Archive for the ‘Student Projects’ Category

As We Head Into the Holiday Weekend…

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Dan Servos has the first visuals from his grade stats plugin for Moodle. After a week of hard work, Qi Yang has plugged into Eclipse. Eva Wong has discovered that structuring projects from scratch is hard, but now has a handle on the data she's going to visualize. Joseph Yeung is making steady ...

Navigating IRC Logs, Nested Forms, Et Cetera

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Kosta Zabashta has posted a screenshot of a new interface for navigating IRC logs in DrProject. It displays a sidebar of the project's event log; clicking on an event takes you to the portion of the IRC log closest in time to the chosen event. Feedback is, as always, ...

Another Week of Progress

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Our students all seem to be making progress: Kosta Zabashta has posted a (rather quiet) screencast showing the current state of IRC integration. Your comments on the user interface would be very welcome. Eva Wong has been wrestling with security and domains in Flex. Input would be welcome --- surely it can't ...

Feedback Time

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Daniel Servos is just about ready to put a text-based version of his Moodle stats plugin up for public comment---screenshots are already available. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. I'll be begging for feedback on other students' projects as well just as soon as they have pixels on the ...

Determining When You Should Stop Adding Features to a Version is Hard

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Our students grow wiser by the day.

Deleting Roles

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

One of the ways DrProject improves on Trac is role-based access control. A role is a set of capabilities, such as WIKI_VIEW or TICKET_EDIT, and users' relationships to projects are represented by triples of the form (user, project, role). It makes administration a lot easier, and once Qiyu Zhu's web-based ...

Three Weeks and Change

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Everyone's making good progress: Ming and Bing have posted their second demo --- next step is to do some serious design of the final product. After correcting an earlier post of mine, Xuan has blogged a fuller description of what she and Edward are building. Zeev Lieber posted a brief summary of what ...

Q&A&Z

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Last summer we organized several pizza lunches at which people from local companies, and faculty from the department, could chat with our intern students.  They were a lot of fun: the students learned a lot about possible future careers, and what they could be doing now to prep for them, ...

Summer of Code Podcasts

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

A new season of Summer of Code podcasts has started, and the first installment is an interview with James Tauber and Titus Brown of the Python Software Foundation.

Still Wrestling With Google’s Web Toolkit

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Dmitri is still struggling with Google's web toolkit---in particular, with trying to debug code that's throwing an exception for unknown reasons. Maybe we could pass a new law---nobody's allowed to release a library, framework, language, or other [name goes here] without including debugger support... *sigh*