[Dev-flock] cellphone prototype stage II complete!
Lucy Mendel
lucy at thoughtandmemory.org
Wed May 14 22:26:58 EDT 2008
yo,
I'm happy to report that hooking up the database to the email script is done.
send a text or email to
munin at thoughtandmemory.org
with "nodeid<some node id, the same as reported in the URL
/Main/node/<some node id>" anywhere in the message or subject
and you should receive an email or text back reporting the name of the
node and the average ratings of behaviors (-1's are not shown)
munin at thoughtandmemory.org is hooked up to the production database
query at thoughtandmemory.org is hooked up to the staging database, so
feel free to create fake ratings and fake nodes to test this out. the
thing with emailing/txting query is that i'm developing out of it's
folder on the server, so it might not work sometimes. on the other
hand, you'll get the latest text formatting and node information, plus
fake ratings!
stage III is to improve the message that gets sent back. let me know
your ideas. i want to get something decent but still prototyping. that
is, the features may be small (no querying for 'peanut butter' and
getting back the best three products according to your interest
portfolio and location), but the messages (and error messages) should
make sense and not frustrate users.
ps - 'nodeid' is a must for now since txt and email sends a dozen
header lines about contenttype and other stuff. i wasn't sure if the
message body always comes last. the message bodies of text messages
shows up as Subject, but also as a final message body... carriers
vary. The more messages I get from different carriers the better-- I
always collect debug info.
anyway, part of stage III is making the system lenient in what it accepts.
word,
L.
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