• Veritas Research Project (Veritas Squared – http://www.veritas2.com/) – CCSC: SE – Currently helping co-author the Research abstract essay for the CCSC in november, and helping write the software
• Biloxi trips – i have had a lot of Biloxi trips in the past 3 months – Almost every weekend, and i have brought in a ton of money.
• Classes – only 2 this semester.. my last 2 – Calculus 2, and Chemistry 1212.  When Veritas isn’t occupying my time, these two classes are.

Well, that’s it for now.  This was just a quick update.

Oh, and Veritas2 now has a link to our Trac project page so you can see whats going on.

• Capstone Developers Meeting – 11 am/est to 1 pm/est (GPC Dunwoody Campus — give me a shout if anyone is interested in attending)
• Windows Server 03+PostgreSQL Testing – Monday, May 31st – Results should be published sometime later that day.  The server, Pi, will be used for testing.
• Lib.base.php/class.base.php Speed Test: What this is basically seeing if a Class/Object runs faster then just pulling the methods we need at whatever time is faster.  Again, results of this should be published on Monday along side the Win Server 03 Tests.

Anyways, so far so good, there have been a few major steps towards getting Capstone ready for release, such as including a Web Installer.  I’d say the Simplify Web Installer is about 80% done.. The design, and internal workings are still being dealt with.. depending on how the WinServer03/PostgreSQL tests go, we should have this completed within the next week.

Well, thats all for now, i think i am going to go and gamble a little bit.

• The Ajax Assignments Concept – Click here
• WebCT-Capstone Speed Test – Click here
• Several new features commited to the SVN, such as the initial Ajax Assignments Concept, the “Grade Release” feature (Emailing coming soon), and Settings being actually implemented (Change Password, and such not working yet).

Well, that’s it for now from Biloxi, MS.  Hopefully, i’ll win some money

Important Side Note: “Capstone” Development meetings will be held on our IRC server (irc.unserious.org port: 7001 in #chat) weekly.  A schedule will be posted on this blog as soon as we have a day/time set.  Although, it is very likely the first (and possibly others — will be posted on this blog) will be held in person.   As well, i will be uploading the first meetings notes once i complete them so look out for those.

Update: Oh ****, i just now noticed the Menus. i will fix them as soon as possible, but not tonight as i am much more likely to **** something else up tonight.

Update #2: Actually, i went ahead and fixed.  Enjoy.
Update #3 (June 4th): Updated links to reflect our new site for Veritas2 (Formerly, Comperio/Capstone)

Comperio’s presentation went well, i think; unfortunately, we are going to have to rename the project due to other projects existing with this name

On the other hand, we are continuing with the project, and aiming to present at the CCSC (Consortium for Computing Sciences) next Fall, on top of hopefully being able to participate in the programming contest.

So, now heres my question: What should we name it? We are coming up with a list of ideas and will be posted as soon as we have a few more ideas.

Assignments: 90% Complete
Discussion: 50% Complete
Grade system: 98% Complete
Files System: 10% Complete
Admin System: 10% Complete
Teacher Portions: 70% Complete

Signs saying you should go to sleep but cant:

• Causing an Infinite loop .. 4 times in a row before finding out that it was because of an accidental code removal
• Misspelling a variable, and thinking that it was the cause of an infinite loop.

In addition, a near completion screenshot of the GradeBook can be seen here.  Please keep in mind this screenshot shows a BETA version.  In the final release, this will look MUCH nicer, and much more clean.

Update at 11:58AM: You can see a beta version of the Assignment Question add screen here.

Apple just is NOT an Open Source company, even though their operating system is derived from (i believe) an open source kernel: Darwin (BSD based.. if i am correct).  Apple uses the same operating system for all of their products, even if they are a bit modified.  In addition, they have excessive rules about open sourcing an app, and thus this brings me to my next point: they are slowly killing their developer base by requiring a $90 fee to be a developer, close sourcing everything, and then if they don’t like your app, they can kill it.  In essence, you are paying them so you can code your app, possibly have it approved, make little money while Apple makes money.  Does that really sound right to you? It doesn’t to me, honestly.  However, Google has the same practice, except it is much cheaper, and easier to get your app into their systems.  Again, go back to the “do-no-evil” bit, and this is where Google becomes just as EVIL as Apple.   Once again, Google doesn’t really take down Apps, and doesn’t really monitor apps being submitted to them (Auto-approval, i think) unless those apps violate someones’ ip, or violate some law in which then Google is forced to remove.  Again, who is the evil corporation in this instance?

The next issue i’d like to cover in this nice little story is the GUIs and general overall review.  I’ll admit that neither of them have the best GUI, or interface.  Yes, i have spent very little time with each; playing with one in an Apple store, and with my brothers at Christmas.  However, it is night and day between the two, and Google’s simply wins by far.  I found that the Google GUI was a lot nicer, cleaner, and simply better then Apples, but i haven’t gotten to use an iPhone in a long time, so maybe its time to review that.  In addition, i know three people with Android based phones, and each one of them absolutely LOVES theirs, but on the other hand, i have a friend with a iPhone 3GS, and he absolutely LOVES his.  So, again, we come to “to each his own”, because everyone has their likes, and dislikes; again, mine favors Google rather then Apple, because generally Google has given back more to the community as a whole.  (See: Google Summer of Code, Code.google.com — although, i am not really a fan of their APIs.. bit too restrictive on what you can do with it.  Useful if you are doing a personal website, not so useful if you are doing a project that needs mostly transparent stuff.)

In conclusion to this article/blog (my biggest one yet), each person has their own likes, and dislikes, and both companies have issues that need to be corrected.

I can basically say this:

Google: Keep doing what you are doing, since it is apparently working.
Apple: Take a hint from Google, open source more, give back, relax on restrictions on iPhone Apps (killing/bricking modified iPhones isn’t a very nice way of rewarding Developers who want to develop on your platform but aren’t willing to shell out the $90 fee.)

As a side note: i’d really like to hear from Google/Apple users on what they think is best, and worse about their phones, and what they’d like to see in the future.

Before anyone asks, yes this is a bit more bias towards Google, but not so much that i can recognize that even Google fucks up at times.

Don’t expect any updates to Uns3 for the next few weeks, as i try to get Comperio sorted out, among other things.

I’ll try and take screenshots of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS B1 in the next few days; on top of that, i will be setting up a new page on this website for Raid Policies for Fatalclan as it has gotten lost too many times on the forums.

So far, so good. It looks like this has been primarily a bug fix release, and the speed has increased ten fold from what i’ve noticed. I will post more after i get done with my research paper.

As a side note: As soon as 10.04 LTS becomes available for production servers, Veritas will be getting an Upgrade. If the Veritas upgrade goes smoothly, i will also then upgrade Mrsaturn.

go to http://www.unserious.org/blackbox/ to see it. Please keep in mind that this is a very, very early version, more of a mockup, and testing things out right now, so the colors really aren’t final. As well, in the next day or two, i should have documentation on the Theme system for Uns3, as well as very early pre-release of it.

Breaking News: Unserious CMS v2.00 has finally been released to the public. It is provided to you at no charge, and AS IS .. meaning if you fuck something up, it’s your fault. Go get it here