STATUS

• Brandon has to study for tomorrow's Analytical exam.

  • Analytical is 5 credit hours
  • Tomorrow's exam covers 6 chapters of chemical equilibria systems
  • If I make significant progress tonight, I'll work on our project a bit more

• Yes, Brandon will finish this, but it's not an immediate priority anymore.

• The website interface is super easy — mostly a copy/paste from the last project with some messy exec() calls and some minor database queries.

• The node.js (NJS) spider is having lots of issues because I didn't keep the 'this' scope clean.

  • Considering tearing it down and using a different class approach (Crockford's).
  • Took me awhile to get comfortable writing all nonblocking IO as it's not 'classical' programming

• If you want to test something, I'll just run the 'forager' I developed for g3.

  • You can't take screenshots of it, because it will be different.
  • It doesn't have start/stop/pause. This one will once I sort out the NJS issues.

Libraries/etc used for PHP website

• PHP — used for the backend
• SqLite — represents and retains the backend model
• Javascript — used for the UI
• Fat-Free Framework (F3) — a PHP microframework that provides MVC and other functionality in a very lightweight package.
• Smarty template engine — a PHP template system that separates business logic from presentational logic
• jQuery — Javascript DOM scripting and more
• Twitter Bootstrap — semantic, fluid, modern HTML layouts
• Apache2 — development server

Libraries used for Node.js webcrawler

• jsdom (npm package) — for parsing the dom and extracting the links
• underscore.js — functional closures
• jquery