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I’ve tossed a copy of my senior project up at http://patcavit.com/dev/classfinder/, a quick inspection makes it look like it’s working fine but I can’t say for sure.

For those that don’t know this is an attempt to make the Classfinder tool at Western Washington University not only easier to use but also cleaner and faster with more emphasis on getting out of the way. To that end it has a few features that the original Classfinder doesn’t have, including a freeform search box that will guess what you searched for and dynamic scratchsheet handling. You can add classes instantly without having to go to a seperate page. No screenshots for now.

It’s not the prettiest thing out there but it’s very functional and tries to take better advantage of screen real-estate than the previous Classfinder. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out overall.

I’ve been spending a lot of my time lately working with the CS department to try and hurry the hell up and graduate. I’ve been too lax in the past about not persuing the classes I needed and it has really started to bite me in the ass. I’m already taking one independent study this fall since the class is only offered next spring otherwise. This fall is going to be pretty busy, as I’ll be taking a full credit load while trying to get caught up on all the mayhem the other ResTek WADs have been causing in my absence. Judging by the CVS checkins I’ll be totally lost, should be a good time.

I haven’t had any brainstorms yet as to what I’m going to do this fall, I’ll probably substantially reduce my time spent on ResTek stuff to allow my replacement more work. Maybe I’ll take what I’ve learned at Y! and try and give Surveys an extra polishing. It could certainly use it based on what I remember of the code. Getting the YUI libraries integrated into all of our JS is also going to be a good challenge. While most of what we had was cross-browser, it was more by happenstance than design. Using YUI really helps with that since the libraries take care of all the nasy gotchas without needing any extra code.

Also holy crap there’s two more users now than I had before. Too bad one doesn’t even have any filters set up, oh well.