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An important update: AntPlanner will be down on Thursday Nov 8th for a major site upgrade. During this time, all saved schedules will be purged.
In the past few months I received a handful of bug reports about inaccurate course times. I realized that the code, being over 2 years old, needed to be overhauled. So in the last 3 weeks, I've been chipping away at a brand new re-written version of AntPlanner. It's just about done, I just need to put in some finishing touches!
Until then, signing out!
P.S. There is a new project page for the new AntPlanner located here
EDIT (Nov 4): If you want to try AntPlanner2 early, there is a beta page here available: AntPlanner2 beta. Please, please, please create an issue here if you encounter any problems!
EDIT (Nov 5): Had to take the beta down. My account was reaching quota limits!
WebSoc made a change in the code that broke AntPlanner. This issue is fixed.
Thanks to lihops for reporting an issue where certain courses weren't showing up in the calendar even after being clicked. The problem was due to an incorrect assumption on course times from WebSOC. This is now fixed.
Also, a big Thanks to styfl for contributing code for integrating Ratemyprofessor.com ratings into AntPlanner. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to put in the feature in the current release due to resource constraints imposed by the new Google App Engine hosting pricing model. If you want to see a preview of how it would've worked, check out http://antplanner-fork.appspot.com/(Load up department page and click on a professor name). I think it'd be great if someone could further optimize the current code so that it can more resource-efficient and be put into the release in the future! The source code is here, so feel free to send a pull request!
One last thing, I'm probably not going to be working on any major features for AntPlanner for a while as stated in an earlier post. I'm going to be shifting some focus onto some other projects I'm working on. Of course, if there's any bugs on the site, still report the issue and I will get to it. Just no biggy features...unless someone out there wants to help out ^_^.
Saved schedule retention periods have increased! Schedules are now kept for 3 months before they are deleted rather than the previous 1 month retention.
Also, I have decided to slow down the updates for now. I've started work on a new super-secret site also for UCI students and I want to get a beta of that rolled out hopefully around September so AntPlanner updates will have to wait a bit. The exception is if there is a serious issue that comes up (wrong course times, broken feature, etc) then I'll get right on it.
Remember, if you want to submit a patch or work on a bug, feel free to submit a pull request or browse the issues (via the Github menu above). Happy summer everyone!
Discovered a bug where you couldn't save/load schedules that had classes with ampersand or other non-letter characters. Sorry to anyone who was trying to choose ICS and Film/Media courses! This is now fixed.
For anyone who is interested in the technical details, this was due to not URL encoding the POST request. The ampersands in I&C Sci and FLM&MDA were being interpreted by the request handler as query key/value separators. Make sure to encode your requests!
So I heard registration is coming up... Well, here is the latest update. Notable changes:
Updated User Interface
Did some minor cleanup on the interface. Added a link to the new Help Page and this page.
Updated Calendar Visual
Small tweaks in this space; Vertical time slot space reduced so you don't have to scroll as much anymore. Also, some class titles were being cut off but now this is fixed.
Save/Load Schedules
Yes, you can finally save the schedules that you create. Currently, you can save your schedules to a username of your choice. I know this can cause problems if someone else chooses the same name as you but it was the easiest implementation I could hack together in time before registration week. I'll most likely modify this behavior in the next update. Since this is the first version of save/load, there may be some issues with this feature so please report any problems you come across.
That's it for now. I'll be beginning work on the next update, so see you then!