From Joe at kuesers.net  Mon Apr  2 08:30:37 2007
From: Joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 07:30:37 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Lots Getting Done This Week
Message-ID: <36B8EBB9-65BD-47C4-91E5-CBC45A528DAE@kuesers.net>

I'm taking some time off work this week to recover from my Korea trip  
(taking Monday, Tuesday, and Friday off...except for an interview on  
Monday).

During this time, I plan on doing a whole lot on the BookCarnival site.

First I will finalize some of the documents I have been working on,  
then I will tie together some of the code that we currently have, and  
hopefully by the end of the week, you will be able to register, login  
(already working...thanks Josh), and play one of the games.

I'll take my time getting the look and feel worked out, and  
concentrate on getting the site functional first.  Pretty can come  
later.

Thanks for your help, guys.

Joe

From cgallemore at gmail.com  Mon Apr  2 09:32:30 2007
From: cgallemore at gmail.com (Chad Gallemore)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 08:32:30 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Lots Getting Done This Week
In-Reply-To: <36B8EBB9-65BD-47C4-91E5-CBC45A528DAE@kuesers.net>
References: <36B8EBB9-65BD-47C4-91E5-CBC45A528DAE@kuesers.net>
Message-ID: <edf99a4e0704020632q4d6bf356q3d6660f1eac46b78@mail.gmail.com>

Do we have a document that lists some of the functionality that we need
done.  I got the amazon search done (with Josh's help), I don't know if you
have tried it out yet.  I will try and add a text box with a submit button
so you can type in your search and get the results back.  What type of
details about the books do we want to list.  I was thinking the title,
author, description, image, used price, new price.  What do you think?  I
was also thinking about allowing a user to search for similar books, what
are your thoughts on this.  I'll try and get some of this done this week so
I can jump on something else.

-Chad

On 4/2/07, Joe Kueser <Joe at kuesers.net> wrote:
>
> I'm taking some time off work this week to recover from my Korea trip
> (taking Monday, Tuesday, and Friday off...except for an interview on
> Monday).
>
> During this time, I plan on doing a whole lot on the BookCarnival site.
>
> First I will finalize some of the documents I have been working on,
> then I will tie together some of the code that we currently have, and
> hopefully by the end of the week, you will be able to register, login
> (already working...thanks Josh), and play one of the games.
>
> I'll take my time getting the look and feel worked out, and
> concentrate on getting the site functional first.  Pretty can come
> later.
>
> Thanks for your help, guys.
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code
>
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From Joe at kuesers.net  Mon Apr  2 17:28:43 2007
From: Joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:28:43 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Lots Getting Done This Week
In-Reply-To: <edf99a4e0704020632q4d6bf356q3d6660f1eac46b78@mail.gmail.com>
References: <36B8EBB9-65BD-47C4-91E5-CBC45A528DAE@kuesers.net>
	<edf99a4e0704020632q4d6bf356q3d6660f1eac46b78@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5F466515-1E51-42E4-95E9-B37B41EFFE82@kuesers.net>

Chad,

One of my chores this week is to complete that document, but here's a  
quick list of things that need to be done over the next few weeks:
* Research, choose, and implement a credit card service (to pay for  
"tickets" and "raffle tickets")  So far I'm leaning toward a mostly  
home-spun shopping cart (just because that part will be very simple)  
with either authorize.com or paypal as the payment source.  PayPal  
may be the easiest, simply because they have a good API that will  
notify your application when a payment has been completed.
* Implement the ticketing system.  For now, I think this will be as  
simple as linking a user to a number of tickets, with an easy way to  
add or subtract tickets, and check the balance of tickets.
* Implement the raffle system.  This could be a lot of fun.  It would  
tie users to raffle tickets, have the ability to put an item up for  
raffle (a book, typically, with a picture of that book) and have a  
way of randomly selecting a winner.
* Implement the tilt-a-whirl game.  I've already started on this, and  
will hopefully be done with it before the end of the week.  I am also  
finalizing the proposal, completing the database docs, completing the  
wireframes, project research, web page flow docs, and writing some  
letters to publishers regarding the site (asking for free books to  
raffle off and generally drumming up support) so if I don't finish  
the tilt-a-whirl game this week, it's not a huge deal.

