Re: [Tyndale STEP - Programming] History update and thoughts

Had a quick look and it looks brilliant.

I need to do some work on the timeline widget, unless anybody else has found a good timeline widget? The one on the net looks good, and we could use it pretty well I think, but the GWT component doesn't really work, and I'm finding it hard to make head or tail of the GWT documentation.

Also, at the same time, it makes sense to start working on importing all those CSV files into our database in a repeatable way. So a mini project would be to take the CSV file, analyse it, select the destination table and have it import it. Like that we can be playing around with test data, changing, etc to test, but always be able quickly to regenerate it from the provided CSV files.

Anyway, just a thought. I don't think the latter one will be too onerous a task. I'll try and work on the timeline thing cos I have a sample demo working, and therefore just need to tie it in to the GWT side of things...

Chris

2009/10/21 Tyndale STEP Project <TyndaleSTEP@gmail.com>

Colin - congratulations!

Chris - is this the kind of data you need for prototype work?
Do you have access to the History dropbox folder?David IB

At 16:48 21/10/2009, Tyndale STEP Project wrote:
>The first pass of the history timeline is nearing completion. (See the
>dropbox folder.) The remaining things to do are:
>* the Gospels
>* the prophetic books (where we can sensibly date sections of the book,
>so effectively Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel. Ezekiel, Haggai and Zechariah
>are already done.)
>* sort out the intertestamental period. (Hoping to find a single
>sensible source for this, which I haven't done yet.)
>* background outlines of world history away from the "Biblical area"
>* various checks on other sources to confirm dating information. The
>major one here is to ensure we're reflecting scholarly concensus on when
>various books were authored. In general I've been following the IVP
>dictionaries but they aren't always consistent...
>
>There are going to be places where we want more detail than we have at
>present, I think, but it will be easier to ascertain where and how much
>when we have some mockups of the modules as they stand. (I think this
>was planned to happen soon but I can't see anything relevant from the
>programming blog.)
>
>Colin

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