User guide
As this is a web application, firstly you need to start the
servlet server and then access to the server through a
web navigator (as Netscape, for example)
Starting the server
If you have Tomcat installed in /usr/local/tomcat4b6,
the best way to start it is:
$ cd /usr/local/tomcat4b6
$ bin/catalina.sh run
The you'll after some seconds, see something like
Guessing CATALINA_HOME from catalina.sh to bin/..
Setting CATALINA_HOME to bin/..
Using CLASSPATH: bin/../bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/java/lib/tools.jar
Using CATALINA_HOME: bin/..
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.0-b6
Accessing from web navigator
Type the next URL from your navigator:
http://localhost:8080/time/plan
(if you have Tomcat without changes over the original installation)
Day to day use
You can see now a page with empty fields to add a new task
to the current plan, and buttons to add the task and to create
a new empty plan.
As this is the first time you use the program, there are no tasks
in the current plan, so you need to add a new one:
- Fill up the description field with a brief description
- Fill up the difficulty field with a non-zero positive integer.
This number is the degree of difficulty you assign to this task.
- Fill up the risk field with a non-negative integer.
This number is your lack of knowledge about the task, and
the estimated risks.
- Press Add task.
You can see now your task with buttons to signal the starting(play/pause),
a break (play/pause) and the ending of the task (stop).
Delete button has no function now. And probably will be placed in another
position.
When a task is ended, it's dead: no other action can be performed
over it.
Hints
- Divide the plan into several (no more than ten) task
of the same granularity
- Keep the plan window open and signal ALL the breaks
and which task is finished, running...
- Be patient, this is only an aplha version, designed to
know all the requeriments, the easiest way of use, etc.
There is no learn capabilities. Be patient. Be patient.
At this moment I use the next patter: 1-easy, 2-medium,
3-difficult, 4-very difficult; 0-no risk (for example write
some documentation), 1-normal risk, 2-medium knowledge about
the task, 3-lack of knowledge, 4-dangerous.
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