As far as how the Amazon search will be used, at this point, I see it  
being used in the games only (for now).  When a user is offering a  
book, they can enter partial information about the book (the ISBN,  
title, whatever) and we can use your Amazon search to find the book  
and fill in the details.  Right now, we'll only need title, author,  
description, image, and genre.  I'm not even sure Amazon has genre as  
one of their fields, so that could be a free-text field tied in to a  
database for auto-complete.  Ideally, the Amazon search would be done  
in an Ajax-ie sort of way, so the form is just magically filled in  
for them and they can say "Wow!  Cool!"

We'll probably want to meet early next week to talk about what has  
been done and what still needs to be done.

Joe


On Apr 2, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Chad Gallemore wrote:

> Do we have a document that lists some of the functionality that we  
> need done.  I got the amazon search done (with Josh's help), I  
> don't know if you have tried it out yet.  I will try and add a text  
> box with a submit button so you can type in your search and get the  
> results back.  What type of details about the books do we want to  
> list.  I was thinking the title, author, description, image, used  
> price, new price.  What do you think?  I was also thinking about  
> allowing a user to search for similar books, what are your thoughts  
> on this.  I'll try and get some of this done this week so I can  
> jump on something else.
>
> -Chad
>
> On 4/2/07, Joe Kueser <Joe at kuesers.net> wrote:
> I'm taking some time off work this week to recover from my Korea trip
> (taking Monday, Tuesday, and Friday off...except for an interview on
> Monday).
>
> During this time, I plan on doing a whole lot on the BookCarnival  
> site.
>
> First I will finalize some of the documents I have been working on,
> then I will tie together some of the code that we currently have, and
> hopefully by the end of the week, you will be able to register, login
> (already working...thanks Josh), and play one of the games.
>
> I'll take my time getting the look and feel worked out, and
> concentrate on getting the site functional first.  Pretty can come
> later.
>
> Thanks for your help, guys.
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code

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From joe at kuesers.net  Thu Apr  5 22:18:26 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:18:26 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Tying Things Together
Message-ID: <4A4CD9BB-498D-40AC-9659-9AFAB24252FA@kuesers.net>

I've started tying things together, and filling in some gaps.

It's a little messy, but I've got it so you can:
1)  Create a game (this will normally be an admin-only task)
2)  Create a game instance (currently you can pick which game the  
game instance is based on, and it is unlimited.  Eventually we'll  
limit it per game)

I will be tying in Chad's Amazon search this weekend.  It's REAL easy  
to use.  The way I intend on having it work is that you will enter  
the ISBN and we will automagically populate the rest of the fields in  
the form.

I also got a basic "welcome" page done that pulls in Josh's login form.

Finally, I've started on a user home page sort of thing.

I'm not ready to check any of this fun stuff in yet, but will check  
in parts of it tomorrow.  Then Monday or Tuesday we can meet to  
figure out where to go next.

You know what...I'll go ahead and check in the welcome page and user  
home page parts.  Those might be good places for you guys to play  
around if you want to.  My thinking there being that if a user is  
logged in when they go to the site's root, they'll be taken to their  
home page.  If they are not logged in, they will stay at the welcome  
page.

The welcome page will just give some basic information about the  
site, and have links to other public areas (like register, login,  
contact us, and get involved).

The user's home page can for now just show their book exchange  
statuses, # of tickets, etc.

Oh, we also need to worry about the raffle, tickets, and credit card  
stuff soon.

By the way, I searched for "ruby amazon plugin" to figure out how to  
install that puppy, and our mailing list was the #2 hit.  Sweet!

Thanks for your help.

Joe

From joe at kuesers.net  Sun Apr  8 09:22:13 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:22:13 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Fwd: Rate These Templates
References: <F21427D8-A770-4EBE-96F9-868A4EE4ECDA@kuesers.net>
Message-ID: <09ADFD8E-B3B2-4C30-B993-087246F96EC6@kuesers.net>

Well, I tried to send this yesterday, but it didn't seem to go  
through.  (I didn't see it in my inbox or in the list's archives)   
So, let's try this again!

