25 november 2021

My webpage works! Kind of.

I've been working on a project where I have to make a webserver communicate with an external system and a web client. I've written a Labview program that controls a function generator and an oscilloscope, and sends their parameter values to my web server through HTTP-requests, where it is parsed and added to a SQL database. The web client does the same, through an AJAX-request. Both systems should also periodically pull data from the database to keep data up-to-date. This way, the measurement instruments can be controlled from both clients. Not sure how this could be useful in any way, but at least I met the requirements for the project.

I'm not sure if I should leave it at that, or add more functionalities, such as a login page with new account creation, or a graph where the scope image is displayed. My CSS could use some work too. However, I have six projects in total this semester, and at least this one and an embedded systems project with a PSoC5 are almost finished, but the others still have a lot of work to do.

The webpage project did spark an idea: get my own domain name (uni provided us with this dmonain name and server specially for this project), and use it as an online resume, with maybe a section for a travel blog. Domain names are relatively cheap, webhosting shouldn't be too expensive either. Flex on my future employers, show off personal projects, that sort of thing.