1. Web Programming Assignment 4 - Extra Credit Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 418/518 Fall 2010 Martin Klein

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/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://mapofscience.com/ –http://www.lanl.gov/news/albums/science/PLOSMapOfScience.jpghttp://www.lanl.gov/news/albums/science/PLOSMapOfScience.jpg –http://physicsworld.com/blog/graph1997.jpghttp://physicsworld.com/blog/graph1997.jpg –http://static.userland.com/rack4/images/lance/ScienceMap001.jpghttp://static.userland.com/rack4/images/lance/ScienceMap001.jpg Random selection of tools: –http://code.google.com/p/jsviz/http://code.google.com/p/jsviz/ –http://thejit.org/http://thejit.org/ –http://www.graphviz.org/http://www.graphviz.org/ –http://www.mapequation.org/http://www.mapequation.org/ –http://gephi.org/http://gephi.org/ –http://labs.unwieldy.net/moowheel/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