Joe



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net>
> Date: April 7, 2007 4:01:04 PM CDT
> To: bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> Subject: Rate These Templates
>
> I'm trying to save us a little work by finding an existing template  
> we can use for the site.
>
> Please rank these from 1 to 6.  1 being your favorite, 6 being your  
> least favorite.  (Currently they are in alphabetical order, so you  
> can't use that :-)
>
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/integral
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/isometric
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/newfangled
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/theacmegroup
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/thunder
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/traditionalist
>
> Or if you have other ideas, I'd love to hear that.
>
> In case you can't figure it out from my 6 choices there, I'm  
> basically looking for clean and colorful.
>
> Joe

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From joe at kuesers.net  Sat Apr  7 17:01:04 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 16:01:04 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Rate These Templates
Message-ID: <F21427D8-A770-4EBE-96F9-868A4EE4ECDA@kuesers.net>

I'm trying to save us a little work by finding an existing template  
we can use for the site.

Please rank these from 1 to 6.  1 being your favorite, 6 being your  
least favorite.  (Currently they are in alphabetical order, so you  
can't use that :-)

http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/integral
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/isometric
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/newfangled
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/theacmegroup
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/thunder
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/traditionalist

Or if you have other ideas, I'd love to hear that.

In case you can't figure it out from my 6 choices there, I'm  
basically looking for clean and colorful.

Joe
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From cgallemore at gmail.com  Sun Apr  8 11:55:32 2007
From: cgallemore at gmail.com (Chad Gallemore)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 10:55:32 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Rate These Templates
In-Reply-To: <F21427D8-A770-4EBE-96F9-868A4EE4ECDA@kuesers.net>
References: <F21427D8-A770-4EBE-96F9-868A4EE4ECDA@kuesers.net>
Message-ID: <edf99a4e0704080855y5058582t1f0e637a290b00cd@mail.gmail.com>

1.  Thunder
2.  Integral
3.  Traditionalist
4.  New Fangled
5.  The Acme Group
6.  Isometric

On 4/7/07, Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to save us a little work by finding an existing template we can
> use for the site.
> Please rank these from 1 to 6.  1 being your favorite, 6 being your least
> favorite.  (Currently they are in alphabetical order, so you can't use that
> :-)
>
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/integral
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/isometric
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/newfangled
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/theacmegroup
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/thunder
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/traditionalist
>
> Or if you have other ideas, I'd love to hear that.
>
> In case you can't figure it out from my 6 choices there, I'm basically
> looking for clean and colorful.
>
> Joe
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code
>
>
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From joe at kuesers.net  Sun Apr  8 23:07:55 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:07:55 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Tying Things Together
In-Reply-To: <4A4CD9BB-498D-40AC-9659-9AFAB24252FA@kuesers.net>
References: <4A4CD9BB-498D-40AC-9659-9AFAB24252FA@kuesers.net>
Message-ID: <F1489E24-E7FB-4094-ACBC-ADD40E27F7F2@kuesers.net>

Ok, I lied.

I wasn't able to get much of anything done this weekend, because I  
had some real school work to do, and my wife and kids kept me busy  
the rest of the time.

I do plan on spending 2 to 4 hours a night, every night for the next  
3 weeks working on this stuff, so we should see some stuff shaping up  
pretty quickly.

Let's plan on meeting some time during the week to get in sync.  I  
have a sprint review Monday, and sprint planning on Tuesday, but am  
free the rest of the week.  (There is an Agitar follow-up scheduled  
on Friday that I should probably go to as well.)

