Hey Everyone, I'm finally back after quite some time (a couple months or so). Upcoming for my blog will be posts concerning a New Media Team Project (ditto to a Educational Capstone) and a variety of different Raspberry Pi projects pumping out of the Advanced FOSS course. All in all, there's going to be some sweet hacks getting built and produced. I'll make sure to get some team support in putting these on Github for the internets. Until then, I'll keep updating this blog as the new knowledge f ...

Hey world it's been a while!! I took a bit of time to get used to the new semester system that RIT is using instead of our dearly loved quarterly system. In the mean time I've had some thing happening and continue to happen that I believe I should blog about to get some stability back into my work life. Past things that have been going on: Summer COOP was glorious! I can't believe the amount of awesome individuals that I've met and am continuing to meet through the Fossbox and it's many faith ...

Yesterday was a slow day of research and development. As usual, it took most of the day to finally get to the interesting bits. SO, lets start where the fun begins. First, a small revelation regarding sugar activities. If you're programming a prospective activity, write the program first in python (so that it works on you're PC, box, etc..). AFTER your activity works just the way you want it to work on your machine, port it over to sugar by importing your sugar library and placing all of your co ...

Well it has been quite some time since my last blog post and there has been a BOAT load of happenings going on in FOSSLAND. SkyTime, Lemonade Stand, are all on their way to become solid-fantastic things! SkyTime: We in the SkyTime Team were recently accepted to the White House in Washington DC because of our activity at the National Civic Hack-a-thon a couple weeks ago. We originally planned on working with SkyTime because we weren't happy with how it performed on the XO laptop. We needed to u ...

We are having a short work week this time because of the national holiday of July 4th. We have a full FOSSbox of mentors, including some from Red Hat and a Mozilla rep. Its quite the place to be hacking atm. On Monday, I was still hacking on the Sash activity. This activity is going to be what the students use to view their badges that they earn. If anyone wants to contribute to this project, it's GitHub repo is located Here. I've gotten Sash to the point where ...

This blog post is meant to supplement my inability to attend debrief yesterday (Thursday June 28th) due to me being unable to connect to an internet connection. Old Buisness ACTION: brush ask for some badges to test with nope ACTION: brush make some circles with new inkscape skills to play with done ACTION: brush get Sash onto the xo nope ACTION: brush ping #sugar about saving whole files into DSObject pinged, no response, found how to link the files correctly on my own. ACTION: brush ...

Well this is troubling. Since I've taken on the task of understanding how the journal works in the OLPC XO laptops, I have learned a great deal of information regarding the sugar datastore. HOWEVER, as I claim more and more knowledge for myself, I keep finding myself at points where I cannot physically progress my understand because the only documented information about datastore is contained within this single document. Its a 1 to 1 ratio, ...

This week was another long haul on the road to research. My goal for the whole week was to figure out how to get our activity, Lemonade Stand, to create a journal entry. Since I did know anything regarding the journal, I spent the majority of the week learning how the OLPC journal worked and what I needed to change or implement into our activity that would make it work. I started by using my most valuable resource, #sugar , and learned that the journal uses datastore to make its entries. [This ...

FINALLY A BREAKTHROUGH!!!! Today was our second work from home Friday. This time I was working from Cortland New York, about 2 hour away from RIT and the FOSSbox. My main mission continued throughout the week trying to get the Lemonade Stand Activity to create a journal entry. Previously, I had emailed a former surf member for some tips on how he worked with OLPC during his time with the FOSSbox. I was directed to his Open Source Blog to research what he did wi ...

CODE SPELUNKING!!! Yesterday was a very dirty day digging through code. The entire day I was looking at two sugar activities. SkyTime and Lemonade Stand. The ticket assigned to me was to get Lemonade Stand to make an entry into the journal. I used SkyTime as a parallel test case to see if something was blocking the journal from accessing the activity or if I needed to add some fun ...