DEVELOPERS CO-OP MEETING NOTES
Date of
meeting:
SIG leaders:
Golda Velez and Dave Parizek
Location: Spoke6
GENERAL
DISCUSSION
Golda
asked Francis about his three lectures, and he will email her the links for his
lecture/presentation notes on:
"Virtual
Machines", "Cloud
Computing", and "Using
a Webcam".
Francis
stated that he just completed the installation of "Apache Web Server"
running in a "Ubuntu
10.04 Desktop" virtual machine running in "VMware
Player 3". He stated that he posted the procedure for setting up this
server at
http://aztcs.org/meeting_notes/linuxsig/apache/apache.htm
One
attendee stated that his employer is moving from "Windows XP" to "Windows
7" and they are repeatedly testing equipment that has weekly revisions to
its software. Keeping track of the
various versions is necessary and a "virtual machine" would reduce
the amount of legacy physical computers that he has to maintain. He is using "VisualBasic
6" and changing to something else, maybe "Visual Basic .NET" or "C#"
or something.
Golda
mentioned that Intuit is mostly .NET now.
Golda
mentioned that "VMware vCenter Converter Standalone"
is a free software utility that can be used to convert physical computers into
virtual machines that will run under most of VMware's
products including the free ones.
Francis
told them about "Paragon
Go Virtual" which was recommended by Steve Hernandez. Francis stated
that an extensive discussion of both conversion utilities can be found at
http://aztcs.org/meeting_notes/winhardsig/virtualmachines/virtualmachines.htm
Dave
talked about providing assistance for a client to search a table of contents of
research papers and books at
http://www.evolutionary-ecology.com
The
client wanted to be able to make his own changes to the site, so he didn't want
to have any code that was too complex.
Dave chose to use the "JQuery" Javascript
framework. He had several questions:
Searching
for
2009(6)
caused problems.
The problems appeared to the be caused by the
(.
Golda
suggested adding a
\
before the
(.
Dave
stated that changing to uppercase slowed the search too much in Internet
Explorer but not in other browsers.
Members decided to change the search to either a lower-level Java Script
or use PHP script on the server side that calls for that one thing.
The
client also wanted to assign a number to each work for intellectual property
reasons using a new "Direct Object
Identifier" (DOI) product, which is different from "Uniform
Resource Identifier" (URI) because it does more than URI. Dave added "span class article" to
the list but it was not consistent enough.
Dave asked about what output to give to the client. Members said he would love Excel output to
test (CSV). Golda said there is a new
program from MIT called "Exhibit"
that she would like to learn so she would help him if he wanted to use
that. Members noted that parsing CSV
files was difficult as you must turn all the quotes to comments.
Dave
said he might like to repair Apple computers if he could get them cheap enough. Golda said that Safford Magnet School was using
the old Apple IIe for their text teleprompter and
needed more of them. Francis recommended
that he contact Todd Jameson to ask Todd about his successful Mac repair
business:
Todd
Jameson
(310)
517-9656
E:Mail =
trjameson@earthlink.net
One
attendee asked about which Javascript Framework he should use. JQuery, Yahoo
User Interface Library (YUI), and Mootools were mentioned, but attendees agreed that JQuery has the most acceptance.
Golda
showed her new "Bteaching" Web site, for
parents to help them teach basic skills to their kids. This new site is located
at
She
demonstrated the "Cooperative Bingo" reading game at
http://bteaching.com/lesson-plan-ideas/cooperative-reading-bingo
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