The OscarWebApp called Greendepot

So far throughout the development of Wattdepot, there were many struggles. If you look at my previous blogs it would tell you a tale of hardship and pain. Greendepot is an add on to Wattdepot. But instead of just printing numbers to the screen, this project uses a user friendly web page that displays the carbon emission of the given day and displays when a home owner should use electricity, via green, yellow, or red flag.

This project was a very big task. It was hard to implement this project because setting up the build files, hackystat, and subversion took us a lot of time to get them up and running. Although, it was not our fault, hackkystat was giving a lot of errors and that stopped us from moving forward because without hackystat, our work for the project would not be displayed. From the countless time we took looking into the error, we found that it was an update to the site and everything would be normal later. If that was known we would have been able to start the project earlier. With this setback, we now had to rush and make the project.

The group worked very well together. We met during the day and when class was not in session. The build of the project is not so great because of us rushing to get it working.



Above is the work that my group has done. As you can see not much was done in the beginning, (Commit). That was where we were trying to get hackystat and the .xml files working. Then we started on the project and that is where you can see spikes in the build. I really believe that if we were told about hackystat, the project would be complete.

As of now, the web app takes in the user's input and just echos it. But we have the command line printing what is suppose to be in the web app. We could not integrate the output into the web app in time.

The download for our project could be found here.