Apparently Blogger has new functions, it should be possible to add comments new, will see.

On the subject of my muppet application; it is up and running and now I am working on the report. No date is yet set for my colloqium.

Official server

Well the powers that be, well actually one of my supervisors, has managed to put my app on a more official uni server here. The idea is that we will run a test with it in a more real setting. We are currently looking for an internal project of the faculty which is about discussing some area and where we have 3D data available.

Currently I'm writing my report, waiting for the data to appear to create the test environment. The test environment runs on IIS instead of Apache, but that shouldn't give any problems (other than it being IS obviously ;) ).

I'll try to take the results of the test into account in my report and presentation, but we'll see.

Wonderful
I have more or less finalized my application it is available here. This version is not yet completly finished today, but will be at the end of the week. Had a meeting with my supervisors and they decided the application was ready for a test in 'real' setting. So we are now looking for a nice setting within the department to test the application and see what other people think of it.

Less cool
Basically I still have the same functionality as I had the last post. Ok last friday I worked on my other job, which is progressing nicely, mostly that is. I have a weird problem with a DLL that is not recognised :(.
Yesterday I found out that while the virtual memo was created and was clickable the wrong information was attached to it. I spend the entire day to get around the fact the PHP is serverside and javascript client side, so passing variable around isn't trivial. But I solved the problem at last so the memo is still clickable and now it also gives you the related mesage in the frame next to it :).
I did some minor tweaks as well and cleaned up a bit of code, I do understand the script much more.
Today I've tried to get all the memo's loaded during start up. Currently it only creates new memo's but doesn't load existing ones. After a bit of fiddling I came up with an invisible frame to send data between php/MySQL and virtools. Not a very elegant solution but it works, except...
...it doesn't well the data is perfectly send to virtools, but it's too much and virtools messes it up. So I'm quite stuck at the moment, I'll have to figure out a different way to get the data through. bugger :(

So cool
My application is developing real fast now. I've got a nice threaded discussion thing in a frame based site. Required a little bit of hacking on the forum. The cool thing now is that if you add a new or reply on a comment it will automatically store the location and the orientation of you in the virtools player. It will also add a floating post it to the virtools environment. That post it is clickable and gives you the related message in the discussion. Well it works with firefox it was not yet functioning in IE when I left uni (at 1900h).

Morphix
Played with morphix today on a friends laptop. It is truely astonishing, almost all the useful linux (gnome) apps were there and it booted without a hitch. It is also possible to simply mount the existing HDs so you can acess your data. He's going for 9 months to brasil and was wondering about bringing restore CDs. He was so pleased by morphix that he decided to just bring morphix and use that as 'restore' CD if necessary.

Frames and php
Internet explorer and/or virtools webplayer are buggy, at least reloading the webplayer everytime the page changes is not a good idea, IE crashes horribly. So I've decided to change part of the site to a frame based setup. This requires weird tricks to be able to update three frames and leave the fourth be. The initial attempt has succeeded so far that I can control the content of three frames with one link. Now I've to rewrite loads of PHP to get all the links working properly with smooth transistion between framebased and non framebased pages.