Web Programming Assignment 4 - Extra Credit

1. Web ProgrammingAssignment 4 - Extra Credit Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 418/518 Fall 2010 Martin Klein <mklein@cs.odu.edu>

2. Questions to ask yourself • Have I completed A4? • Are you sure? • Can I afford to spend time on extra credit? if (true && true && true) { continue(); } else { back_to_A4(); }

3. Extra Credit #1 • Up to 2 points for implementing Google Analytics on your BBS • 1 point: relevant javascript somewhere on your site • 2 points: convincing demo of GA analysis of your BBS during A4 demo • http://www.google.com/analytics/

4. Extra Credit #2 • Up to 4 points for visualization of “social graph” • (obviously) display (as admin): • Users (nodes) • Communication (edges) • Legend • Plus: • Frequencies (width of edges, size of node) • Directions (arrows) • Filter by topic/forum/thread

5. Extra Credit #2 • Example: Map of Science • http://mapofscience.com/ • http://www.lanl.gov/news/albums/science/PLOSMapOfScience.jpg • http://physicsworld.com/blog/graph1997.jpg • http://static.userland.com/rack4/images/lance/ScienceMap001.jpg • Random selection of tools: • http://code.google.com/p/jsviz/ • http://thejit.org/ • http://www.graphviz.org/ • http://www.mapequation.org/ • http://gephi.org/ • http://labs.unwieldy.net/moowheel/

6. Extra Credit #3 • Up to 4 points for implementing backup function incl: • Admin button “Backup” triggering: • MySQL dump • tar and gz sources, dump, README.txt, INSTALL.sh • Email to specified address w/ path to download tar ball • INSTALL.sh • test for Apache, PHP, MySQL installation • includes DB parameters (extra conf file (mybackup.conf)) • mkdir, chmod, etc • assume sufficient permissions, same path env as on mln-web • Written HowTo (README.txt) • GOAL: port your system to mklein-web.cs.odu.edu