An overview of

comrad(community radio)

An administrative solution for Boulder’s own KGNU Radio Station.

Tom BuzbeeBryan CallahanEric FreeseStephanie PittsWil St. Charles

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The speakers:….Tom Buzbee

….Bryan Callahan

….Wil St. Charles

….Stephanie Pitts

….Eric Freese

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Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

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Today’s Focus Project Overview

The ClassThe ProblemThe Solution

User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

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The Class Computer Science Capstone 13 student led projects. Other projects:

Dine n’ Dash○ Red Robin

Graphics Programming on a Giant Spherical Screen○ Craft Technologies

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The Problem Radio Station administration is complex

Scheduling showsKeeping show logsScheduling ticket giveawaysTracking underwritingEntering show information…

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The Problem Multitude of techniques to store

informationPaper and PencilPHP DatabasePlaylist entryAdministrative backend

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The Solution Uses of comrad Major Requirements

Uses EnvironmentalFunctional

Conceptual View of comrad

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Uses For recording information related to the

day to day activities of KGNUSchedule showsRecord information about:

○ song plays○ new items○ emergency broadcasting tests○ etc…

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Environmental Requirements Software Environment

Client○ Internet Explorer 8.0○ Firefox 3.0○ Safari 4.0○ Chrome 3.0○ Opera 10.0○ JQuery 1.0○ HTML 4.0○ RSS 2.0

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Environmental Requirements Software Environment

Server○ Linux○ Apache 2.0○ MySQL 5.0○ PHP 5.0

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Environmental Requirements Hardware Environment

Client○ Mac○ PC○ Linux

Server○ KGNU’s current server

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Functional Requirements Role defined user interface Scheduling database (recursive) Events database (time slice) Music Catalog database (music) Interface for:

scheduling showsentering event metadatascheduling recurring events

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Conceptual view of comrad

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Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design

Basic use○ Roles○ Login/Portal

ShowbuilderCalendar

Architecture Software Demo

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Roles

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Login/Portal

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Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design

Basic useShowbuilderCalendar

Architecture Software Demo

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Showbuilder

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DJ’s main interaction with system

Used for adding songs, news, etc. to a show

Dynamic interaction with databases

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Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design

Basic useShowbuilderCalendar

Architecture Software Demo

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Calendar

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WebCalendarUsed as scheduling engineStores recurrence informationUsed for recurrence databaseInterface built in JQuery – Custom for KGNU

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Calendar

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o Used by Schedule Manager to create and change shows and show times

o Week is primary

searchable granularity

o Month makes schedule too full to convey meaningful information

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Calendar

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o Day Navigation

o Levels of granularity allow Schedule Manager to optimally enter schedule information

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Calendar

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o Multitude of show recurrence options available

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Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture

OverviewBreak it Down

Software Demo

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Architecture Overview

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Break it Down – Frontend

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Break it Down – Frontend

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jQuery and jQuery UI for interactive components

Server-side PHP Templates to generate HTML for each pageHeadBodyClose

Break it Down – Music Catalog

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Break it Down – Music Catalog

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Stores music metadata MySQL Tables:

Break it Down – WebCalendar

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WebCalendar Open source, PHP Flattened recurrence information

Informs Event database WebCalendar wrapper

Provides APIUtilizes OOP

○ WebCalendar object○ Event object○ Event iterator

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Break it Down – Events

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Break it Down – Events

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Stores instances Song playsFeaturesEtc…

MySQL

Break it Down – Sync

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Break it Down – Sync

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PHP and Linux time Nightly updates between event

database and WebCalendar Event database populated with two

weeks (months) of WebCalendar information

Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

A day in the lifeCode review

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Software Demo

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Today’s Focus Project Overview User Interface Design Architecture Software Demo

A day in the lifeCode review

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AbstractConnector Abstract class Handles database connection and

disconnection Provides

getDatabase()getIsConnected()

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InterfaceModule Interface class Implement for consistent interaction with

database tables Provides

populate()unpopulate()update()remove()

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Typical Table Interaction Extend AbstractConnector and

implement InterfaceModule User Class

$user = new User();$user_exists = $user->populate();$user->setPassword(‘newP@ssword12’);$user->update();

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Detailed Look at the User ??? NEED ??? Talk about getters / setters of user

class?

>update(); BLAH BLAH BLAHA

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AbstractConnector Revisited Provides consistent connection

$track = new PlaylistTrack($id,

$user);

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InterfaceIterator Interface class Implement to provide consistent access

to arrays of data Provides

hasNext()getItemCount()getNextCount()getNext()

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Typical Iterator Interaction Extend AbstractConnector and implement

InterfaceIterator UserIterator Class

$iter = new UserIterator();while ($iter->hasNext()){

echo $iter->getNext()->getUsername();}

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Template Overview Secure Session / Authenticate Instantiate HeadTemplateSection Instantiate BodyTemplateSection Instantiate CloseTemplateSection

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Initialize Final class Performs initialization and provides basic

framework to get the system off the ground Provides

getProp($key)log($entry)lockDown()setAutoload()

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Hello World Pagerequire_once(‘initialize.php’);// Preprocessing (command execution)$head = new HeadTemplateSection();$head->write();// Load Javascript Libraries$head = new BodyTemplateSection();$head->write();// Body of Page (User Interface)$head = new CloseTemplateSection();$head->write();

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WebCal Final class Interface to calendar engine Provides

insertEventBrute(…)removeEventBrute($id)readEvents($startTime, $endTime)

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WebCalEventsIterator Final class that implements InterfaceIterator Iterates through events given a start time and

an end time Provides simple way to pull all event data

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A Closer Look at the Code…

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Summary Project Overview

The ClassThe ProblemThe Solution

User Interface DesignBasic UseShow BuilderCalendar

ArchitectureOverviewClasses

Software Demo53

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Questions

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