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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.

This week was really busy for me, I had a lot of tasks to get done this week at work and just added another big one I would like to have completed before I go on Vacation next Friday.

Aside from that though, I also had a lot of things going on at home. I have been prolonging fixing my main system as it continuously frustrated me, but today I decided to give it another try and to get the second power supply to properly control my hard drives, while my main power supply powered the motherboard and video card. FINALLY today it worked! Now my main system finally has all its hard drives running which is sitting at a total of 5 right now, in a while, I will be adding more, but 5 is good.

I also got my secondary system (used for development/testing of Linux updates before preforming them on my main machine) up and running today with a major overhaul. I also have two 120 GB drives in there for storage as well and I am thinking I will mirror them and use it for backups, but that will be decided later. Right now, I have it installing Feisty (https://wiki.kubuntu.org/FeistyFawn/Herd1/Kubuntu) as I want to see what eye candy comes out of it and see if I want it on my main machine.

Also, cpCommerce released v1.0.4 this week! I re-added the MySQLi support. It also has several fixes by other members who spent countless hours learning how to use SVN and contribute to fixing the bugs.

Well, I really do not have anything more to add at this moment. I am looking forward to a 4 day work week and then I will be gone for 8 days as I am going down to TN for Christmas (I may even take Kami - my wife along… hehe).

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!