DOH

Ok, so I haven't been able to figure out how to have my output print the e-mail addresses like a list. But it turns out that it was so easy. I guess I didn't know how to use the operation '+='

That was basically all I needed. But good thing Ben figured it out, obviously he has a keener grasp on JavaScript than I do. He probably figured it out in 2 seconds in what took me 2 days of scratching my head. I just feel incredibly stupid.


I knew that the checkboxes would have been easily added, all i had to do was insert them, but the main problem was that I didn't know how to make it list the output instead of replacing them. But yah, i'm impressed and I feel stupid that I couldn't get it. That '+=' was pretty much the only thing that was missing from my source code. I wish I was better at javascript!

I would paste the code on this text box, but it seems this blog would read and process it as actual html code and it throws and error and won't let me.

AJAX

I started to look at AJAX more indepth last week, since our project was heavily javascript oriented. My task from the group meeting last Sunday was to make a simple textbox for entering an e-mail address, a button to enter it and have that same e-mail address be displayed on the webpage without refreshing the page itself and have the textbox be cleared.

I started to study how the response work, and what the XMLHttpRequest object is. It took me awhile to understand the code, and even now i don't really feel like I have a firm grasp on it - but at least a working knowledge.

Although I only figured out how to get the email print on the page, i need to figure out how to make it list multiple emails without clearing the first output. I suppose it'll have to do with assigning the string to an array of some sort and using a loop. I hope I will be able to figure it out this week.

Our group didn't have a meeting this week, but I'm sure we'll have something to discuss about on Tuesday this week.

Late

I have been so stressed this week with my other classes. I feel like there was so much bearing down my shoulders this week and was not able to make any significant progress on this project. Thankfully, the rough ride is over and I can relax a bit. But it seems late night is when i can actually concentrate on something and work on it. Thus, the reason for writing this entry at 2:30am.

Last weekend, my group met again to talk about the project. Jen and I are to make a textbox that would allow us to type in an e-mail address, submit, and have the e-mail address display on the page WITHOUT reloading the entire page. Seems pretty easy to do, but I am finding it to be very difficult. This can be easily done with regular html form and a javascript method to read it, but I find that I cannot get it to display the e-mail address without reloading the page.

It will have something to do with AJAX, but I can't figure out where to find the information on it. So, I am very disappointed to say that I am not making any breakthroughs - yet.

We had our first meeting today outside of class to discuss the layout of our calendar project. I suppose it is a good thing that we now have a foundation to work upon now, instead of just a concept that we had in the prior weeks. We ran various hypothetical simulations of possible scenarios and found some problems with how the scheduling system would work, ranging from who would get the final say in appoint times or if the computer should be able to choose.

Some of these should be worked out in the coming week or so. For now, the purpose of the group meeting was to work out a layout and plan -which we did, and to also prepare for the upcoming project presentation in class on Tuesday.

My overall feel for the project:

I don't even know what I feel. I can't say that I am feeling excited and optimistic because it's a lot of work. But I wish I was able to contribute a bit more to the group discussion. The bulk of it was Steffan and Ben talking.. but then again the project is Ben's idea and Steffan apparently has the most experience in programming - so they both were doing an excellent job of collaborating. I guess I feel like I am much more of an underdog in this case. Nevertheless, I will do the best of my abilities to do what is needed.

So far, we are planning to meet this weekend to work on the layout of the interface, distribute the work between members and prepare for the presentation next thursday. That is all i can think of right..