This week I have been learning a lot of random stuff. On my first day of the week, I tried to build the project and run it. I’m really impressed on how the whole thing is built up like login authentication and the interface with google drive. Though the whole Read more
I continued to move all storage related actions to the back-end. The idea is to have a clear separation of front-end (consisting of widgets and callbacks) and back-end (handling of requests). When a complete model is built, the building blocks can be easily replicated and altered to cater for other Read more
Up till now, I’ve spent months of quality time with Wt and gotten quite familiar with it. It has taken care a lot of dirty things for me in the background and at the same time, taught me a lot more about programming in C++. Compromises The application I’m working Read more
Working on Wt::Auth and Wt::Dbo library for the past few weeks have given me another glimpse into a few of the many functionalities built into Wt. This time it wasn’t as simple as just using the member functions that were provided. The problem with using a library in general is Read more
Yay, Oauth feature is working! So previously, I complained that the oauth feature in Wt was not working. It turns out the error was in the redirection endpoint. However, only GoogleService seems to be successful in identifying the user credentials where FacebookService gave a JSON Exception error. This is probably Read more
This week, Dr. Shawn gave me a briefing on my new project. It seems quite a hefty task for me, but I hope I can finish it in time. FYI, I am working on a some sort of online project manager with user identification. The first thing I started working Read more
This week marks another new chapter for me in Aeste as my task is switched to handling the storage backend of the project. I have officially taken over the project from Maisha, now my ex-colleague, who has done a great job in completing the upload/download part for Dropbox. To familiarize Read more
It works! It works! It finally works!! I can say my “Upload/ Download” finally works after weeks of struggling with it. That was a joyous moment for me. This would have my last week fighting to get the feature working. After a lot of trial and error with various syntax and protocols, Read more
As I am progressing, the goal seems to be getting clearer and closer but yet not reachable. My main focus is to enable saving/updating/deleting of files while working on one’s projects. So far my authentication functions smoothly. I am to retrieve access tokens in exchange of the request token in Read more
With one more week down, I seem more focused and result-oriented on my project. Working with this makes me both excited and anxious. At times, whereas the frustration of codes not working becomes immense and adds to the stress while at other times, it acts as a push to do Read more