Joe



On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Joe Kueser wrote:

> I've started tying things together, and filling in some gaps.
>
> It's a little messy, but I've got it so you can:
> 1)  Create a game (this will normally be an admin-only task)
> 2)  Create a game instance (currently you can pick which game the
> game instance is based on, and it is unlimited.  Eventually we'll
> limit it per game)
>
> I will be tying in Chad's Amazon search this weekend.  It's REAL easy
> to use.  The way I intend on having it work is that you will enter
> the ISBN and we will automagically populate the rest of the fields in
> the form.
>
> I also got a basic "welcome" page done that pulls in Josh's login  
> form.
>
> Finally, I've started on a user home page sort of thing.
>
> I'm not ready to check any of this fun stuff in yet, but will check
> in parts of it tomorrow.  Then Monday or Tuesday we can meet to
> figure out where to go next.
>
> You know what...I'll go ahead and check in the welcome page and user
> home page parts.  Those might be good places for you guys to play
> around if you want to.  My thinking there being that if a user is
> logged in when they go to the site's root, they'll be taken to their
> home page.  If they are not logged in, they will stay at the welcome
> page.
>
> The welcome page will just give some basic information about the
> site, and have links to other public areas (like register, login,
> contact us, and get involved).
>
> The user's home page can for now just show their book exchange
> statuses, # of tickets, etc.
>
> Oh, we also need to worry about the raffle, tickets, and credit card
> stuff soon.
>
> By the way, I searched for "ruby amazon plugin" to figure out how to
> install that puppy, and our mailing list was the #2 hit.  Sweet!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code


From jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com  Mon Apr  9 12:27:55 2007
From: jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com (Josh Hoover)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 09:27:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Tying Things Together
Message-ID: <217817.30686.qm@web37212.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Shall we meet on Wed. this week during lunch?  Sooner the better since it's been a while.  I've been slacking on it lately.

----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net>
To: bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
Sent: Sunday, April 8, 2007 10:07:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Bookcarnival-code] Tying Things Together

Ok, I lied.

I wasn't able to get much of anything done this weekend, because I  
had some real school work to do, and my wife and kids kept me busy  
the rest of the time.

I do plan on spending 2 to 4 hours a night, every night for the next  
3 weeks working on this stuff, so we should see some stuff shaping up  
pretty quickly.

Let's plan on meeting some time during the week to get in sync.  I  
have a sprint review Monday, and sprint planning on Tuesday, but am  
free the rest of the week.  (There is an Agitar follow-up scheduled  
on Friday that I should probably go to as well.)

Joe



On Apr 5, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Joe Kueser wrote:

> I've started tying things together, and filling in some gaps.
>
> It's a little messy, but I've got it so you can:
> 1)  Create a game (this will normally be an admin-only task)
> 2)  Create a game instance (currently you can pick which game the
> game instance is based on, and it is unlimited.  Eventually we'll
> limit it per game)
>
> I will be tying in Chad's Amazon search this weekend.  It's REAL easy
> to use.  The way I intend on having it work is that you will enter
> the ISBN and we will automagically populate the rest of the fields in
> the form.
>
> I also got a basic "welcome" page done that pulls in Josh's login  
> form.
>
> Finally, I've started on a user home page sort of thing.
>
> I'm not ready to check any of this fun stuff in yet, but will check
> in parts of it tomorrow.  Then Monday or Tuesday we can meet to
> figure out where to go next.
>
> You know what...I'll go ahead and check in the welcome page and user
> home page parts.  Those might be good places for you guys to play
> around if you want to.  My thinking there being that if a user is
> logged in when they go to the site's root, they'll be taken to their
> home page.  If they are not logged in, they will stay at the welcome
> page.
>
> The welcome page will just give some basic information about the
> site, and have links to other public areas (like register, login,
> contact us, and get involved).
>
> The user's home page can for now just show their book exchange
> statuses, # of tickets, etc.
>
> Oh, we also need to worry about the raffle, tickets, and credit card
> stuff soon.
>
> By the way, I searched for "ruby amazon plugin" to figure out how to
> install that puppy, and our mailing list was the #2 hit.  Sweet!
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code

_______________________________________________
Bookcarnival-code mailing list
Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code




From joe at kuesers.net  Tue Apr 10 00:44:29 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:44:29 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Got AJAX Book Lookup Working
Message-ID: <7B717636-8698-4595-A3E9-51767B61A22B@kuesers.net>

Things are still not perfect, but now you can at least see what's  
going down.

