CD-Media Progress

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Big Mike

I don't think Brandon is actually doing this, I think he has CD-47 Bot and Archiver locked in a closet doing all this while he has fun :-p


just kidding this is going to be awesome Brandon

You been spying on me (us), Mike?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...le&picid=11534

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

You been spying on me (us), Mike?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...le&picid=11534

I'm scared.

By the way, Brandon--was that you I met in Atlanta? Or did CD47-Bot make the trip to Hotlanta as well?

[Joshua May]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

You been spying on me (us), Mike?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...le&picid=11534

Ok, that's incredibly hillarious.

Great job so far on this system, you have way too much free time, or I guess poor CD-47 Bot and Archiver do.

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

You can watch my custom status for a very rough and ambiguous status.

I made some progress today & tonight, so I figured a post to update would be good. Today I ...

1. Let CD47-Bot and archiver get some sunlight; the sunlight did them good, because they proceeded to ..
2. ... give you an option to view the site at either 980px or 100%. CD-Media will be best viewed at a fixed-width of 980px in any standards compliant browser (read: not IE4, IE5, or IE6)
3. ... make the searching work. Right now theres 7 or 8 documents and 7 or 8 photos (but not real photos) in as test data, so the searching is pretty lame right now. Once there is a lot of data, it should bring back good results.
4. ... make the weighted tag list layouts look different. They were added to the photo & paper pages, too. Again, with more data the tags lists will look better (more complete, etc).
5. ... brainstorm some ideas with Joel J. of 173/229; Joel had some great ideas and input.
6. ... started a FAQ section for CD-Media. Got any questions? Start PMing them to me. If they won't be answered by future development (ie: a feature that isn't there yet, and you're curious) I will add them to the FAQ.

Things left to do, in the order of attack .. I think:

1. pages to Upload Photos & White Papers
2. Single Item pages
3. Scripts to import old data.
4. Tagging of Items via Ajax interface (which includes a user-moderated voting system)
5. Editing of Item details (via Single Page detail & Ajax)
6. Who-Am-I Photo management page
7. Photo Notes

So .. yeah. Lots done, lots to do.

[Ryan M.]

Nice list there.

I feel for the Archiver there... that's why I feel like a lot of the time.

[Winged Wonder]

wow.. something i thought was impossible just happened: Brandon's awesomeness level has grown exponentially! just when you think he's at his peak, he does something new and extremely cool for CD.

Thanks for thinking of us Brandon... this is going to be so cool once it kicks in.

[Mike AA]

Things are looking pretty cool and more organized? (could that really be?)

also, do you really have over 4500 pics on flicker? you must have that camera strapped to your side. I guess if you got it might as well use it!

Great job on everything so far. Looking forward to more and fully functional CD-Media.

-Mike

[Daniel Brim]

I decided to take a look today at what was going on, and I decided to do a photo search (because that is the feature that I'm most looking forward to). I searched for Jeopardy because I saw some in the media gallery (there are something like 100 pictures in there), and it worked!

Brandon, you are the man!

Edit: My bad, there are more pictures than that. w00t!

[Brandon Martus]

I haven't had much time to work on it in the past week or two. Things have picked up with IRI next week, and with some additional work on other sites I'm working on.

I'm still aiming to have CD-Media done by mid-August or so.

[sanddrag]

On the CD Media home page, are there supposed to be images because I don't see them? Just title, uploader, and date and time and then empty gray space where an image should be.

I just wanted to see if they are coming (something not done yet) or if something is not working right for me.

[Brandon Martus]

None yet. I have to write the import script to create all the thumbnails & whatnot. We'll have multiple sizes before you get to the original sized picture. (to fit in the fixed-width, thumbnail page, etc) This will make it so we don't resize every picture to 1024x768 .. there won't be a size (resolution, not filesize) restriction.

[Brandon Martus]

I've made some progress on CD-Media, so I thought I'd tell those who were interested (that's you, huh?).

The import scripts are all finished, I believe. They generate thumbnails (2 per picture), and pull over the white papers files, too. The thumbnail script took several hours to run (on over 10,000 images!).

I've had some spare time the past two or three evenings (what?!) and was able to do a bunch of work on the tagging and tagging moderation interfaces. You are now able to add tags to white papers only (for now)both papers and photos. Once added, your peers can vote on these tags. Once there is a unanimous decision (3 for, or 3 against) the voting ends. If there are a few, and a few against .. majority rules after 7 days of voting. Once a tag is added, you may choose to remove it (it starts the voting process with an 'against' from you). Play around with it -- it's far from being done, but it's more functional than not. Anything in square brackets ([vote], [add tag], etc) is temporary and will probably be replaced with a graphic or something more pretty.

Now with a few tags in the system, you can see how easy things like finding the Chairman's Award documents or FLL documents can be.

The upload pages don't work yet. The photo one gets to the part where you choose an image, and that's it. I needed to get the thumbnail generation stuff done first, and got sidetracked by the import scripts.

I've started to add a few items to the FAQ about tagging as well. It's not done, it's not final, etc., etc.

So -- There are bugs, I guarantee. It's ugly, for now. Some of it is kind of working, though. Give it a try; this is just test data, cleared out & reset randomly. Feedback is welcome.

Oh, when adding tags, you can put more than one per line. Any multi-worded tags (like "Dean Kamen") should be enclosed in double quotes.

[Brandon Martus]

Some additions.

Yes, it's slow. There are very few (if any) indexes on the tables .. so it should get speedier once I figure out all the proper indexes required to make it so.

Tag aliasing; You will be able to alias tags where in some cases two tags could work, but displaying and tagging as such would be redundant. (ie: acronyms & what they stand for)

Example:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/pap...tionalpartners
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/tags/fip


I will probably also be making some pages to keep track of voting. A page to show your own modifications, and how the voting is going. A page to see all open tag modifications needing people to vote on them. And maybe more ...

[jdiwnab]

Looks awsome, Brandon! I can't wait to see it all together and a regular part of CD! Great job, man!

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Brandon -

I noticed some of the tags for individual teams, such as 'frc234' or 'frc25'

Will this be the acceptable standard to tag all team related documents with? This looks like an easy way to find white papers released by a certain team, but will these tags be hidden from the main tags page? If not, I forsee this becoming very clustered.