Wednesday, July 6, 2011
My favorite breakfast at home except potatoes were from scratch and not hash browns, 3 eggs instead of 2. Turned out to be a little too much for me to eat. Telecommute day. Web redesign work: reviewed Gartner document that Michael had sent. Supp app project work in Drupal. This has probably been the roughest day for me on the supp app. I got to a point with Fill PDF that I felt like I was at a dead end. I had tried the two methods suggested for displaying the prereqs page and neither worked. The Viewfield method wouldn't work because the token for the view didn't get exposed and I didn't know how to fix that. It seemed like I would need to dig through the CCK code as well as the Fill PDF code—way over my head. The Custom Token method wouldn't work because it put everything into a single text-only field, but I was working with tabular data. After feeling dejected for a while I realized that I can use the Custom Token method and fake tables by using a monospace font and pad the fields with space characters. It's not ideal, but I know how to make it work, and it's probably good enough for now. We absolutely must launch before July 15, the sooner the better. I got to work on that solution and now have it almost completely done. The school list still needs to be addressed as well as character maximums for all fields. I also added the PharmD payment hook following the receipt of that from Kevin in Accounting. Lunch: leftover one-third of yesterday's burrito lunch. Listserv management. Supp app project work in Drupal. Dinner: large salad leftover from yesterday's dinner. Watched The Simpsons "Donnie Fatso" on Hulu. I didn't like the episode that much. Supp app project work in Drupal. Worked very late. Grocery shopping at Safeway on Taraval. Late meal: 2 slices of leftover pizza, water. Got one and a half loads of laundry done today.