Shambling Towards Perfection

Today I met with my advisor and we discussed the last sprint, including the issues I had. He decided I should try using the CS email system without authentication, and if that didn't work, the university's email system. I was able to do this during lunch and while the CS system still wouldn't work, I was able to send through the university's system, so that's what we'll be using. This makes the item Fix the email notification system so that it works with the CS department email settings finished, with around 2 hours of work. We also decided to backburner the attempts to get SSL redirection working from the root of the webapp, seeing as I can't figure out the problem and nobody on StackOverflow has even been able to help. As a last resort I can do the redirect programatically, but I would much prefer to do it via Tomcat's configuration if possible. My professor did seem generally pleased with my progress, and when I described the issues I had with PMD...

Yesterday I met with my advisor to demo what I accomplished in sprint 2. Of course most of it was behind-the-scenes so there wasn't a lot to show, but he seemed pleased with my progress thus far. We discussed the security issues I've been researching and the insanity of trying to secure a web app in general, and he said security would be a good topic to discuss in the project summary paper thing I'll have to write. So I'm already getting a general idea of what will have to go in the paper, which is good. We also discussed what I hope to accomplish in sprint 3 and some plans for sprint 4. Right now there's a ton of steps involved in setting up the project for the first time (configuration files to edit and put various places, editing of tomcat's xml files, creating the database, etc. etc.) and so he'd like to simplify all that so that he can deploy my project on his own machine more easily. So we agreed that that will go in as an item for sprint 4. I'll c...