Ryan's Blog

Webfinancial Update

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 18:53:38 -0500

All the stuff I've seen so far looks great. I emailed you all about some ideas for wrapping up and what I think we need to get done yet to be ready for the presentation. I think we are really close and everything is looking good.

Context parsing

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:24:50 -0500

Ok I've tried to implement how you had the sample xml into the engine. Hopefully this will make things a little easier for parsing. http://people.emich.edu/rvandael/449.php & http://people.emich.edu/rvandael/449.php?company=1

Re: Ah yes; now I see what you mean

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:53:21 -0500

I'm not entirely sure what you mean by outputting the data by context. I thought part of the reason we did it this way was to not have to jump back and forth and grab context refs but maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean. Also I don't know if I want to make large changes to the xml structure this late because then we also have to make changes to the javascript to load it. Maybe if you could write some xml in the format you want and I could understand it better and see what you mean.

We've also had the ability to rename tags since iteration 2, and if we rename 2 tags the same name they will appear as one field in the output if that helps with your second problem it is very easy to implement.

Re: Webfinancial data

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:21:15 -0500

I believe what is happening is that I used the start date for the filing date which is the one in July there. If we need that to change to the end date, or forward both dates through or something that can be done. We can talk about how we want to procede with this tonight but I don't think it is a major issue to fix if I'm reading what is going on correctly.

PHP & JSON

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:42:52 -0500

Looks like as of the recently released PHP 5.2 JSON is now included by default. If anyone wanted to look into some server magic with JSON instead of XML.

Update

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:36:40 -0500

Ok, I've made the changes we talked about on Monday. Firstly, the first xml listing is ordered alphabetically now. Also, the type of each filing is forwarded through as well. I modified some of the engine code now so I could remove a bit of the regex string parsing and base it all off the DOMDocument library in PHP now. If you were curious. ;) Anyway here it is.
http://people.emich.edu/rvandael/449.php & http://people.emich.edu/rvandael/449.php?company=1
As always, let me know if you need anything else forwarded through.

Class Tonight

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:08:46 -0500

Sorry for the late notice but I can't make it tonight either. Some important things I have to take care of have come up. Have a good holiday.

Re: Great job Webfinancial

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:11:59 -0500

Tanika's Post Really? First? I thought the competition was pretty tough this round too. Great job to everyone and all teams. :)

Re: Does anyone know how to take the data from XML containing the namespace??

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:05:38 -0500

Namespaces Heh, namespaces are a real pain, in fact that is why we were having so much trouble with our project because each document had like 10 different namespaces. The trouble with doing it in javascript was that it seemed firefox didn't need the namespace tag I believe, but IE did. So that is why I switched over to doing our parsing in PHP and stripping out the namespaces with the domdocument library which handled them better. Usually up in the top of a document is a listing of the namespaces and an url associated with them if you need to call a namespace node that is usually the url you use to define it. But we haven't done much with namespaces in JS lately. Hope that any of that helps.

Concerquest Review

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:30:52 -0500

Nice work. I like the table at the bottom that lists all the events that are being shown. The ability to get more than 10 events is nice too. To make that even easier maybe you would want to implement a paging system or something or maybe at least tell the user how many total events were found. Like the UI everything was simple and strait-forward. Good job.

Kayakers Review

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:25:16 -0500

Very nice progress. I really like the sidebar where you can click and it refocuses on the selected hotel. I got an alert that said it couldn't find an address but I think that is a google maps thing it probably couldn't post it on the map or something. When testing it I was able to put in a return date that was before the departure date too and that seemed to make it load forever. If you have extra time you may want to not allow that to happen or something when the user inputs data. Very good progress though great job.

Eventmaps Review

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:20:43 -0500

Very nice user interface. I really like how the map fills up the whole screen and most of the UI is on that it seems very immersive. Everything worked really well and I didn't find any bugs while using it. It may be nice to move the box listing the events over to the side or something it seems to be just kind of floating in the middle of the map, just a thought. Great job though I really like it.

EducationChuser Review

Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:13:54 -0500

Nice job on iteration 2. I like the interface it is laid out nicely. Everything seems straightforward and user friendly and I didn't run into any major bugs or anything. I couldn't seem to get the keyword box to work though every time I typed something in it just zoomed out to the nationwide map. Other than that everything worked really nice good job.

Yay, new engine version

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:16:17 -0500

Ok, I've updated the engine again.
Changes Include:

It grabs every filing from the instance document now and sorts all the nodes accordingly for you. Not only that but it goes and grabs the date of that filing from the contextref and puts it as an attribute for you right on the filing node.
I added all of the nodes that Tanika and Tony wanted.
I can rename the nodes to anything you like, if they are too long, or if you want to overwrite them if they are the same thing just let me know. For the moment they are still just forwarding the default tag names. But if you want to correlate the things that are the same that is a snap, we can just rename them the same and to you they will appear to be in one node.

Here is a php dump of the array that I'm grabbing tags for at the moment. Key is the tag name, value is the name I send to output, which are all the same for now.


Array
(
    [LongTermDebt] => LongTermDebt
    [StockholdersEquity] => StockholdersEquity
    [Liabilities] => Liabilities
    [Assets] => Assets
    [IncomeLossContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxes] => IncomeLossContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxes
    [InterestIncomeExpenseNet] => InterestIncomeExpenseNet
    [TotalDepreciationAmortization] => TotalDepreciationAmortization
    [TotalCurrentAssets] => TotalCurrentAssets
    [CurrentLiabilities] => CurrentLiabilities
    [CashCashEquivalentsShortTermInvestments] => CashCashEquivalentsShortTermInvestments
    [AccountsReceivableTradeNet] => AccountsReceivableTradeNet
    [InventoriesNet] => InventoriesNet
    [NetIncome] => NetIncome
    [MinorityInterestNetTaxEffect] => MinorityInterestNetTaxEffect
    [PaymentCommonDividends] => PaymentCommonDividends
    [BasicEarningsPerShareNetIncome] => BasicEarningsPerShareNetIncome
    [DilutedEarningsPerShareNetIncome] => DilutedEarningsPerShareNetIncome
    [NetCashFlowsProvidedUsedOperatingActivities] => NetCashFlowsProvidedUsedOperatingActivities
    [NetCashFlowsProvidedUsedInvestingActivities] => NetCashFlowsProvidedUsedInvestingActivities
    [NetCashFlowsProvidedUsedFinancingActivities] => NetCashFlowsProvidedUsedFinancingActivities
    [LiabilitiesStockholdersEquity] => LiabilitiesStockholdersEquity
    [SalesRevenueNet] => SalesRevenueNet
    [GrossProfit] => GrossProfit
    [OperatingProfit] => OperatingProfit
    [InterestExpense] => InterestExpense
    [CashCashEquivalents] => CashCashEquivalents
    [Depreciation] => Depreciation
    [AdjustmentDepreciationAmortization] => AdjustmentDepreciationAmortization
    [ReceivablesNet] => ReceivablesNet
    [AccountsNotesReceivableNet] => AccountsNotesReceivableNet
    [ConvertibleDebt] => ConvertibleDebt
    [OtherNoncurrentLiabilities] => OtherNoncurrentLiabilities
)

Finally, I didn't want to overwrite it since it'd break Tony's nice work with the interface so to access these changes go to: http://people.emich.edu/rvandael/449b.php and http://people.emich.edu/rvandael/449b.php?company=1

Re: financial summary

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:00:40 -0500

Tanika, That is exactly what I need, thanks. These should be in the next version.