, listening to music etc. These topics should be categorized. At a later point of time, I should be able to analyze the progress I have made in these activities. For eg, I should see a graph representing the reading progress I made in a week wrt a book.

Still searching. If I dont get what I am looking for, I might have to write a small apps for the same.

Notice zapper

Other day I was glancing thru the newspaper. Usually I skip over the government announcements, legal notices, company messages, tender, personal messages etc. Out of curiosity, I was reading one or two messages. That made me wonder how people follow up with the vast amount of information bombarded on a daily basis. Some of the messages might be issued for record sake ... ie, the organization wants to have a proof of making a wide announcement, but doesn't interested in getting the attention from the interested parties.

In fact, I had done that. I was supposed to publish a matter in two or three newspaper. I choose the papers which are less popular, made the notice in such a way it goes unnoticed.

While thinking in this line, I was visualizing a simple web app which would categorize these messages, store the archives, provide powerful navigation and search mechanism. Paid data entry operators collect the papers from different cities and upload these notices into the system.
Big corporates might be interested to subscribe to such website.

Not sure if this is already there.

the db design

Got the data design ready. Going through hibernate.