First go here:
http://localhost:3000/ and log in. (or create a user, or whatever)

Then go here:
http://localhost:3000/game/ and create a new game with name "Tilt-A- 
Whirl" and whatever rules, etc. you want to give it.

then go to:
http://localhost:3000/tiltawhirl/

And create a new game instance.  Pick "Tilt-A-Whirl" for your game,  
and give it whatever description, etc. you want.

Finally, that should take you to http://localhost:3000/tiltawhirl/ 
offer/1

Enter the ISBN for the nearest book and hit the "find" button.

It should use Chad's Amazon service to grab that book and populate  
the fields.

(Right now, it is assumed that the ISBN will uniquely identify a  
book, so the first book in the list is returned.)

Joe
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From joe at kuesers.net  Wed Apr 11 20:48:49 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 19:48:49 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] New Ruby IDE (NetBeans!?!)
Message-ID: <F7A88E64-68EA-4412-A979-BB126982E8AC@kuesers.net>

I think it's a little weird, and a little telling that Sun has  
released a Ruby plugin for the NetBeans IDE.

http://www.ftponline.com/channels/java/2007%5F04/jwaters2/

It's a weird thing going on with Sun...

An article from a Sun certified developer on developing a MVC app  
with Rails (with a few comparisons to J2EE)
http://www.ftponline.com/channels/web/2007_03/dvohra/default.aspx

Next, another article on Sun including extensive Ruby support in  
NetBeans
http://www.ftponline.com/weblogger/forum.aspx? 
ID=13&DATE=03/13/2007&blog=#729

Then a mailing list that normally informs me of new Java technologies  
sent me this article on building a Wiki with Rails:
http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/34200

Finally, the plot thickens...

Sun hired two developers of the open source JRuby (a Java-based Ruby  
interpreter) and are paying them to work full-time to work on JRuby.

http://jruby.codehaus.org/

Why is the Java community, Sun included, pushing Ruby on Rails?
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From joe at kuesers.net  Thu Apr 12 07:53:55 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 06:53:55 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] Rate These Templates
In-Reply-To: <edf99a4e0704080855y5058582t1f0e637a290b00cd@mail.gmail.com>
References: <F21427D8-A770-4EBE-96F9-868A4EE4ECDA@kuesers.net>
	<edf99a4e0704080855y5058582t1f0e637a290b00cd@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0FB19B32-F810-42AA-AE0E-5E90472A8253@kuesers.net>

I really like the template that the Ruby site uses.  We could borrow  
some of the colors from there, though the layout will be different.

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/ruby-from-other-languages/ 
to-ruby-from-java/

Oh, good article there too :-)


On Apr 8, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Chad Gallemore wrote:

> 1.  Thunder
> 2.  Integral
> 3.  Traditionalist
> 4.  New Fangled
> 5.  The Acme Group
> 6.  Isometric
>
> On 4/7/07, Joe Kueser < joe at kuesers.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to save us a little work by finding an existing template  
> we can use for the site.
>
> Please rank these from 1 to 6.  1 being your favorite, 6 being your  
> least favorite.  (Currently they are in alphabetical order, so you  
> can't use that :-)
>
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/integral
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/isometric
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/newfangled
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/theacmegroup
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/thunder
> http://www.freecsstemplates.org/preview/traditionalist
>
> Or if you have other ideas, I'd love to hear that.
>
> In case you can't figure it out from my 6 choices there, I'm  
> basically looking for clean and colorful.
>
> Joe
>
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From joe at kuesers.net  Sun Apr 15 11:43:15 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:43:15 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] How Should Raffles Work?
Message-ID: <3AD26900-12D4-49CB-96B5-9FB069B81D27@kuesers.net>

I've been giving the raffles a little thought, and here's what I came  
up with.

First, as a reminder, here's the idea of what the raffles are.

Once a week, the site will raffle off a new book, best seller, rare  
book, or autographed book.  The new and best seller books will be  
easy, we can just pick them of from the local book store, or from  
Amazon.com.  We may even be able to swing a discount from either of  
these.  The rare and autographed books will come later as the site  
establishes itself, and will likely be donations from publishers or  
members.

