KWSN Orbiting Fortress

Pooh Bear 27 · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: Programmers?

Since Amanheis has not been heard from for over a year, it seems that BoincView is a stale software. With the new versions of BOINC and project softwares coming out, and many changes ahead, I am wondering if we could as a team create a program as good, if not better than BoincView to work with the newer versions.

Some things are already broken. The new 6.x versions of CPDN (on Beta) do not show the t/s. Some of the new network calls coming up in the Beta 6.3.x versions are causing several issues.

We'd be heroes if we could build a new software as good, or better than BoincView. Alas, I am not a programmer, but I plead and Ni! my fellow loonies to search in their "BRAINS!" as hard as they can to create some new Shrubbery helpful tools!

Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:12 am Post subject:

I can not program, I can beta and alpha test the thing to death though.

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Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

The furthest I had taken in software development (and this was over 6 years ago) was CS251, or intermidiate programming. Also, they might/might not use C++, doubt I could develop this. Most of what I took was more on the computer networking side (have degree in it) and the hardware side of things... I also took enough classes for a minor in biology, but that would hardly help here

Perhaps someone here is a software dev

KWSN Im Not Dead · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:42 am Post subject:

I am a software developer, sadly though I have been in a proprietary software package for 10+ years now. So while at one time I used to know C/C++/VB/.Net/etc..., all I can program in now is PeopleSoft/ADP/SQR.

However on the positive side if you want a functional Accounting/Purchasing or HR/Payroll system, I am your guy!! Wink

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:25 am Post subject:

I have been thinking of picking up a VBS for Dummies and reading it on the side. Can't be that hard I know kids who do it. It shouldn't take me more than a couple 3 years I guess. #ni-1

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Sir Furry Mark · Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 6:46 am Post subject:

I've been an embedded software and application developer for the last 30 years (amongst many other hats I wear Rolling Eyes

), but that doesn't mean I want to do it in my spare time too! Embarassed

(Not that I have much spare time at the moment anyway... Mad

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Son Goku · Duke Joined: 13 Mar 2006 Posts: 426

Some compilers.... When I took CS151 the teacher required us to compile it in xLC... For whatever reason she chose not to have the class use gcc which was also on the AIX servers.

So, to do the thing at home, I started making the thing in Borland C++ (this was over a decade ago), and then had to compile the thing in xLC... Problem is that xLC isn't exactly standards compliant. For instance if someone made a rather standard line of code:

for (int i=0, i < x, i++)
{
//....
}

most compilers would define the variable i for the duration of the for loop. Not xLC.... xLC would consider it defined, not even to just the end of the fuction, but instead as if it was a global variable defined for the duration of the entire source code file....

Needless to say, if one needed to port it; and forget just Borland c++ alone, but even among gcc, one would have to go through the entire code and change it because in xLC another for loop latter in the program would come up with an error for variable already defined; fix it for xLC and all other C++ compilers would complain it isn't defined. That was only one area where that POS compiler was rather standards non-compliant.

xLC was one royal headache...

That paled in the face of what happened in EECE238 though... That semester, to begin the teacher died just before the semester began, so they got a replacement who also worked at Sandia. He wanted to use the text book (the prior teacher hadn't). So he was told he would have to speak with the college bookstore. For a class of 200 students + 1 teacher, they figured 20 text books aught to do (whatever bueracrat working at the bookstore).

When students couldn't buy the book, they complained, the teacher complained, and the bookstore chose to only order them at the rate of 5 more per week. It was after mid-terms before the whole class had a book, with homework assignments to be done out of the text, and multiple quizes on the contents of the text book as well as lecture (not lecture alone) as well.

To make matters worse; the lab TA I had, was first semester in the US, having arrived from India. And as it turned out, in India the person was only taught written English, not spoaken. It was also around mid-terms when she decided she has to take English as a second language, else she would be doomed unable to communicate with anyone in her class.

I told a fellow student about this (wasn't in that lab section), and the person was like