[Babase] Re: prototype ready on Monday or Tuesday

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Sat Sep 2 12:37:48 EDT 2006


Thanks Patrick.

Leah, although Patrick copied his message to the babase listserv, it  
did not arrive in my mailbox through that route. Can you check on  
what is going on with that? Or maybe I am confused about something?

Regarding the prototype, I think that Leah has a couple of questions  
about capabilities and also a question about where the corrected  
files are stored. I think she's hoping to speak with you Tues (she's  
off on Monday), and then I feel sure that we can move forward.

Thanks,
Susan

On Sep 1, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Patrick Chu wrote:

> OK, I think I'm already signed up for the listserv, and I've opted  
> for daily
> digests instead of message by message, but I haven't received  
> anything from
> the list since I signed up. Either it's not sending it to me or my  
> spam
> blocker is being overly aggressive.
>
> Please play around with the prototype and let me know if you'd like to
> change anything. If not, I'll go ahead and support the rest of the  
> import
> types and integrate it into the Duke system. That demo you see is  
> running
> the same version of PHP (version 4) and Postgres (version 8) that's  
> on your
> servers, so I don't foresee major problems with the integration.
>
>
> -----------------------
>
> Patrick Chu
> mailto:patchu at itsyourturn.com
> (919) 682-0027
>
> http://www.itsyourturn.com - It's Your Turn, Inc.
> 60 seconds a day is all it takes.
> Play online interactive chess, checkers, backgammon, Stack4,
> Battleboats, reversi, and variations with friends and family!
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Susan Alberts [mailto:alberts at duke.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 4:25 PM
> To: patchu at itsyourturn.com
> Cc: Babase Database Project
> Subject: Re: prototype ready on Monday or Tuesday
>
> HI Patrick,
>
> We're delighted that you've got the prototype up, it's exciting to
> see it. I took a look at it and Leah is working with it as well to
> test it out.  We will get back to you soon.
>
> If you haven't already signed yourself up for the babase mailing
> list, it would be very helpful if you'd do so, and also if you'd
> correspond with us via that list, so that we can archive easily our
> correspondence. Leah has already forwarded our previous
> correspondence with you to the list, so we only need to go from here
> forward.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Susan
>
>
> On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:21 PM, Patrick Chu wrote:
>
>> OK, I've posted the prototype on one of my servers:
>>
>> http://papio.itsyourturn.com/main.php
>>
>> This is running on one of my machines completely separate from the
>> Duke Bio
>> database, so feel free to play around and import any many data sets
>> as you
>> want. Also, I have a separate copy of the application AND the
>> database on my
>> laptop, so there's a completely separate copy. You won't damage
>> anything by
>> trying to break it (as long as you use the NA0306(a/b) as stated
>> below.
>>
>> Only one person can edit a data set at a time (but multiple people
>> can be
>> editing different data sets at the same time). What this means is,
>> if two
>> people are testing this at the same time, don't use the same name of
>> "NA0306" to describe your data set. Use "leahtest1" or  
>> "susantest1" or
>> something similar as the name.
>>
>> From the main page, click on the "import a data set" link. There are
>> instructions at the bottom of that page, which I've pasted here:
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>> Notes:
>> How to use this page:
>> 1. Only the datasets "NA0306(a/b)" work at this time. The other
>> formats will
>> be added later (this is easy to do)
>> 2. Go into your excel spreadsheet, find the data set that you want to
>> import, and "select all" and then "copy"
>> 3. "Paste" it into the text box above
>> 4. Enter the name of the file and whether it is an A or B set
>> 5. Click "Add" to save it to the database, or "Cancel" to return to
>> the main
>> screen
>> 6. You'll need to submit both an A and a B set in order to start
>> the compare
>> 7. You can enter the same data set again (as many times as you
>> want) if you
>> make a mistake -- it will overwrite the previous import
>> 8. Return to the main screen, and click on "Compare" to edit
>> differences
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>> When you get to the data compare page, you can edit either the A or
>> the B
>> set-- whichever you like. You can also edit one or all rows,
>> whichever you
>> like. When you click "submit" the changes are saved to the database
>> (in
>> temporary tables). You can then leave the application, and when you
>> come
>> back, you can pick up where you left off.
>>
>> Right now there's no change tracking on what changes you made and
>> what the
>> original data was, but I can provide that in a separate table if
>> you like.
>>
>> Also, let me know if you ever change the dates on the data sets. If
>> not, I
>> can take the date picker off that page, but if you do, I can leave
>> it on.
>> The date picker is a handy way to change dates.
>>
>> Some of the links look weird, but this is the standard Duke Biology
>> CSS web
>> page formatting that I'm using. I don't like some of the formatting
>> that
>> they've done. Let me know if you want me to change the appearance of
>> anything.
>>
>> Things left to do on this project:
>>
>> -- handle any type of input, not just the format above
>> -- Move project to a Duke Bio machine web space area
>> -- add my working tables to the Babase database
>> -- An "insert to live database" function that will take data from the
>> corrected input files and insert them into the "live" tables
>>
>> I don't see any problems doing any of the above. The user interface
>> is often
>> the hardest thing to nail down.
>>
>> Let me know what you think.
>>
>>
>> -----------------------
>>
>> Patrick Chu
>> mailto:patchu at itsyourturn.com
>> (919) 682-0027
>>
>> http://www.itsyourturn.com - It's Your Turn, Inc.
>> 60 seconds a day is all it takes.
>> Play online interactive chess, checkers, backgammon, Stack4,
>> Battleboats, reversi, and variations with friends and family!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Susan Alberts [mailto:alberts at duke.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 12:10 PM
>> To: patchu at itsyourturn.com
>> Cc: Leah Gerber; Jeanne Altmann
>> Subject: Re: prototype ready on Monday or Tuesday
>>
>> Patrick,
>>
>> THanks for this update. I am happy that we'll be able to see a
>> prototype on Monday or Tuesday, this is great. I am also in agreement
>> with your billing suggestion, I do understand that there are first-
>> time startup costs and appreciate that you are willing to absorb some
>> of them.
>>
>> Susan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone
> 919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu
>
>
>
>

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Susan Alberts, Dept. Biology, Duke University, Durham NC 27708. Phone  
919-660-7272, Fax 919-660-7293. alberts at duke.edu





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