Members will purchase raffle tickets, at $1 each.  At the end of the  
week, we will pick the winner.  We could either create a program that  
will do this for us, or put a bunch of tickets into a hat or tumbler  
or whatever and pick it that way.  Computers aren't very random, so  
picking the names from a hat would seem more fair.  We could even go  
so far as getting real raffle tickets and a tumbler and take pictures  
of the drawing, etc.  Once the site gets big enough, we could have  
multiple raffles per week, and even have live raffles, where we sell  
real tickets at schools, book stores, church events, etc.  That's  
when we start pulling in real money, and are really able to make a  
difference for literacy organizations, schools, and libraries.   
Imagine having 10 books up in a raffle, and selling tickets for the  
raffles world-wide, both on and off-line.  If we had even just 250  
members, and each of them sold on average 10 raffle tickets, we just  
made $2,500 for some literacy organization.

Ok, back to reality for a second.  Once a month, the proceeds from  
the raffle would go to the site.  This would pay for the web hosting,  
software or clipart or whatever we need to buy, and maybe a few bucks  
as a part-time salary for "employees".  In short, it would go into  
the site's bank account, and would be used as needed.  The rest of  
the month, 100% of the proceeds would go to a literacy organization,  
school, or library of the winner's choice (though their choice could,  
and often will be "you pick").

So, what would the database need for these raffles?  Here's what I  
have so far.

A table called "Raffles" with the following columns:
- ID
- Item Name
- Item Description
- Item Image
- Start Date
- End Date
- Proceed Designation
- Proceeds Total (could be derived from another table)
- Winner ID
- Status ID

A table called "Raffle Status" with the following columns:
- ID
- Status Name (Open, Close, Item Sent, etc.)

A table called "Raffle Transactions" with the following columns:
- ID (ticket id)
- Raffle ID
- User ID
- Date

Whatever shopping cart we come up with would have a raffle ticket as  
an item for sale, for $1 each.  Users could purchase as many raffle  
tickets as they want.

Another option would be to allow a user to convert game tickets to  
raffle tickets.  Maybe 5 game tickets for 1 raffle ticket, or  
something along those lines.

What do you think?

Joe

From joe at kuesers.net  Sun Apr 15 11:48:56 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:48:56 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
Message-ID: <217EF20B-6495-439D-A381-F8069E525150@kuesers.net>

I was thinking about this the other day, but am not sure if I ever  
sent it out.  I'm too lazy to check my inbox or sent items, so I'll  
assume I didn't.

I was thinking that it probably doesn't make sense to bring the site  
live until it is truly ready to be live.  Before that happens, I  
think we need:
1) At least 3 games in place
2) The tickets and raffle tickets set up
3) A way to accept credit card purchases
4) A nonprofit organization, and its bank account set up
5) A solid site.

I have no timetable for all of this.  I think the site should go live  
when its ready, whether that's 6 weeks from now or 6 months from now.

Since we're all still learning, I think it would be a great idea to  
take some time to pair/group program on this stuff.  Maybe instead of  
meeting (sometimes) once a week, we should meet a few days a week  
over lunch?  Or have like a 3 or 4 hour meeting one night a week?   
Maybe take one or two areas a week and focus on working together to  
get it done.

What do you think?

Joe

From cgallemore at gmail.com  Sun Apr 15 20:14:20 2007
From: cgallemore at gmail.com (Chad Gallemore)
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:14:20 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
In-Reply-To: <217EF20B-6495-439D-A381-F8069E525150@kuesers.net>
References: <217EF20B-6495-439D-A381-F8069E525150@kuesers.net>
Message-ID: <edf99a4e0704151714g5052f0b3ya83209bc7c69dfd9@mail.gmail.com>

Sounds good to me.  I like the idea of pairing up and meeting a little more
frequent.  I up for anything.

