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Much of last week was spent reading the new jQuery book that I have just purchased. I have also been playing with the AJAX calls and trying to get the UI to place nice with jQuery and display the forms properly. I started working on a project dashboard too, which is basically and administrator interface to show all projects and their completion across a site. Also I spent time learning how to use joins in MySQL because some of the stuff I am using is getting into more advanced queries and my knowledge of mysql has been limited to just using basic selects to pull out data.

Just a short update on what I'm working on right now
1. LAMP config - each build script derived from the base site-configure script can specify server config directives - I'm using the Pear::Config (http://pear.php.net/package/Config/) for writing and reading from the Apache conf, MySQL and PHP configuration files

I forgot to post an update to this group last week, didn't I? My apologizes, but actually there wasn't a lot of new things to report. You can read the post on my site regarding all the "fun" I had that week. This week, as I'm moving closer and closer to the server implementation, I made a proposal to change the way the server communicates with the client.

Er, right, this update post has taken longer than it should have. I've been active on the code though, and this time I even have a screenshot for you. Without further ado, I present Commit Log:

Last week was spent still working on UI enhancements and trying to tackle the problem how how to get AJAX to gracefully work if javascript isn't enabled. Later in the week I ended up attending barcamp. At barcamp I met the authors of the first jQuery book, they also gave a presentation on jQuery and answered some questions I had about it for me. I also found out that one of the authors is really involved with the Drupal community, Jon Chaffer. He is known as JonBob in the drupal community.

Again a short summary, what has been done the last week and what I've planed to do this week.

Progress last week:

Rework of weight management for terms

As announced in my last report, I did a total rework for the weight management for reordering terms. Initially, I planned to have weight select forms included in the tree structure. Soon, we saw, that this is not very nice.

With the midpoint of the summer passed, it's time to evaluate how things stand so far and then looking forward to what should be done next. The first three objectives I listed at the start have been accomplished.

1. A command-line toolkit for automatically downloading specific versions of Drupal code and building the site-code tree; consisting of:
   1.1 A schema for describing a Drupal site deployment with the following information:
   a) CVS revision of core .inc and .php files
   b) CVS revisions of core module files
   c) Name and CVS revisions of contrib- modules

So files are progressing very well. Work with file_create_url and file_create_path is mostly done but there is still some testing left to do. This is one major portion of getting private/public files working as these functions are responsible for creating the download URLs and paths for files. As always you can check out the code using bazaar from http://drupal.codeincarnate.com. In the near future I'll be looking for testers so if anyone is interested drop me a message or holler at me on IRC if you're interested.

Alright, I have been plugging away at various task. I didn't update last week, but have been making good progress. Much I spent a lot of time with design stuff, learning hooks, API, etc. But have finally started commiting code, after much fuss of learning CVS.

Since making the first release of the module last week I was finally able to get some feedback on the project, so thanks to everyone who wrote and IMed me :) This week, unfortunately, I ran into a few problems implementing publish-subscribe functionality due to the fact that clients aren't reacting to event notifications. If you want to know more, I posted all the details here.