| Friday, June 9, 2006 |
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The first major thing I worked on today was the code in the Catalyst application, specifically trying to get the dbi->trace command to work. I made my own copy, renaming the necessary calls and files therein. I tried to line up the indents in the function that calls dbi->trace (genchart) to see what commands were in what loop, finally succeeding with the help of Kate (KDE Advanced Text Editor -- collapses blocks and everything!). I finally found out that the function was never getting called -- a copy in another file was. I got that fixed, got dbi->trace working, but I can't get the count command to work in this new function. I have to comment it out for the genchart function to run. I don't know what's wrong with it. I bookmarked a couple of sites that talk about making imagemaps using Perl, for making our graphs clickable. Check out graphviz -- purty! Next I decided to work on mocking up a bubble chart, since Nate has been wanting to use those. I've got most of the pseudocode in. Maybe I should look at learning Ajax or XML. Would those be compatible with Catalyst? Would they be useful? Would they be accessible, cross-browser-compatible, etc? (How much do we care?) I'd also like to know how to stop a sql command (like "select *" returning 3 billion records) without having to log back into the mysql interface. But the most exciting thing I did today, by far, was learning about remapping my keys, mostly via xmodmap. I've swapped the left Ctrl with Caps Lock, and I think it's going to take a lot of strain off that pinky (keyboard fan that I am, I try not to jump over to the mouse more often than I have to). I also discovered some existing keyboard shortcuts here, including:
Can you tell it's Friday? |
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