On 4/15/07, Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net> wrote:
>
> I was thinking about this the other day, but am not sure if I ever
> sent it out.  I'm too lazy to check my inbox or sent items, so I'll
> assume I didn't.
>
> I was thinking that it probably doesn't make sense to bring the site
> live until it is truly ready to be live.  Before that happens, I
> think we need:
> 1) At least 3 games in place
> 2) The tickets and raffle tickets set up
> 3) A way to accept credit card purchases
> 4) A nonprofit organization, and its bank account set up
> 5) A solid site.
>
> I have no timetable for all of this.  I think the site should go live
> when its ready, whether that's 6 weeks from now or 6 months from now.
>
> Since we're all still learning, I think it would be a great idea to
> take some time to pair/group program on this stuff.  Maybe instead of
> meeting (sometimes) once a week, we should meet a few days a week
> over lunch?  Or have like a 3 or 4 hour meeting one night a week?
> Maybe take one or two areas a week and focus on working together to
> get it done.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code
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From jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 18 16:36:47 2007
From: jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com (Josh Hoover)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:36:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
Message-ID: <840047.12830.qm@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi Joe,

Sorry for the lack of communication.  I know for the guys on the NCT 1 team here at Gestalt, it's been a wicked past couple of weeks and will continue to be until JavaOne happens (May 7th.)  For me, while I've been pretty busy at work, I've also been busy moving and getting into the new house.  Things are finally starting to settle down so I can definitely start to focus more on this project. 

I'm all for meeting during lunch multiple times a week and coding.  If it's just you and me for the next couple of weeks, that should be fine.

Josh

----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net>
To: bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:48:56 AM
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project

I was thinking about this the other day, but am not sure if I ever  
sent it out.  I'm too lazy to check my inbox or sent items, so I'll  
assume I didn't.

I was thinking that it probably doesn't make sense to bring the site  
live until it is truly ready to be live.  Before that happens, I  
think we need:
1) At least 3 games in place
2) The tickets and raffle tickets set up
3) A way to accept credit card purchases
4) A nonprofit organization, and its bank account set up
5) A solid site.

I have no timetable for all of this.  I think the site should go live  
when its ready, whether that's 6 weeks from now or 6 months from now.

Since we're all still learning, I think it would be a great idea to  
take some time to pair/group program on this stuff.  Maybe instead of  
meeting (sometimes) once a week, we should meet a few days a week  
over lunch?  Or have like a 3 or 4 hour meeting one night a week?   
Maybe take one or two areas a week and focus on working together to  
get it done.

What do you think?

Joe
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From joe at kuesers.net  Wed Apr 18 16:49:27 2007
From: joe at kuesers.net (Joe Kueser)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:49:27 -0500
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
In-Reply-To: <840047.12830.qm@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <840047.12830.qm@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <387F5C52-6395-498D-BAE5-3E1C735EC2FB@kuesers.net>

No worries.  Work has to come first. Work, then family, then the  
project :-D

As far as the school project goes, my professor is impressed with  
what has been done so far, and sees a lot of logic in waiting until  
the site is ready and the nonprofit is in place before going live.  I  
have a handful of things that I want to get done before turning the  
project in and calling it "done", but that's not anything for anyone  
to worry about but me.  It probably helps that he's a big fan of the  
idea.

On a different note: I picked up a pretty cool book that will help me  
in putting together a RoR brownbagger.  "Rails for Java Developers".   
So if you want to sign me up for a RoR brownbagger, go for it.  Maybe  
we should wait until JavaOne is done so the NCT guys can participate  
too.  I figure I can run through the creation of a super simple Rails  
application (a 15 minute address book or something), and then do a  
Java to Rails comparison.

