8:00 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Spent some more time looking at firefox plugin development.After a long talk with Mike, tentatively decided that it was better to go with the DJ Project approach and build a Java wrapper. Spent the rest of the day finding the CVS repo, reading documentation and pondering.

7:30 – 4:30 VISIBILITY

• Tentatively scheduled my Spider training for Jan 5 at 11:30
• Looks like you use the NET command to add users, etc using the command line. There are lots of options:
  • USER – see http://www.windows-commandline.com/2009/05/add-user-from-command-line.html, http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/net_use.mspx?mfr=true
    • net user myUserLogin myUserPassword /add
  • LOCALGROUP – adds, displays, or modifies global groups on servers. Used
    without parameters, it displays the groupnames on the server. see http://www.windows-commandline.com/2009/05/add-user-to-group-from-command-line.html
    • net localgroup myLocalGroup myUserLogin /add – add the user ‘myUserLogin’ to the group ‘myLocalGroup’
    • net localgroup Users myUserLogin /delete
• Once the user is created, then mkGroup -l > /etc/group and mkPasswd -l > /etc/passwd have to be run to make cygwin aware of the new users. Also, new home directories need to be made. Then the new user can telnet in and everything works fine.
• Spent a good deal of time looking at making sure that whatever framework we used could support debugging client code. I think the the choice is reall between two options. Either the debugger (and some/all of the dev environment) browser, or the browser runs in the dev environement
  • Running inside the browser means something like Firebug. They have the flashbug plugin, and my guess is that it wouldn’t be too hard to put in additional pieces if we needed too.
  • The other option is to run the browser in the IDE. The DJ Project seems to ba a framework that would support this

7:00 – 4:00 VISIBILITY

• Now that the basics of the process-based interaction work, I’m going to make it a useful member of the program family instead of the unstable CPU hog it currently is.
  • Added sleep(10) to the processing loops and made everything work with buffered inputs and outputs. CPU usage is unnoticeable, and responsiveness feels the same.
  • Added watchers for the three threads so they all shut down when the user types “exit”
  • Can navigate around through the OS, run maven and other cool things 🙂
  • Cleaned up the user input so that it is split from the thread that watches the keyboard and the method that sends the command to the process.

On a side note, went out for a lunchtime ride and averaged 18.2, including the parking lot. A nice, summery pace on a day with a 37 degree high.

8:00 – 5:30 VISIBILITY

• Ingested some new customer data that has trending! Now I can demonstrate that feature 🙂
• Working on the ExecShell class. It looks like I should be using ProcessBuilder instead. It was introduced in Jva5 and is a bit more sophisticated. Ideally, I need to be able to use the spawned process (shell?) to run multiple commands, while keeping track of the current directory. Going to try to run the “cmd /k” option, then interact through the processes input, output and error streams.
• Moderate flailing on the above. Made some progress. Found the following to try tomorrow:
  • http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/6335
  • Got it. I was using (char)13 and I should have been using “n” (CR+LF). Whee!