Archive for the ‘Basie’ Category
Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Guillaume Simard and François Fournier are writing Selenium tests for Basie (our Django-based replacement for Trac). Over on the Basie blog, they explain why they're using random data in their tests, rather than testing against predefined fixtures.
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
I keep telling my students not to over-commit themselves. It's a shame I don't take my own advice :-). Here's what I've currently got on the go:
Software Carpentry teaches basic software development skills to scientists and engineers. I have 80% of the funding I need to spend ...
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Sunday, February 21st, 2010
It's a sunny Sunday morning in Atlanta, and I'm on my way home. I came down Thursday to:
Raise money for Software Carpentry.
Get people excited about Basie.
Get people excited about UCOSP.
Talk with Georgia Tech's Mark Guzdial about computer science education.
#4 actually happened first. Mark picked me up Friday morning; we chatted ...
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Tuesday, February 16th, 2010
We are pleased to announce the release of Version 0.6 of Basie, a lightweight software project portal built on Django and jQuery. Basie is designed to replace Trac and DrProject; its main features are:
Multiple projects per forge
Role-based access control
Pluggable user account management
Per-project wiki with standard WikiCreole syntax
Subversion repository browser
Per-project mailing ...
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Yesterday, I asked if anyone was building something like Fossil using a NoSQL database. In response, someone named Pete (who didn't leave a real email address) asked, "Why NoSQL? This is a perfect application for an SQL database." Respectfully, I disagree, but my reason will take a little explaining.
Over the ...
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Sunday, December 6th, 2009
We're about to release version 0.6 of Basie, a replacement for Trac built on Django and jQuery. Before we dive into work on 0.7 at the beginning of January, we'd welcome some code and design reviews from experienced Django and jQuery developers. We have some nice coffee mugs to send ...
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Sunday, August 30th, 2009
MarkUs, a Rails-based tool for marking student programming assignments, just released Version 0.5. MarkUs aims to provide the convenience and flexibility of pen-and-paper marking over the web; it will be deployed this fall at the University of Toronto, and is one of the eight cross-country open source projects we'll be ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
We are very pleased to announce the release of Version 0.5 of Basie, a lightweight software project forge built on Django that borrows many ideas from Trac and DrProject. As this screencast shows, its features include:
Multiple projects per forge
Role-based access control and pluggable user account management
Subversion repository browser
Cross-component search
Per-project wiki ...
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Now that the Software Carpentry course is over, it's time to get back to planning projects for the fall, and there's good news on two fronts. The first is that we had a very productive meeting on Tuesday about projects using the City of Toronto's data. The CUPE strike may ...
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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Over on the Basie blog, Florian has posted an idea about using AJAX to get around one of the most annoying problems in DrProject: timeouts during lengthy batch creation of projects and/or users. Basically, his plan is to have the browser send one create request at a time, instead of ...
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