Joe




On Apr 18, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Josh Hoover wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> Sorry for the lack of communication.  I know for the guys on the  
> NCT 1 team here at Gestalt, it's been a wicked past couple of weeks  
> and will continue to be until JavaOne happens (May 7th.)  For me,  
> while I've been pretty busy at work, I've also been busy moving and  
> getting into the new house.  Things are finally starting to settle  
> down so I can definitely start to focus more on this project.
>
> I'm all for meeting during lunch multiple times a week and coding.   
> If it's just you and me for the next couple of weeks, that should  
> be fine.
>
> Josh
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net>
> To: bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:48:56 AM
> Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
>
> I was thinking about this the other day, but am not sure if I ever
> sent it out.  I'm too lazy to check my inbox or sent items, so I'll
> assume I didn't.
>
> I was thinking that it probably doesn't make sense to bring the site
> live until it is truly ready to be live.  Before that happens, I
> think we need:
> 1) At least 3 games in place
> 2) The tickets and raffle tickets set up
> 3) A way to accept credit card purchases
> 4) A nonprofit organization, and its bank account set up
> 5) A solid site.
>
> I have no timetable for all of this.  I think the site should go live
> when its ready, whether that's 6 weeks from now or 6 months from now.
>
> Since we're all still learning, I think it would be a great idea to
> take some time to pair/group program on this stuff.  Maybe instead of
> meeting (sometimes) once a week, we should meet a few days a week
> over lunch?  Or have like a 3 or 4 hour meeting one night a week?
> Maybe take one or two areas a week and focus on working together to
> get it done.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code
>
>
>


From jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com  Wed Apr 18 16:54:14 2007
From: jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com (Josh Hoover)
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:54:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
Message-ID: <780476.18758.qm@web37213.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Sounds good.  Can you come up with an outline for the brown bagger and then we'll pick a date that looks good?  I'll also provide tissues for after the brown bagger, when all of those with Java web dev experience shed many tears.

----- Original Message ----
From: Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net>
To: Josh Hoover <jhoover6672000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 3:49:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project

No worries.  Work has to come first. Work, then family, then the  
project :-D

As far as the school project goes, my professor is impressed with  
what has been done so far, and sees a lot of logic in waiting until  
the site is ready and the nonprofit is in place before going live.  I  
have a handful of things that I want to get done before turning the  
project in and calling it "done", but that's not anything for anyone  
to worry about but me.  It probably helps that he's a big fan of the  
idea.

On a different note: I picked up a pretty cool book that will help me  
in putting together a RoR brownbagger.  "Rails for Java Developers".   
So if you want to sign me up for a RoR brownbagger, go for it.  Maybe  
we should wait until JavaOne is done so the NCT guys can participate  
too.  I figure I can run through the creation of a super simple Rails  
application (a 15 minute address book or something), and then do a  
Java to Rails comparison.

Joe




On Apr 18, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Josh Hoover wrote:

> Hi Joe,
>
> Sorry for the lack of communication.  I know for the guys on the  
> NCT 1 team here at Gestalt, it's been a wicked past couple of weeks  
> and will continue to be until JavaOne happens (May 7th.)  For me,  
> while I've been pretty busy at work, I've also been busy moving and  
> getting into the new house.  Things are finally starting to settle  
> down so I can definitely start to focus more on this project.
>
> I'm all for meeting during lunch multiple times a week and coding.   
> If it's just you and me for the next couple of weeks, that should  
> be fine.
>
> Josh
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joe Kueser <joe at kuesers.net>
> To: bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 10:48:56 AM
> Subject: [Bookcarnival-code] State of the Project
>
> I was thinking about this the other day, but am not sure if I ever
> sent it out.  I'm too lazy to check my inbox or sent items, so I'll
> assume I didn't.
>
> I was thinking that it probably doesn't make sense to bring the site
> live until it is truly ready to be live.  Before that happens, I
> think we need:
> 1) At least 3 games in place
> 2) The tickets and raffle tickets set up
> 3) A way to accept credit card purchases
> 4) A nonprofit organization, and its bank account set up
> 5) A solid site.
>
> I have no timetable for all of this.  I think the site should go live
> when its ready, whether that's 6 weeks from now or 6 months from now.
>
> Since we're all still learning, I think it would be a great idea to
> take some time to pair/group program on this stuff.  Maybe instead of
> meeting (sometimes) once a week, we should meet a few days a week
> over lunch?  Or have like a 3 or 4 hour meeting one night a week?
> Maybe take one or two areas a week and focus on working together to
> get it done.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Joe
> _______________________________________________
> Bookcarnival-code mailing list
> Bookcarnival-code at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/bookcarnival-code
>
>
>