| Date |
Things Discussed |
Feedback |
Future work |
| May 7, 2009 |
Defense |
Defense |
Defense |
| May 5, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett regarding the changes I made to the presentation |
Dr.Pollett suggested few more changes in my presentation slides |
Make corrections in the slides and prepare for defense |
| Apr 28, 2009 |
Finished testing with Firefox, IE, Opera and Safari |
Dr.Pollett suggested few changes in my presentation slides |
Make corrections in the slides and prepare for defense |
| Apr 21, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett the corrections need to be made in the report |
Dr.Pollett suggested me to use CURL for testing inInternet Explorer, Opera and Safari |
Finish measuring the performance in IE, Opera and Safari |
| Apr 14, 2009 |
Finished testing with Firefox and submitted Dr.Pollett the hard copy |
Dr.Pollett suggested me to test using Internet Explorer, Opera and Safari |
Find a tool used for measuring the performance in IE, Opera and Safari |
| Apr 7, 2009 |
Showed Dr. Pollett my report |
Dr.Pollett suggested me to finish the report for next week and give me him a hard copy |
Do testing and finish the report |
| Mar 31, 2009 |
Successfully created the caching mechanism |
Dr.Pollett suggested me make sure that element caching is done properly in cases with different parameters |
Check the caching technique for different values, create a test project, and write documentation |
| Mar 24, 2009 |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
Spring Break |
| Mar 17, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett regarding the problems I encountered when using the js from cache and decide the plan for the project |
Dr. Pollett has asked to modify the .htaccess file to get the js file from cache |
Work on js cache and w3 validation |
| Mar 10, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett regarding the updated element() |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to modify the code to cache the javaScript |
Work on caching the javaScript, work on using innerHTML for complex data, and work on w3 validation of my page |
| Mar 3, 2009 |
Created a subclass of view file which is an extension to element() |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to modify the extended element() function |
modify the element() function: add caching to the function i.e. if the javascript is cached add the div tag and function to the page |
| Feb 24, 2009 |
Showed Dr. Pollett the function I wrote as an extension to element() in CakePHP |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to create a subclass to the view file and work on modifying the cache() function |
modify the cache() function and replace the code I wrote in element() to cache(); test if the code works |
| Feb 17, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the redirection code written to test the browser's javascript |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to use jQuery instead of innerHTML |
work on jQuery and work on making extensions to element() in CakePHP |
| Feb 10, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the test - detecting browsers javascript |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to redirect the web page on javascript off |
Change code and write a script that places the element content in div tag |
| Feb 3, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the Deliverabele 1 - Work on modifying renderElement() in CakePHP |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to write a web page that test if the browsers javascript is on/off |
Understand the renderElement() and how it works with the views |
| Jan 27, 2009 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the cs298 Proposal |
Dr. Pollett has suggested me to make few changes in the proposal |
Make changes in the proposal and submit the proposal to DR. Horstmann |
| December 9, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the results obtained in deliverable 4 |
Showed Dr. Pollett deliverable 4 page and CS297 final report. Dr.Pollett has suggested few corrections to deliverable 4 page and CS297 report |
Made the required changes in the deliverable 4 page and the report. Should make sure that all the webpages pass the accessibility check and email Dr. Pollett about the updates. |
| December 2, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the results obtained from saving html page as image |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to create four web pages sharing few components but have different content |
Work on deliverable 4, create deliverable 4 page, and create the first draft of CS297 report |
| November 25, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the graphs obtained using standard deviation |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to redo few of the requests as these fall in the category of outliers. He also asked me to work on Deliverable4 - Observe the download times using yslow having both Squids and Browser caching and also to update the deliverable3 page |
Redo few of the page requests and draw the new graph; update Deliverable3 web page and work on deliverable4 |
| November 19, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the graphs obtained using standard deviation |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to research more about standard devaition and redraw the graphs |
Redraw the graphs in Excel using standard deviation options and think about deliverable4 |
| November 11, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the download time obtained with pages of size 100k and with images of sizes ranging from 10k to 100k |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to take standard deviation of the values instead of finding the total download time, as there are many other factors affecting the behavior of pages from India |
Calculate the standard deviation for each set; Create a graph using Excel and compare them with the previous graphs |
| November 4, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett about the download time obtained with pages of size 10k and with images of sizes ranging from 1k to 10k |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to create pages of size 100k, images ranging from 10k to 100k size; each 10 pages with different text. He has also asked me to create text only pages with sizes ranging from 100k to 200k |
Create all the pages and calculate the total download time for each set. Also create a graph using Excel to have a better idea of the behavior of the pages |
| October 28, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr. Pollett regarding the output from Apache Benchmark |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to create pages of size 10k, images ranging from 1k to 10k size; each 10 pages with different text. He has also asked me to create text only pages with sizes ranging from 10k to 20k |
Create all the pages and calculate the total download time for each set |
| October 21, 2008 |
Showed Dr. Pollett, updated Deliverable2 page and discussed with him regarding the results from Squids on requesting a web page on the server( the picture inside the page was also saved on the server) |
Dr.Pollett has approved my deliverable 2 page. He has suggested me to create a website consisting of 10 pages with same image but different content, write a script that randomly calls different pages, and use apache benchmark to load test the page |
Learn about Apache benchmark, write a script that randomly calls the 10 web pages |
| October 14, 2008 |
Configured Squids to perform load balancing between two servers and showed Dr. Pollett the Log file |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to add an additional page which consists of an image, also stored in the server |
Update content of my Deliverable 2 web page with observations found on Squid serving the new web page |
| October 7, 2008 |
Discussed with Dr.Pollett about how to setup the LAN connection |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to configure Squids to balance load between two servers |
Setup a LAN with two servers and a client, configure client browser to work with Squids, Configure Squids to perform load balancing between the servers |
| September 30, 2008 |
Successfully installed SquidNT, Ran squidclient for http://www.google.com and http://www.squid-cache.org/; showed the log file to Dr.Pollett |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to create a Server/Client setup and to configure squid for load balancing |
Setup a server and client; work on Squid load balancing |
| September 23, 2008 |
Ran the course listing project and showed Dr.Pollett how update, insert and select to database tables have been incorporated in the project, discussed with him regarding the problems during squid installation |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to keep working on squid installation in cygwin or try to use LiNUX. He approved the Deliverable 1 page, hosted in my project page |
Finish configuration of squids |
| September 15, 2008 |
Showed Dr.Pollett how I have traced the uri and function calls; also showed him the course listing website |
Dr.Pollett has suggested me to include one more page in course listiing page which writes into the database and work on squids cofiguration |
Finish course listing page by including edit course details page and configure squids |
| September 9, 2008 |
Dr.Pollett has showed me how to upload my documents to his website, discussed about how to trace the functions in CakePHP source code, showed him how i have traced the functions |
Dr.Pollett has Suggested a different way to trace the functions |
Trace the the functions called in CakePHP source code on web page hit and to make a website displaying the course listing |
| September 2, 2008 |
Made corrections to the proposal, showed the work done in week1 by running the default page for CakePHP |
Dr.Pollett has Suggested few changes in the proposal and asked me to mail my CS297 Proposal to Dr.Horstmann |
Submitted the proposal to Dr.Horstmann and work on tracing the functions called in CakePHP source code on web page hit |
| August 26, 2008 |
Discussed about the proposal |
Dr.Pollett has Suggested few changes in the proposal |
Make corrections in the proposal and install cakephp |
| August 22, 2008 |
Submitted Proposals,Discussed few initial proposals |
Good business Proposals, gave ideas for new Proposals |
Write the new proposals on paper |