Today we met with RedWhale via conference call to see the prototype design for Artemis.  It was nice looking overall but I can’t really say I was expecting it to be brown.

Everyone was assigned the task of looking it over and gathering some thoughts for tomorrow’s regular team meeting.  I noticed how it was missing activity indicators for AJAX requests and Chara suggested an archer icon.  And it really looks like were gonna need more space or less data in the middle sections.

I found a nice calendar class written in Ruby some time ago, I think we could use that for the visual date stuff.

We had a project meeting today.  Jill and Bill discussed some data issues they found with migrating data from the old schemas into our new schemas.  They said sometimes data would be changed simply to keep analysis scripts from breaking down.  A number of things will need to be researched to fix up the data.

Bill made a comment how I was the “validation king” with regards to form validations.  I never thought of myself that way but I do try make sure and think of every way a form could be misused or broken by a user.  All I can says is “functional tests to the rescue!” 

The design company is taking a bit longer than David anticipated to get the basic design framework back to us for review.  I’m very anxious to see what our project is going to look like.  I hope it’s not green.  I hate green.

Today we had our weekly Artemis developer meeting.  Bill discussed his testing work with the auto_migrations plugin.  Seems it doesn’t handle certain changes made to the schema.rb, such as changing a null field to not null or changing the size of a varchar.  He’s going to try to whip it into shape using the meta data found in ActiveRecord::Base.connection.columns.

Later Jill came into mine and Bill’s office to discuss schema changes with regards to diseases and study groups.  David joined us after a short time.  Looks like we may use a polymorphic association for study_groups and anything connected to it.  Anything can appear under there, including non-disease studies such as ones for the Amish.

A brief discussion on how to pronounce “tuple” also occured.