UCOSP: status report #7
Monday, October 26, 2009

Here are some useful cheat sheets: 1, 2, that I found when I'm playing around with Ingres database while I'm getting drupal installed again T.T

The IRC channel was really useful, I got an extension for php 5.3 and Ingres 10.0.0.107 fresh built from Grant, when it's not even on ESD yet.

But hey, it feels good when I know I'm on the right track and making progress!

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UCOSP: status report #6
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Today, in order for me to add modules to PHP easily for drupal correctly communicating with Ingres, I have got Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.3 configured and installed independent form Xampp on a Windows 32 bit XP Home with SP3. I have followed these 2 tutorials: 1, 2 for Apache and PHP respectively.

There are also some other points that one need to watch out for while you are going through the above tutorials:

  • By default, Skype listens on port 80, kills it before you install Apache with default values.
  • If you have default values while you are installing Apache, remember to go to httpd.conf(the configuration file for Apache) and replace the following line "LISTEN 80" to "LISTEN 8080"
  • After all the configurations of PHP, you want to see if PHP is correctly installed. You have a php file only has a single line phpinfo();, and loading up that is giving you a blank page, should go back to php.ini under Apache and look for the variable "short_long_tag". If it is "Off", replace that "Off" with "On", since "
  • On completion of installation of MySql, it launches automatically, need to brings up the ProcessExplorer to manually kill the instance before you can proceed with tutorial 3. You can always see the error log in the .err file under data directory inside mysql.


Next, move Drupal onto the newly configured server!

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UCOSP: status report #5
Saturday, October 24, 2009

At the meeting today, Evan, Sarah, and I, the three of us discussed the pitfalls of using xampp to make drupal to talk directly with Ingres. They helped me to discoverred that my configuration was not right and my drupal was based on mysql but not Ingres.

Besides, preparing ourselves to build the code, we were comparing our understanding of what exactly is Geospatial. Since we are all not sure if Geospatial is a "specialist" of Ingres or a plugin to Ingres. I can see that we are building the Geospatial code which is one of the branches under Ingres in the repository, and the structure is almost identical to the main Ingres code base, which suggests that it may be the former.

Next week goal: Fix the communication between Drupal and Ingres.

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UCOSP: status report #4
Friday, October 23, 2009

Today the team of students meet up on skype and discussed our common goals, our status updates, and the grading scheme of the term

Grading scheme:
As Andrew has suggested, we should be graded 75% on 5 patches that each student archieved by the end of the term, 5% on communication, 5% for the 2 blogs, 5% pro-rated for meeting attendance, 5% for participation on the mailing list, 5% for evidence of particupation in the community - mailing list posts, IRC interactions, etc.
However, the students concluded today at the meeting that communication is a very important criteria and determining factor for us to be successful. Some student may be able to get the 5 patches done and pass the course without communicating with the rest of the team. We all wish that the other components can be weight higher to stress their importance.

Status updates:
Eva Wong: Working on her understanding of the bigger pictures of the Geospatial code base while she's working on her build. It seems that her drupal was not communicating with Ingres properly, need to go back to fix that within next week.
Evan James Bowling: Installed Apache, PHP, and Ingres seperately under Windows XP, rather than making use of XAMPP. Resolved an issue to get PHP communicating with Ingres. Next week: Intend to have drupal installed and communicating with Ingres and using the GMap and Location modules.
Mary Mootoo, Sara Castaneda- Danaher: Got linux virtual machine installed on windows laptop with the help of Dr. Steven Case.

We are all working on sync'ing what everyone has and make sure that everyone has Drupal on Ingres, next moving on will be building code, meeting again tomorrow at noon.

Related blog posts:
Mary Mootoo
Eva Wong

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Fix: Visual Studio 2005 automatic project checkout crashes
Monday, October 19, 2009

I have recently got a copy of Visual Studio 2005 and its .NET framework. I am still new to these development tools.

Problem: Every now and then since a new project has been created, Visual Studio 2005 crashes on automatic checkout on that project.
Fix: Also get Visual Studio 2005 SP1, that includes a fix to this problem

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UCOSP: status report #3
Friday, October 16, 2009

For this week, I have been getting myself working around with subversion of Microsoft Visual Studio. Ankhsvn is the one that I have got. For next week, since it is packed with midterms, I will keep on working with subversion until next Friday before I'll be resuming my work.

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UCOSP status report #2
Friday, October 9, 2009

I have been spending this week to get myself familiar with Microsoft Visual Studio and its .NET components. Such as using debugger, watching tutorial videos and demos of how to use the tool to write C code. Next week goal: Build Ingres.

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