I will be attending the second day of POSSCON tomorrow. This is the first time I've ever been so it will be really exciting to be at an open source conference.
The Breakout Sessions that stuck out to me and I plan to attend are:
10:00-10:45am
Chris Hinkley Web Hosting - Knocking Out Application Layer & Open Source Threat
1:45-2:00pm
John Mertic Developing Easily Deployable PHP Application
3:15-4:00pm
David Duggins Starting and Running a Business on-the-cheap with Open Source
4:10-4:50pm
Nathan Marz Become Efficient or Die
or
Steve Sokol Open Source Communications with Asterisk
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Next steps..
On Tuesday, March 22nd our goal was play the first version of the Fortune Hunter game so that we could get more familiar with the code and game in general. I especially needed to do this initial step because one of the tasks that I am working on is adding a victory screen from version one into version two.
At first, I was having trouble installing the Sugar OS (I needed to install the OS to download the activity). I tried running it in Virtual Box but the OS would never start. I tried the "Sugar-on-a-Stick" method but I could not figure out how to do this either! Thankfully, Jaime had already installed Sugar on her Virtual Machine so she was able to help me get it working on my machine.
Now the next step is to search for that victory screen in the game or find it in the code. We are not meeting as a group in class on Thursday because of POSSCON.
At first, I was having trouble installing the Sugar OS (I needed to install the OS to download the activity). I tried running it in Virtual Box but the OS would never start. I tried the "Sugar-on-a-Stick" method but I could not figure out how to do this either! Thankfully, Jaime had already installed Sugar on her Virtual Machine so she was able to help me get it working on my machine.
Now the next step is to search for that victory screen in the game or find it in the code. We are not meeting as a group in class on Thursday because of POSSCON.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
POSSCON 2011
I will be attending POSSCON on Thursday, March 24th.
On this day, there two speakers and six Breakout Sessions.
I think the first speaker, Jim Jagielski, would be someone interesting to speak with. He seems like he has had plenty of experience with open source software and he is involved with Red Hat. Sugar was initially developed by Red Hat and OLPC.
I think I would just enjoy listening to the second speaker, Gianugo Rabellino, who is going to talk about Open Source Communities at Microsoft. These two do not appear to be a likely duo, but who knows.
As for the Breakout Sessions, I'm torn between two speakers for the first one. Choice number one is Chris Hinkley who will be speaking about web security. I would really like to hear him speak about this because this idea is so important in today's businesses. My other choice was to attend Allen Tucker's session. He will be speaking about HFOSS projects and will be sharing many ongoing efforts of students. I thought this session would be interesting because we are currently working on FOSS projects.
I think it would also be interesting to speak with John Mertic in the third session. I'm not sure what type of PHP application he is describing, but I just learned about PHP last semester when we used it to connect a website to a MySql database. I would like to learn more about what you can do with PHP.
On this day, there two speakers and six Breakout Sessions.
I think the first speaker, Jim Jagielski, would be someone interesting to speak with. He seems like he has had plenty of experience with open source software and he is involved with Red Hat. Sugar was initially developed by Red Hat and OLPC.
I think I would just enjoy listening to the second speaker, Gianugo Rabellino, who is going to talk about Open Source Communities at Microsoft. These two do not appear to be a likely duo, but who knows.
As for the Breakout Sessions, I'm torn between two speakers for the first one. Choice number one is Chris Hinkley who will be speaking about web security. I would really like to hear him speak about this because this idea is so important in today's businesses. My other choice was to attend Allen Tucker's session. He will be speaking about HFOSS projects and will be sharing many ongoing efforts of students. I thought this session would be interesting because we are currently working on FOSS projects.
I think it would also be interesting to speak with John Mertic in the third session. I'm not sure what type of PHP application he is describing, but I just learned about PHP last semester when we used it to connect a website to a MySql database. I would like to learn more about what you can do with PHP.
Monday, March 14, 2011
First Class After Spring Break
I'm not sure what we will do in class tomorrow. I'm assuming everyone will present their timelines. My group has already created a Google calendar for our timeline. We have mapped out our meetings and check-ins for tracking our progress. We all have chosen our tasks/bugs/enhancements for the Fortune Hunter project.
Here is a link to our timeline information.
Here is a link to our Google calendar.
Here is a link to our timeline information.
Here is a link to our Google calendar.
Spring Break - Tuesday - March 8th
Unfortunately, I did not have time to work on anything for class during Spring Break. On this day, I was on the Carnival Inspiration cruise ship on my way to Grand Cayman and I did not have my phone or laptop.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Documentation
Even though everyone gripes about having to document code, including me, I also think it is very important. My experience working at Hawkes Learning Systems has proven this. I am currently working on converting a classic ASP page to an ASP.NET page and so I have to look at someone else's code and understand what it is doing so that I can convert it to a different language. It is always helpful to see comments because it helps me understand what a function is doing or what the expected output is. I also agree that comments need to be in the code even if you are writing it because who knows whether you will even understand what you did in 6 months.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Future Contributions
Our next step with the FOSS projects is to create a list of bugs or enhancements that we plan to work on for the rest of the semester. Our group has decided to stick with the ticket tracker for our project, Fortune Hunter, to find ideas for our main contributions. We have decided to look at the second bug and 3 or 4 requested tasks that include improving the GUI + art and adding a victory screen. For further details, please refer to our team wiki.
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