Work has been underway on 'The Generator' now for the last three weeks… we have the first phase of the development completed ready for focus group and internal testing!!! Development progress over this time has been as follows;
| 15th May 2009 | |
| Install virtual desktops and supporting libraries to allow Skype installation. | |
| 14th May 2009 | |
| Started investigate the addition of Skype interface. Problematic as the Skype interface does not run in a headless environment. | |
| 13th May 2009 | |
| AIM, Yahoo, ICQ and MSN configured and tested. Added support for different presence and presence text. This will allow campaigns to alter their presence text and possibly have time based availability. Possibly extend to subject matter as well? |
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| 12th May 2009 | |
| DNS mapped and new services migrated. Minor issue with dynamic image processing. IM server configured and connecting to external systems. |
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| 11th May 2009 | |
Server delivered and managed to complete;
DNS mapping will take place tomorrow. |
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| 10th May 2009 | |
| Validation of Acceptance Test Specifications and User Guides. General bug fixing and tidy up in preperation for new server delivery. Server build, DNS mapping and DB port expected for tomorrow. |
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| 9th May 2009 | |
Completed summary reporting functions. System now produces 4 visual items for each campaign showing;
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| 8th May 2009 | |
| Development of basic Moderate functionality now completed. Messages can be viewed, paged through and marked as accepted or rejected. Also added the ability to view messages that have already beeen moderated but not yet sent. It appears there is a paging bug as present when moderating the last page of messages! |
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| 7th May 2009 | |
| Development and testing of the Campaign module completed. Seed messages can now be added, modified and deleted. Issues with YIM seem to be fixed. Problem related to presence response generated for an 'unregister' presence notification. Yahoo! don't expect to receive said and then go on to bar subsequent connect requests for 5-10 minutes. |
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| 6th May 2009 | |
Development of the Campaign module is almost complete. Currently supports;
Seed Messages module left for later date. |
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| 5th May 2009 | |
Development of the Accounts progressing well. Currently supports;
No access control exists as yet nor the ability to change the account name/description. |
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| 4th May 2009 | |
| Started web site (here!) today. Initial graphics are done and the Ajax request agents have been written and tested. Added little spinny graphic to top right corner of white insert to show the Ajax element is talking to the server.  The spinner was created at AjaxLoad.info |
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| 3rd May 2009 | |
| Integration of Yahoo! Messager connection generating errors at this time. We will continue to tune the connectivity. | |
| 2nd May 2009 | |
| Installation of chat libraries completed including libxmpp and supporting Python libraries. Completed integration of MSN, ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger. | |
| 29th April 2009 | |
| SMS Integration completed. Added +447781484448 and +447781484449 to test campaigns 1 and 2. |
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| 28th April 2009 | |
| e-mail interface completed. Email email2gentor@the-generator.net for test campaign 1 or testc@the-generator.net for test campaign 2. Phase 1 of main message processing engine completed. Processing engine connects to queue and accepts messages. New users are added and message exchange takes place. No welcome message processing actioned as yet. |
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| 24th April 2009 | |
| Test machine built. System is running on a Centos 5.2 virtual host Database built and database table constructed. Message queue installed. Initial messages queues defined and tested. |
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