[Op-torch-general] Things I did today

[Michael R. <mro...@ea...>]

Just to keep the information flowing.  I completed a large rework today.

I have all the catalogs working correctly, at least apparently.  I am  
in the process of adding all the catalog defines to the objects we  
want cataloged.  I also successfully added the per patient/member  
catalogs, and will be setting objects to update to these.  This will  
be a neat trick, as it will allow us to use a ZCatalog to access  
patient informatino, giving us a very powerful search function, and  
speed.

I have the EMR working again, but will dive in and break stuff again  
soon, as I am going to be rewriting the view and edit scripts to use  
the ZCatalogs to gather information.

I know it doesn't seem like we are doing much, but there is a great  
deal of activity going on in the back ground.

I also put up a server at my office to host the TORCH site, and the  
SVN server.  I need a server I have dedicated access to, and that I  
can thrash if I need to, so I made that move.  We will now have 3  
developement servers, and SVN should help us keep them linear.  We  
will see.  The server I set up today will be a dedicated server, so I  
will have more freedom to experiment if I need to, and won't feel  
guilty about hosing someone elses system. :)

Jake and I are working hard to make it to a milestone to get a beta  
out the door before the AMIA meeting in October.  I have contacted  
John-Paul Mead, as he contacted me several months ago, and we hope  
that we can at the least put a more impressive version of TORCH in  
his hands by the conference.  Jake and I would both like to be able  
to go, but as we are both expecting (well, he and his wife, and I and  
mine) around that time, and the conference is very expensive for a  
gnu project, that may not be possible.  If we can make an arrival for  
the Demo, and then hit the road, we may try that.  I have not  
received word back from John-Paul yet, so will see what we can do.

Things are progressing.  We are still open to help, there are _many_  
things that people could do to become involved, from donations, to  
web page design, to hopefully soon, testing.

I will keep you informed the best I can.

Michael

Michael Rowley MD
Project Manager
TORCH2
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