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High level plan during the summer

• Month of June: Concentrate on WebRTC and Web program
• Month of July: Implement WebRTC video chat and write a tutorial page for the implementation.
• Month of August: Understand the logic of Vioop and hope to add some feature to Vioop
• Month of September: Wrap up WebRTC issues and finish it up: Hade some problem with connection issues due to Mac configuration
• Month of October: Wrap up WebRTC issues and finish it up
• Month of November: Work on Yioop to add a new function.
• Month of December: Preparing Final exams and school is over. Not much work is done during this month.
• Month of January 2019: Try to finish remote video feature of WebRTC.
• Month of February 2019: Be able capture user log info.
• Month of March 2019: Set up Security and Network interface.
• Month of April 2019: Test the whole package and Debug if any issues.

02/12 -  02/18/2019   Things to do

• Determine where to put WebRTC function
• Write a draft plan for this modification
• log in script - how to capture log in info
• session script - how to handle more than one user
• Might consider to build a database for all sign on users
• How to call a new module

02/05 -  02/11/2019   Things to do

• Submitted CS298 proposal.

01/29 -  02/5/2019   Things to do

• WebRTC demo has been approved by Dr. Pollett.
• Updated WebRTC documents to reflect all the changes made
• Clean up the test codes which have been posted to the class Website.
• Officially CS297 has been completed.

01/8 -  01/14/2019   Things to do

• Based on my recent research, WebRTC prohibits using self-signed ssl certs.
• Will upload my file on to some server (AWS or Google) and I chose AWS
• I created an account on AWS and created domain name.
• Waiting for domain name approval
• Once approved, I will create an SSL through AWS
• Will test it after setting up a domain name, and SSL certificate

01/2 -  01/07/2019   Things to do

• WebRTC: Try to determine which features should be monitored using Wireshark.
• WebRTC: Reverse engineer "https://cdn.scaledrone.com/scaledrone.min.js'" to determine how the codes handle remote video.

12/27 -  12/31/2018   Things to do

• WebRTC: Started to look at codes using Wireshark to check if ICE is returning.
• WebRTC: Started to reverse engineer "https://cdn.scaledrone.com/scaledrone.min.js'" to determine how the codes handle remote video.
• The task of dissecting the above codes seems daunting task, yet doable.

11/27 -  12/4   Things to do

• Yioop: Was able to modify to correct line wrapping problem.
• Yioop: Tested the line wrapping problem on a desk top model, but was not able test mobile version.
• Yioop: Will wait until a new semester begins.
• Last meeting for this semester.

11/20 -  11/26   Things to do

• Thanksgiving Break

11/6 -  11/13   Things to do

• Yioop: was able to recreate a scenario where lines do not wrap around when a new line starts.
• Yioop: tried to recreate a scenario where boxes of sub groups are out of alignment. But could not find a case.
• Last meeting before Thanksgiving break

10/30 -  11/5   Things to do

• Start to work on Yioop to enhance group crawls
• Reviewed Yioop codes to see where line wraps are handled
• Reviewed Yioop codes to see where sub group crawls are aligned

10/23 -  10/29   Things to do

• Continue working on making both local and remote videos appear in one browser.

10/16 -  10/22   Things to do

• Try to make both local and remote videos appear in one browser.
• Experience some technical problems for this task.

10/9 -  10/15   Things to do

• Due to a mid-term from other class, not much work was being done during this week.

10/2 -  10/8   Things to do

• To make local video appear inside remote video in the browser
• To make remote video and local video in one browser and having some problem working this phase
• "HangUp" button should work from both clients:
• When either client ends, then both local video and remote video should be closed.

9/25 -  10/1   Things to do

• Made local video appear inside remote video in the browser
• But remote video turns black, need to work on this issue

9/18 -  9/24   Things to do

• The connection problem between two Macs have been resolved:
• The problem was the file "httpd.conf"
• "HangUp" button from local video works

9/11 -  9/17   Things to do

• Try to solve connection problem between two Macs
• Wrap up "HangUp" button issue to make it work

9/4 -  9/10   Things to do

• Stop working with Yioop process
• Revisit the WebRTC VideoChat
• Worked to make HangUp button to close the connection
• Experienced with connection problem between two Macs after installing Xampp

8/27 -  9/3   Things to do

• Stop working with Yioop process
• Revisit the WebRTC VideoChat
• Test the old codes: client.js, index.html, server.js on the new Mac

8/20 -  8/27   Things to do

• Try to understand the process logic of Yioop
• Write documents as I go along understanding the logic

8/13 -  8/19   Things to do

• Re-Download Yioop
• Start to understand Yioop process

8/6 -  8/12   Things to do

• Completed writing WebRTC tutorial pages
• A test run of a simple WebRTC application was not successful.
• Need to rework on three files: index.html, server.js, webrtc.js

7/30 -  8/5   Things to do

• Continue testing of WebRTC video chat application
• I think I am stuck with Signaling Server.
• Opened an account with Google CloudPlan
• Have tried to run on Google cloud Lab5

7/23 -  7/29   Things to do

• WebRTC video chat programs have been written: index.html, and client.js, and server.js.
• I started out on one PC with two browsers which works ok. Now I use two PCs/two browsers and face some challenges.
• WebRTC is harder to implement than many people think, because it involves TURN/STUN servers, signaling server, and JavaScript callBack functions.
• A tutorial page is in progress.

