Infrastructure Change Log
Service update: BrainJogger infrastructure is being replicated in the background for DR/BIA purposes. No service change is expected however, a new client may be required in the future to make use of the redundancy. Contact your DCRE Labs representative for more details. Infrastructure team, 02/06/2022
Various changes since the last build: Reward category now supported in mobile client (add task with negative point values)
Fixed problem with morning report (Daily Bible verse is no longer read first)
"Phase of the moon" is now supported.
(i.e., "What is the current phase of the moon?")
Three new commands, the start of the "Bible support project":
"get random Bible verse - Randomly selects and reads a Bible verse.
"read Bible verse John 3:16" - Will read the book of John, Chaper 3, Verse 6.
"read Bible John chapter 3" - Will display Chapter 3 of the Book of John. If it is too lengthy, only the text will be display.
"Update all late tasks" and "Update all late chores" now sets new due date for tomorrow (instead of today)
(This allows bonus if completed with 24 hours. Otherwise updating is a penalty without possibility of redemption)
Point change: "Move aheads" now cost 10 points (up from 2)
Added Mass-add capability (recommended for PC use)
Added banner bar icons for improved navigation
Corrected due date error (negative due dates) and added color-coding for late tasks.
Corrected behaviour recurrence bug -- Closing a behaviour now awards points, resets the dates (due=1 week, target=4 days) and retains active status
Added new filtering capability -- Can now filter on project name as well as task type.
Work has started on the Android app -- Corrected Google voice input errors
Corrected Bonus Value.
Original code was adding BonusValue to Baseval for a given entry. Two things wrong with that: (1) The original design was for the bonus value to be a multiplier, not just an adder. (That way if we need to change baseline point values, we don't have to recalculate all the bonuses as well). Typical bonus value is 1.5 = 1.5 times the basevalue (or a 50% bonus if finishing the task early). Which leads to problem (2): The database was loading the value as a decimal (which is why every item's bonus was 2 pts instead of 1.5 times the base value.
But, no matter - all is well. or at least better. Bonus value now is a decimal multiplier from base value and the scoring (which hasn't been written as of yet) will nopw work better.
Entries have been broken down into sub components for a much nicer scoring system (which, again, still needs to be written. Maybe I should make that a task... see below)
UI Change: Behaviours have no recurrence therefore no schedule therefore the forward/extend button didn't make sense. Change removed the "forward" icon from action list for immediately recurring items.
Various changes since the last build:
- Corrected URL bug that was preventing "PC" updates (website) from properly sorting column headers
- Adjusted "morning report" to no longer play news casts on weekends that only update M-F
- Adjusted "morning report" to not include news broadcasts before they update for the day (i.e., 8 AM podcasts don't play until after 8 AM)
- Added "Tasks (Mobile)" link to main page for easier access to task list from mobile web browsers
- Improved Wikipedia search functions (no longer case sensitive). Commands are "research quantum entanglement" vs. "full research quantum entanglement" Note: The command is research to read results (versus search which will just do a URL query and display the bing search page)
- Fixed bug in stock price beta code causing some stocks not to have prices (those with a . in their symbol)
- Fixed bug in stock price beta database causing BRK-A to not populate. Coder Comment: Database structure didn't support a single stock prince > $99,999.99. Sorry Warren, our bad.
- Added web search commands to bring up browser on screen ("[search the web|do a web search|search] [for], look up, google XXX") Coder comment: Ironically, due to Google over thinking URL searches, Amadeus uses bing....
(This allows bonus if completed with 24 hours. Otherwise updating is a penalty without possibility of redemption)
Original code was adding BonusValue to Baseval for a given entry. Two things wrong with that: (1) The original design was for the bonus value to be a multiplier, not just an adder. (That way if we need to change baseline point values, we don't have to recalculate all the bonuses as well). Typical bonus value is 1.5 = 1.5 times the basevalue (or a 50% bonus if finishing the task early). Which leads to problem (2): The database was loading the value as a decimal (which is why every item's bonus was 2 pts instead of 1.5 times the base value.
But, no matter - all is well. or at least better. Bonus value now is a decimal multiplier from base value and the scoring (which hasn't been written as of yet) will nopw work better.
Entries have been broken down into sub components for a much nicer scoring system (which, again, still needs to be written. Maybe I should make that a task... see below)
- Task - One time item to be accomplished. Typically has no recurrence, high point value, highe rthan average bonus
- Chore - A recurring task. Has a recurrence entry, system will automagically reset a completed task when it comes due again
- Behaviour - A Chore which has immediate recurrence, can be done multiple times/day for easy points (behaviour modification entries: smile at people, resist the candy dish, etc.) Typically low points but, as Fr Guide Sarucci would say, "it adds up..."
- Reminder - Basically a Task / One time event but system can be more aggressive with the reminders (proactive notification vs. passive presentation)
- Other - because, who knows what else we wiil think up...
UI Change: Behaviours have no recurrence therefore no schedule therefore the forward/extend button didn't make sense. Change removed the "forward" icon from action list for immediately recurring items.