Sam will have the exercises we agreed to do available Thursday. Due to a glitch, these things will be ready on Friday.
Hilary is going to be gone for two days in the middle of July. Sarah is going to be gone the Friday and Monday surrounding the fourth of July. Kevin is likely to be gone on one, or both, of those days also. Kevin will be visiting St. Louis again on the following weekend and will thus be out of town on that Friday.
Sam is still unpacking boxes but plans to be in most of next week.
June 30th is Mr. Stone's last official day. He will be around until the fall but then will be leaving for Texas. He will be developing a algorithms book based in Scheme.
For the workshop on July 13th Sam will likely give the demonstration after we've given it to him.
The pointer Perl script add the annotation tags after the end of the headers. The script also correctly handles multi-line headers.
Sarah currently saves the first line of the header. Sam had concerns about the length of that line. He suggested that maybe we store an id number and put that number in the header and also in the annotation file.
Sarah will be looking into algorithms concerning approximate matchings of texts.
Kevin was looking into how people would log in to the system. He was learning Javascript and deciding what is possible with it. It appears unable to load a file from the server as data and not display it. Also to create a dialog box it must either be a form or a prompt dialog. He is investigating ways of getting the information from the prompt dialog back to the Perl script.
Kevin also now has modified the main script to log only specified domains.
Kevin will be working on rewriting the main script in a better programming style. Currently is looks like someone wrote it who was learning Perl, which is correct. He will incorporate subroutines, etc.
Hilary was/is working on setting up a set of sample annotations and the corresponding directory structure.
She also has been working adding the annotations to here tree structure.
Raphen is patiently waiting for Mr. Stone to install the new Java Swing libraries (and the new version of Java). Raphen is currently working on installing a windows version on his home machine. Which by the way is a AMD KS, a pentium II clone, comparable to a PII 233.
Raphen is also currently working through a tutorial on Swing and has put off the AWT until he decides whether Swing is going to work out.
Raphen was concerned about memory usage. Sam advised only using one copy of the data and using pointers to reference subsets of the data.
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