Two new apps ready for testing: CPA Search, UW Events
Posted by Jesse Rodgers on June 12, 2006 at 03:57 PM
After a lot of work by both Jackie (last terms student) and Mitch (this terms student) we (CPA) now have a couple apps for testing. The first is the search from the home page that you all know and love. Mitch has rebuilt it using much of the previous code but we now have much better term tracking and cleaner code. It is a little bit faster, switches to Yahoo when Google doesn’t return anything (which has been happening more often than it should), and has faculty and department specific searching. Give it a try:
The second application is like testing two at once. We have a new UW Events system that is built with Ruby on Rails that utilizes a new authetication system called Kiwi that will start to appear in all applications created by CPA with an API for others to use, if they want, in the future.
First off, I know it is slow – FastCGI hasn’t been installed on the testing server yet, so please bare with it. Also, the home page for the events page isn’t much to look at but that is because there aren’t any events that have been approved. The iCal versions (yes you can subscribe to UW Events in the near future) will be empty for now. If you have a UWdir username and password go ahead and give it a try, we need some events submitted to try out the admin section:
There will be loads of documentation about Kiwi, the search, and the events system soon. I just wanted to get this out there now and start hearing back from you guys. There are a few issues we now about but post away any thoughts/issues/etc. By the end of the week we will fix a few things and expand the testing.