9:25 am - 5:10 pm
   +15 mins at home trying to get my tamu web space working so I can try running perl there

I finished reading the original project proposal that Nate forwarded to me. I gained a lot of useful notes about what to show and how to show it. I sat down and tried to organize lists of: types of sensors; what they can show; and how to show it / design elements to include. From this, I brainstormed several different ways to display data. I spent some time picking through Walter Zorn's drag and drop javascript, which could be very useful. I've got two 2-sided pages full of ideas now! I also looked into virtual assistants, since the proposal mentioned that seniors may find speech easier to understand when they can see lips moving.

A&M help desk called about my tamu web space. File transfer is partly working now. I emailed them back.

I found out that the genchart thing is not a Catalyst plugin nor a standard Perl function. It actually calls to GD::Graph::bars, which is related to Template Toolkit and to a module for Perl 5 (see TT bars and Graph).

I started looking a little through Nate's code ("view").

I'm not sure what I'll work on tomorrow. Here are some ideas:

• I need to do some Catalyst learning, but we don't have all those plugins installed, and I don't know if they might be part of why I can't get that one auto/auth function working (named auto, enforces authorization/login).
• Maybe I can also get familiar with that graph function,
• and look into what Perl has available to create and work with graphics. Also, can you do anything analagous to that drag & drop stuff with Perl? (I doubt it, since Perl is server-side.)
• Also, maybe I can start sketching a proposed site framework/structure.
• Think of more concrete implementation details for floorplan visualization?
• Research "Web 2.0"?
• I'd like to go over my visualization ideas with Nate.