User:Inderpreet/GSoC14/logs

Development Logs

Community Bonding Period

• Explored various options regarding nodejs and non-node frameworks.
• Learnt basics of development with meteor, using templating engines etc.
• Also looked into alternative framework Expressjs.
• Discussed with mentors about the choice of framework.
• Packaged three.js for meteor.
• Ran a simple OBJLoader example in meteor.

Development Period

Week 1

19th May

• Worked on Authentication Module in meteor
• Wrote LogIn, Registeration, Forgot Password and Reset password form templates.

20th May

• Completed the views and helpers for the templates and Added validations to the forms
• Modified the directory structure and read Hacking file again and made edits to my code accordingly.
• Pushed the code to github https://github.com/inderpreetsingh/OGV-meteor. Forgot-password form is now able to send the mails but stuck at an error regarding Reset-Password template.

21st May

• Reset-Password error solved, Authentication is complete now.
• Started looking into file upload. Tried a package called dropzone.js. Published my three.js package https://atmospherejs.com/package/ogv-threejs.

22nd May

• Worked on File Upload module, tried various file upload packages.
• At last settled for packaged named formidable from npm.

23rd May

• Having done the first milestone, today I explored other frameworks and read more about the technologies involved. Did some work in expressJS.

24th May

• Uptil now, I was dealing with file uploader in a separate app, today I ported file uploader to OGV.
• Now we can upload files in OGV, currently any files can be uploaded but will soon change that so that it only accepts .g files.

Milestone Set

• Authentication

Milestones Completed

• Authentication
• Got three.js working with meteor
• File uploader partially completed

Things yet to do

• Improve UI
• Add routers

Week 2

26th May

• The ported file uploader started facing errors, mostly regarding styles. I was unable to apply global bootstrap. I couldn't work much due to some power issues at my home.

27th May

• Today, I improved my earlier file-uploader by removing the dependency from formidable and directly use the 'fs' package.
• As I have time, I am still giving Collection-FS a try, so that I don't miss out on anything useful.

28th May

• Read about meteor collections, started working on file manager.

29th May

• I was unable to work, due to some urgent work at home. Will make up for it by working more in coming time.

30th May

• Completed the new file uploader (except validations), and added it into main code. Looking into rendering part and routers.

31st May

• Added Basic router file.
• Each user will now have it's own folder and uploaded files go there.
• Added more comments in the code.
• Implemented the file extension check, now only .obj files can be uploaded (will restrict that to .g files when I deal with g-obj conversion)
• A bit stuck on how to pass errors from server to client via meteor.

Milestones Set:

• File Uploader

Milestones Completed:

• File Uploader

WEEK 3

This week I have my final exam on 3rd June and 5th June, So will be busy a bit there.

4th June

• Routers integrated, now we have different URLs for log-in, sign-up etc.

6th June

• Solved the problem regarding file uploader errors.
• Worked on adding OBJLoader in OGV.

7th June

• added minimal file manager
• added models collection, now each user has list of models in database
• created the universal header as I showed in mockup
• Unable to send verification email at sign-up.
• added lovemeter to each model (dummy yet).

8th June

• File Manager completed
• Styling of existing components
• Verification email works fine
• uploaded to http://ogv.meteor.com/
• more improvements

Milestone Set:

• File Manager

Work Done:

• File Manager
• UI
• Routing

Week 4

9th June

• Solved some deployment problems with ogv.meteor.com
• Forgot Password form stopped working, so corrected it.
• Added preloader

11th June

• Tried to deploy on my own server (facing problems)
• moved from meteor-router to iron-router

12th June

• Corrected some iron-router problems
• Struggling to get OBJLoader working with meteor

13th June

• Tried a lot to get files from private folder to load, but failed.
• Put a mail in meteor mailing list about it.

14th June

• Added model Viewer, and got it working with OBJLoader. Now we can see the 3d OBJ models rendered in OGV.

15th June

• Improved the way model Viewer looks.

Week 5

16th June

• Improved the menu bar (small fix)

17th June

• Today I was back to hacking file, and added more comments documentation and cleaned my code.
• Added keyboard controls to the model viewer