Happy August!

I completed the calendar modifications. I set the built-in range, and I fixed an unforeseen issue with the combination of an overall range and a 90-day range. But for some reason, I can't get the calendar to work on my bedbars page. I'm guessing it can't find the right files, or something. I've put up a test case here [Edit: link removed] (and the files it should find are here). Hmm, that's odd, it seems to work now (although the real page still doesn't). But it doesn't have the date range I set. I'll have to look into this tomorrow.

The bar graph now changes its width to accommodate more bars if you select more than 30 days' worth of data. I also have the function pass height and width to the template to be used in the <img> tag -- a small change, but one that keeps the page from rearranging when the graph is rendered. I found out that the module we are using (GD::Graph) can indeed do different data sets on adjacent bars on the same graph. It can't do this at the same time as the stacked bars, though, since it wouldn't know what to stack and what to display side by side. So we're still going with the stacked graph and not the side-by-side graph for now. I also made the image captions (not seen by the average user) a little more readable.

There are now three bar graphs on the page! I had to rearrange the functions a bit so that we could get all the data without running that query once for each type, but now we have a graph for restlessness, a graph for pulse, and a graph for breathing. They are the same size and lined up one right under the other, so that you could compare them, except for the fact that they won't all fit on the screen at once. The query does seem to take a lot longer now. I guess that makes sense; it's having to pull 9 sets of data instead of 4.

I'll try to get this page looking a little nicer before Wednesday's meeting. I especially want that calendar to work, since I've brought it so close to being ready. I'm going to check some of the breathing data (and maybe pulse) against the database just to be sure. I also may want to ask somebody why one of the sensors has never given a certain reading, ever. 

I'm heading to TigerPlace now to make sure I can connect properly via my laptop, to avoid another surprise at the meeting like the one I had last week. Hopefully this meeting will give me some good material for my paper.

The rest of my time here should be interesting. I have two major projects I haven't started yet: the new visualization, and my final paper.