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New Year, New Website
Hello all. It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything on here, but I’ve been busy. Besides traveling and working, I have been spending some time working on a fresh new design for this site. It’s going to be much more functional than it is now and should be done in a couple weeks. I plan [...]
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Virgin Galactic
Anyone have $200,000?
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So I got a last.fm account…
For some reason I decided today that I wanted to see more detailed information about the music I listen to, since itunes doesn’t give me good enough information. The itunes ‘playcount’ only increments when 100% of a song plays and I tend to skip most songs before they are done. With the last.fm ‘scrobbler’ I [...]
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New Hubble Photos Released
New images from Hubble Space Telescope were released yesterday and they are amazing. Apparently these are some of the most detailed shots ever taken by Hubble.
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Yo Gabba Gabba!!
I wish Yo Gabba Gabba was around when I was a youngin’. Its this really cracked out kids show where all these crazy creatures dance around in ‘Gabba Land’ with this guy ‘DJ Lance Rock’, listening to hip musics. It’s a real mind trip! Chromeo even made a song for the show about washing your hands [...]
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My New Set Up
Today was a day filled with lots of upgrades. I was just planning on getting a monitor, but one thing led to another and I ended up getting an Apple wireless keyboard, a wireless mouse, and some wood to build a station on my desk. It was fun! I got a great deal on the [...]
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Semi-new site
Now I got a blog! …and soon I’ll have all sorts of cool stuff on here – music, videos, podcasts. Keep checkin for updates in the future
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My first Wicket Web Application
There are many frameworks available today for creating dynamic web applications, some of which are extremely complicated and hard to use. Wicket is one of the few, easy to use tools out there that works well with Java programming. What makes Wicket different from most other web application tools is that it effectively separates the [...]
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ICS Industry Day at UH Manoa
Today was the ICS Industry day at UH Manoa, an event I’ve been waiting to go to for awhile now. High tech companies from all over Hawaii come in and do presentations on what their company does, while showing some of the real life jobs that are available to a newly graduated student. Since I [...]
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The Release of Due Dates Version 1.2 [team gold]
This week marks the release of Due Dates version 1.2 [Project Homepage]. With this new version comes two new features: an email reporting service, as well as a timer-based reporting function that allows the user to automatically have the program run at some specified interval of time. Both functions have been integrated into the Team [...]
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In the GREEN with HackyStat!
THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SOFTWARE ICU A software ‘Intensive Care Unit’ is basically a set of tools for assessing and maintaining project health. It is very much like a hospital’s ICU, as it monitors health via vital signs, except that it is monitoring a software project. Of these vital signs, some can give one a very [...]
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The Release of Due Dates Version 1.1 [team gold]
For the last week and a half, my partner Scheller Sanchez and I have been working on Due Dates Version 1.1. This new version has many new features compared to the last one, including support for the Hawaii State Library, a sort option, as well as a within option. All in all what ended up [...]
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Software Review Part Deux
After much time was spent re-working and changing the Due Dates [Team Gold] system to include new standards, Scheller and I were assigned to do a software review on Team Silver’s Due Dates program, as well as have our system reviewed by Team Orange. This turned out to be a real eye opening experience for me, [...]
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Time For Review! Software Review that is…
After working with Scheller Sanchez on the first release of Due Dates, I was ready to take the next step in expanding and enhancing the overall system. Since it is still in the first version, Due Dates is far from being a perfect system. There are many things to improve on and a lot of [...]
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Creating My First OSS Project: Due Dates
PROJECT: Due Dates PROJECT PAGE: http://code.google.com/p/duedates-gold/ TEAM: Tyler Wolff and Scheller Sanchez (team gold) OVERALL CONCEPT: Due Dates is a program that will go and retrieve information about various items that you (the user) have borrowed, including their due dates. The application can be used for library books, videos, or anything else with a due date, [...]
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Further Exploration in Configuration Management
After working on a professor’s project and creating my own stack project (link to past post), I thought it would be interesting to collaborate with another classmate using google project hosting and subversion. Usually when I’ve worked with others in the past, everything is planned out before each person programs or edits code in order [...]
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Experiences with Configuration Management
During my years as a computer science student I have never used configuration management tools, though I’ve known about them. I’ve never used them because they were never required in any of my classes and because frankly, I’ve never had a real use for them. Most of the programs I have written have been small and [...]
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Code Coverage Using Emma
Emma is an open-source Java code coverage tool that I recently added to my collection of Java quality assurance tools [Ant, JUnit, CheckStyle, PMD, FindBugs]. What it essentially does is check that every line of code in the source files is run though using class, method, line, and basic block coverage methods. It can be a very [...]
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Bug Problems with 100% Code Coverage
Test coverage has many limitations in the programming world. When I first heard of tools like Emma I really thought using them would make my programs totally robust and bug-less. However after reading articles like this, and working on getting 100% code coverage with my Stack project, I am starting to think otherwise. Would it [...]
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Using Ant/QA Tools to Build a Robust Program Package
As programmers there are many tools out there that streamline the writing process and optimize code. Some tools create all in one programming environments to work in (IDE’s), some tools help you to build projects, and others do all sort of cool things that clean-up and optimize code. Previous to taking ICS413 I was never [...]
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Thoughts on Automated vs. Manual Quality Assurance
When programming it is always hard to get the code looking and working right the first time around. More often than not, we miss the littlest, most minute details in our program code and it fails because of it. Those are the times when it is ultimately useful to get an objective, outside view of [...]
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Code Ruler Peer Review [Flestado]
When I first opened the MyRuler.java file from Mari-Lee Flestado I did a quick scan over all the code to get an overall impression of it. At first glance I found the code to be clear and organized. I saw lots of clear, logical statements and many single line comments. It took slightly longer to [...]
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Lessons learned from Code Ruler
CodeRuler is an application provided by IBM where one is challenged to create the best possible ruler using Java programming. The game premise is simple: you must battle other rulers for land and dominance. For each game you start off with one castle, ten knights, and ten peasants. You get points for claiming land and [...]