7/16 -  7/22   Things to do

• Write draft codes WebRTC video chat: html, and client.js, and server.js
• Test the code
• Write a tutorial page for videoChat

7/9 -  7/15   Things to do

• To Understand RTCPeerConnection API
• To Understand RTCDataChannel API

7/2 -  7/8   Things to do

• WebRTC
• Study JavaScript
• Study HTML
• Study CSS

6/25 -  7/1   Things to do

• Study JavaScript
• Study HTML
• Study CSS

6/18 -  6/24   Things to do

• Study JavaScript
• Study HTML
• Study CSS

6/11 -  6/17   Things to do

• More study on WebSocket
• Understanding basic Web process
• Review of CSS, and Html5

6/5 -  6/11   Things to do

• Continue working with WebRTC
• Understanding of WebSocket, STURN server
• Understanding signaling process
• Write tutorial pages to explain what is being done

5/28 -  6/4   Things to do

• Continue to work with WebRTC: html5 - do audio part
• Wrote a couple of programs using audio and video tags
• Audio parts requires more work than I thought - STUN sever, socket.io, etc
• Continue to work with WebRTC: html5 - do video part
• Write tutorial pages to explain what is being done.

5/22 -  5/27   Things to do

• AddedJavascript feature to validate Gym equipment
• created a list(or array) to show 20 different equipments
• When a cursor stays on the equipment field, part of equipment list is shown and user can select an entry.
• Added an autocompletion feature to make spelling correct.
• Added an feature to normalize the name field, thus the front and end trailing space is removed
• Started to work on WebRTC: html5 - do audio part

5/14 -  5/22   Things to do

• Problem resolved and now all four functions working in one file:
• Made all four functions working in one file:
• insert function will insert an entry to database
• list function will display all entries including the latest addtion
• edit function will load the selected entry and display it.
• edit function - user has an ability to modify the existing entry (in case spelling error or etc )
• update function will update the selected entry to database
• delete function will deleted the selected entry from db

5/7 -  5/14   Things to do

• Had some problem calling a different function
• insert function worked, but other function had some glitch to call other functions
• continued to solve the problem

4/30 -  5/7   Things to do

• Change database name in capital letters
• Consolidate four different Gym Membership files into a single Php file using function

4/23 -  4/30   Things to do

• Added a few additional features such as list, delete, edit the existing database
• Make these function are called within one php fileA
• Completed Gym Membership project which resulted in four different php files

4/16 -  4/23   Things to do

• Problem with updating database
• Continue working with Gym Membership project

4/9 -  4/16   Things to do

• Could not accomplish much due to 2 midterms

4/2 -  4/9   Things to do

• Start to work on the Gym Membership project
• Continue to study Php, Js, and html codes
• Continue studying CS174 slides

3/26 -  4/2   Things to do

• Created test Html/Javascript code to run on WebRTC.
• Made video function working
• Next goal is to include audio function to the current script
• Finished the first draft of WebRTC documents
• Finished the first draft slides on WebRTC

3/19 -  3/26   Things to do

• Go over CS174 lecture notes and do homework ex 1 & 2
• Be familiar with html, php, and JavaScript codes
• Create a couple test Javascript programs.
• Test the codes if they work
• Finish writing slides on WebRTC

3/12 - 3/19   Things to do

• Could not accomplish too much this week
• Had two mid terms and some Home Work for other class

3/06 - 3/12   Things to do

• Go over CS174 lecture notes and do homework ex 1 & 2
• Be familiar with html, php, and js codes
• Create a couple test Javascript programs.
• Test the codes if they work
• Finish writing slides on WebRTC

2/26 - 3/05   Things to do

• Download Yioop source code from git repository and install it.
• Determine where in the code groups are handled.
• Read WebRTC articles and write draft paper
• Start to write demo slides.

2/20- 2/26   Things to do

• Make Yioop run on my desktop
• Keep one version of Apache
• Understand how Yioop works

2/12- 2/19   Things to do

• As a starting point, work with Yioop
• Upload Yioo on my desktop
• Update my blog

2/06 - 2/12   Things to do

• Decide to work webRTC for CS297 project
• Do Research on webRTC

1/30 - 2/05   Things to do

• Decide a possible topic for CS297 project
• Do Research areas of my interest