Another Update (Day 30)

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As week six comes to a close I thought it was about time for another progress update. So same as last time, stealing the bullet points from 2 posts back, with new additions in italics.

GridLoad style stacked charts.

A "League Table" (totaled over the time period).

Pie charts (of the "League Table").

Filters and/or sub filters (just successful jobs, just jobs by one VO, just jobs for this CE etc).

A tabbed interface.

Regular Expression based filtering

Variable Y-axis parameter (jobs submitted, jobs started, jobs finished etc).

Transition to university web servers.

Move to a more dynamic chart legend style. Not done for pie chart yet.

Ensure w3 standards compliance/cross-browser compatibility & testing.

Automate back end data-source (currently using a small sample data set). Need automatic renewal of grid certificates.

Variable X-axis time-step granularity.

Data/image export option.

A list of minor UI improvements. (About 10 little jobs, not worth including in this list as they would be meaningless, without going into a lot more detail about how the gadget's code is implemented).

Optimise database queries and general efficiency testing.

Make the interface more friendly. (Tool-tips etc.)

Possible inclusion of more "real time" data.

Gadget documentation.

A Simple project webpage.

A JSON data-source API reference page.

2nd gadget, to show all know infon for a given JobID.

2nd gadget: Add view of all JobIDs for one user (DN string).

The items in this list are now approximately in the order I intend to approach them.

On another note, I have finally managed to get some decent syntax highlighting for google gadgets, thanks to this blog post even if it means being stuck with VIM. To get this to work add the vim modeline to the very bottom of the xml gadget file, other wise it tends to break things, such as the gadget title, if added at the top. Whilst VIM is not my editor/IDE of choice it's pretty usable and can, with some configuration, match most of the key features (show whitespaces), I use in Geany. However Geany's folding feature would save a lot of time & scrolling.