[Babase] Re: prototype ready on Monday or Tuesday

Leah Gerber lgerber at duke.edu
Sun Sep 3 13:29:03 EDT 2006


Hello Susan,

I did not receive this message from Patrick at all, except in forwarded 
form from you. Could you forward me what you received so I can see who 
it was sent to. I will try to figure out what is going on.

Leah

Susan Alberts wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> 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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