Entries Tagged 'kiosk' ↓

I have settled on ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. Why you ask? Well for many reasons! One, it is written well. Lacks all the visual effects, but seriously, who needs those? It is fast, as it uses JSON, and that is a MAJOR surprise, as I figured M$ would be all over using XML. Secondly, if you pair it up with PHP for Microsoft AJAX it just flat out works nicely and costs little effort to write scripts for!

I wrote a few sample scripts using it in less than 5 minutes! 5 minutes!! I cannot stress that enough. I was amazed at the type of complexity I could write in just a few minutes of using it. Now, I am not a “big” M$ fan, but I am willing to give credit when due, and they deserve credit for this. I am truly pleased with the fact it works in Firefox, it works in IE, and it probably works in Opera (though I haven’t tested it). It has files for all languages, to handle currencies, dates, etc. Totally amazing.

I have so many plans on how to use this to perform more advance functionality in several of my applications and best of all, I didn’t have to write my own XmlHttpRequest methods.

cpCommerce
I am not sure what put me in such a great mood Friday evening, but Friday evening I completed 10 known bugs in cpCommerce plus added a new feature. Then to top it off further, I modified my shell script that builds the SVN repository every Sunday morning so it would also build a “diff.patch” file describing the difference between the previous version and the newer version. Then on Sunday it was discovered that a bug dealing with the “discount” feature existed in always providing every customer with a 20% discount on their purchase. Within a few hours, that was fixed and the release file was rebuilt manually so everyone could download the new ZIP file.

kiosk
I also accomplished a lot in kiosk over the weekend too. Finalized some of the installation processes, and started working heavily on the modules in the Administration Control Panel. I also refined major parts of the framework to fit better with the overall goal of being a “plug-n-play template system.”

Linux
Finally, I have been spending my weekend trying to get my media center PC up and running again after a Ubuntu upgrade. Not sure what caused the FREAKIN’ issue, but I am not very appreciative about it. Overall, this is the first day I have tried to fix it since I discovered it being down on Saturday morning, so it might not really be a “major” issue.

I couldn’t be more pleased with how well my new project is going. kiosk is advancing nicely and it seems to be getting better each day I work on it. For the most part, almost all of the tables are setup (I am now at approximately 43 tables). All of the base classes are written and their private variables defined, however, the methods/functions still need written for almost all of them.

The installation process is what I am most proud of. So far, it works like a charm. All I have left for the Installer is the “Configuration” section. It will be a while before that section is complete, as I have a feeling, as I write the rest of the application, more settings will be needed.
To help feed your thirst on what kiosk looks like and the tables it consists of, enjoy the screenshots below.

Now, you didn’t think I would show you my “real” email address did you? Oh, and here are the screenshots if you were to revisit the prior installation pages:

Hope you enjoyed those!