Our team project is moving on without a hitch—we actually received an email from Nathaniel (the person in charge of Lemonade Stand) during Tuesday’s class, in which he gave us the go-ahead on what we are looking at doing. Needless to say this is good news for us and a boost knowing we are on the right track. As for myself, I had been trying to determine the best way to work with the code (since it is in python) and in my CSCI360 class we are using NetBeans—which I discovered has a Python plugin! Originally I was using subversion with tortoisesvn in Windows but since I needed to test the code in Ubuntu I really wanted to have everything working in the same OS. I spent a good part of the day yesterday working on this and was able to make everything work together…I was very happy! I imported our project from our repository in Cirdles directly into my new NetBeans Python project, set up the subversion inside NetBeans and I was off and running. Since we are only working on documentation this week (instead of code) I wasn’t too pushed, but wanted to get ahead of the game.
For my trip to the Posscon convention next Friday, I have chosen 4 speakers (in case I am not able to catch all 3) to ask questions of. The first two are rather easy because I plan on attending their workshop and should be able to ask my questions—if nothing else in the question & answer portion of the workshop. The other two are speakers of other Friday workshops, so hopefully they will be available at some point—whereas if I choose a speaker from a different day, they might not be there on Friday to ask.
David Both is the speaker of my morning workshop which is about Open Office. One of the questions I have has a personal connection to me. I am hooked on MS Outlook and as of yet, I have not seen a similar package in Open Office and I was wondering if one is in the works (or why not). I am also interested in learning how they are able to mimic (and even bi-directionally use) Microsoft documents without drawing the legal ire of Microsoft. A final thing that I am interested in learning is what is “on the horizon” for Open Office.
David Duggins will be the speaker of my afternoon workshop dealing with using open source software to start your business. I’m sure this workshop will give me the business aspect of open source software, and in particular I’d like to find out from him what the best open source accounting software would be. Over the years I have been patronizing MS Money—which is now been discontinued, so I’d be interested in something open source that might be maintained for many years to come. I’d also be interested in learning why (since there is no cost to count off on my taxes) I should base my business on open source instead of off the shelf or built software (which I can deduct portions as business expenses).
Finally, I hope that I can catch either Jim McCracken or Neil Underwood who are speaking at a morning workshop dealing with 3-D printing and open hardware. I kind of wanted to attend that shop to learn about “open hardware” and might swap if the Open Office workshop is too full. I have never heard of “open hardware” so I would be asking the, what’s and how’s of that. 3-D printing is something that would be interesting to learn about as well…so “how can I use that” and “what are the costs involved” would be another area to question them about. Finally there is the “Thing-O-Matic” that I am sure is the printer, but I’d be interested in learning what it is, who makes it and what it costs.
When dealing with chapter 9, it was by far the shortest assignment I’ve had to read yet. While I can understand the concept of “releasing early and often,” I can also see a downside. When rushing things to go live, you can introduce some unintended consequences that might have been discovered through more testing. While quick and often releases can cover this, it also could mean more of these consequences or force the user to learn to do something a different way—or it could all go smoothly. (I’m just being a realist looking at it from a user’s perspective) Also, I’m not sure if our author was testing us but all of the links on this page were either dead or took me to a wiki type page that was empty—guess I should contact the author and tell him that someone was paying attention….he needs to release quickly again :)
For my trip to the Posscon convention next Friday, I have chosen 4 speakers (in case I am not able to catch all 3) to ask questions of. The first two are rather easy because I plan on attending their workshop and should be able to ask my questions—if nothing else in the question & answer portion of the workshop. The other two are speakers of other Friday workshops, so hopefully they will be available at some point—whereas if I choose a speaker from a different day, they might not be there on Friday to ask.
David Both is the speaker of my morning workshop which is about Open Office. One of the questions I have has a personal connection to me. I am hooked on MS Outlook and as of yet, I have not seen a similar package in Open Office and I was wondering if one is in the works (or why not). I am also interested in learning how they are able to mimic (and even bi-directionally use) Microsoft documents without drawing the legal ire of Microsoft. A final thing that I am interested in learning is what is “on the horizon” for Open Office.
David Duggins will be the speaker of my afternoon workshop dealing with using open source software to start your business. I’m sure this workshop will give me the business aspect of open source software, and in particular I’d like to find out from him what the best open source accounting software would be. Over the years I have been patronizing MS Money—which is now been discontinued, so I’d be interested in something open source that might be maintained for many years to come. I’d also be interested in learning why (since there is no cost to count off on my taxes) I should base my business on open source instead of off the shelf or built software (which I can deduct portions as business expenses).
Finally, I hope that I can catch either Jim McCracken or Neil Underwood who are speaking at a morning workshop dealing with 3-D printing and open hardware. I kind of wanted to attend that shop to learn about “open hardware” and might swap if the Open Office workshop is too full. I have never heard of “open hardware” so I would be asking the, what’s and how’s of that. 3-D printing is something that would be interesting to learn about as well…so “how can I use that” and “what are the costs involved” would be another area to question them about. Finally there is the “Thing-O-Matic” that I am sure is the printer, but I’d be interested in learning what it is, who makes it and what it costs.
When dealing with chapter 9, it was by far the shortest assignment I’ve had to read yet. While I can understand the concept of “releasing early and often,” I can also see a downside. When rushing things to go live, you can introduce some unintended consequences that might have been discovered through more testing. While quick and often releases can cover this, it also could mean more of these consequences or force the user to learn to do something a different way—or it could all go smoothly. (I’m just being a realist looking at it from a user’s perspective) Also, I’m not sure if our author was testing us but all of the links on this page were either dead or took me to a wiki type page that was empty—guess I should contact the author and tell him that someone was paying attention….he needs to release quickly again :)
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