Some part of me is definitely a geek. I wound up working more than 14 hours straight today, mostly because I just couldn't stop working on the problem until it was solved, but the problem refused to solve itself.
What I've been doing is creating a trigger definition mechanism using Nevow's LivePage (Ajax) technology. The trigger definition is rather complex. A trigger is basically an event-routing rule, similar to what you see in your mail client's sorting rules.
In this first stage there's just one level of constraint definitions, but eventually the constraints will grow "or" and "and" clauses and allow for defining trees of constraints as a result. To make this work with in-page editing using Ajax, you wind up creating controller objects parameterised in such a way that they can all have unique ids and properly registered callbacks. Getting those to work reliably has been a bit of a pain, and I haven't even tried to run the scripts on IE yet
.The neat thing about the Ajax is that it's giving a very immediate feel. You choose a given state for a given trigger and can immediately see the statistics all modems in that state, you can type in a range for a measured value and see statistics for the modems in that range pretty much instantly.
Of course, thick-clients have had that since day one, but it does make one pause to consider how poor web interfaces really are. Anyway, my brain is fried, so I'll stop rambling now and try to get to sleep.
Comments
2010-08-31 12:04
That template db idea is prett y neat. I have to say it's get ting pretty annoying downloadi ng database backups and [...]
2010-08-23 20:57
Yeah, in a similar boat with t he code I write... upshot, I'v e got some pretty good compat code in snakeoil, just w [...]
2010-08-22 08:40
Yeah, that's what I started do ing (the function to convert t o bytes), as I support down to 2.4. Thing is this is [...]
2010-08-22 06:28
Your blog aparently likes does n't handle the less than char (<) conversion all that wel l.. everything following [...]
2010-08-22 06:24
The annoying thing about suppo rting both py2k and py3k is th at you wind up having to get r ather explicit about you [...]
2010-08-16 00:48
The measure of a man, I have a lways thought, was - that he l oved. And was loved.
2010-08-15 21:28
Hmm, hadn't realized that was what dpush was for. I guess I 'll have to make the trunk a b ranch rather than a chec [...]
2010-08-15 20:43
For what it's worth, newer ver sions of bzr-svn will not remo ve existing revisions from you r mainline unless you ex [...]
2010-08-15 20:40
bzr-svn supports not inserting any unusual revision properti es, it just means that pushing your bzr revisions into [...]
2010-08-15 18:21
Hmm, maybe I missed something there. Do you mean merge supp ort as in being able to pull f rom N branches into your [...]
2010-08-15 17:45
Lack of merge support kills th e main benefit of bzr-svn over just using svk I'd argue. Personally, I'm *extreme [...]
2010-08-15 11:46
You might want to check out hg subversion
2010-07-25 14:02
> and would have no Trac integ ration The trac-bzr plugin[ 1] seems to provide good integ ration between bzr and t [...]
2010-07-13 21:47
I've always been fascinated wi th the Asterisk AMI interface. So much so that I married tha t fascination with the [...]
2010-07-03 21:32
Yes, only references in dicti onaries are replaced, so hold ing references in lists, tuple s, etceteras keeps them alive.