Status Board News

I have begun a major revision of Status Board. The same software will be used, but I am fixing things that did not work right previously.

Check back later for a specific list of changes and new code.

The original project that I started this to support is coming to an end on 24 Feb 2003. During the course of the project there were several areas that I found that need to be fixed. I may rewrite parts of Status Board to support these features. Also the release of the HTML::Mason book by O'Reilly will make my coding better.

Status Board is a web based (Apache, mod_perl, HTML::Mason, MySQL) system to store answers to checklist type questions and produce reports.

This is a code and table structure release of a site that is in production.

If you have downloaded and tried Status Board give me some feeb back. I have looked at the code and see areas that need to be fix and that I can make more effective on future releases.

If you have bugs, feature requests or just a suggestion on how to make this a better project please let me know.

Thanks,

Andy

Since going live there have been a number of small changes to the code. There will be a 0.8.1 release next week once I clean up some of the code and get some test data prepared. There have been a few errors made due to working too late (working until after 2am then getting up at 5:30am for work for two weeks is not good).

There is now a section where designated individuals can select which units they want to review. They log in using their own id then go to this page to change units.... read more

On 1 Oct 2002 the NJ Army National Guard implementation of Status Board went live.

Status Board is being hosted on an internal server running Red Hat 7.3, mod_perl 1.26, Apache 1.3.26, and MySQL 3.23. We are also using Perl 5.8.0, and HTML::Mason 1.05.

Each unit in the NJ Army National Guard (NJARNG) is responsible for inspecting itself and posting the results to Status Board. As the status changes they are required to update Status Board, which is the official record of each unit's status.... read more

I have released a new snapshot today - The Friday the 13th Snapshot - that contains the table fixes patched last week and some code updates. The past few days have been spend doing data scrubs instead of coding. More code will be coming after the weekend, maybe even some documentation ;-)

There is a size difference in how two columns are declare that break the application. Please see the files section and download the updated SQL defs.

The tarball I sent up a few days ago has been added to CVS. I will start adding files to CVS soon.

A new snapshot of the code has been release. Currently working are: Login, Logout, viewing questions, answer updates.

Still need is more user support (forgotten passwords etc) and reports.

This is the last public release of some of the db tables. I will release any changes to the table structures though.

The web page for the site has been uploaded. I have also put together a lame logo. It basically reflects the idea behind Status Board (get a green for each question/area). It does not make it any nicer looking.

Today was the first release of the first HTML::Mason component that will be used on this project. delta.cmp is a component that calculates the difference in days between two dates. It uses Data::Calc. It will be used to count down the number of days remaining before the date this project is due.