Planet SoC

Google IO
I spent Wednesday and Thursday of last week at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. I had a great time, and particularly enjoyed the “URLs are people too” presentation (all the videos should be available on the google code website soon).

Google IO
I spent Wednesday and Thursday of last week at the Google I/O conference in San Francisco. I had a great time, and particularly enjoyed the “URLs are people too” presentation (all the videos should be available on the google code website soon).

Now that I’m finished with finals, I’m focusing on my summer of code project.
The first challenge is coming up with a name. The best so far is phpDBviz. If nothing better comes up, I’ll register a google code project for it tomorrow. This brings up the secondary question: what version control system to use? Google code provides a subversion repository, and although more modern systems like git are tempting, I’ll probably stick with gcode for the moment since it provides so much more than just the version control (a wiki, a bug tracker, an easy system for bringing other devs onto the project).
What license? I’m leaning towards a BSD style license for simplicity. I doubt that I need to worry greatly about some external force taking the code and not giving it back, and I feel like users will be more comfortable with fewer requirements.

Now that I’m finished with finals, I’m focusing on my summer of code project.
The first challenge is coming up with a name. The best so far is phpDBviz. If nothing better comes up, I’ll register a google code project for it tomorrow. This brings up the secondary question: what version control system to use? Google code provides a subversion repository, and although more modern systems like git are tempting, I’ll probably stick with gcode for the moment since it provides so much more than just the version control (a wiki, a bug tracker, an easy system for bringing other devs onto the project).
What license? I’m leaning towards a BSD style license for simplicity. I doubt that I need to worry greatly about some external force taking the code and not giving it back, and I feel like users will be more comfortable with fewer legal requirements.

I’m pleased to announce that I have been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2008. You can view the abstract for my submission, or learn more about NESCent, my sponsoring organization.

I’m pleased to announce that I have been accepted into the Google Summer of Code 2008. You can view the abstract for my submission, or learn more about NESCent, my sponsoring organization or Brian O’Meara, my mentor for this project.
In a nutshell, I’ll be writing a PHP application to facilitate the visual browsing of relational databases using Graphviz to generate a clickable image map of the selected data. More information is in the abstract, and I’ll probably post a link to the design document once I’ve got that sketched out.
I’ll try and post regular progress updates here as I work on the project.