SE2006:group bar:minutes

Feb 15

Possible meeting time: Working M/W/F in the evening for 1 or 2 hours starting the 27th. Toby, Kevin, and I are going to be working this weekend on clustcomp projects and then going to a conference on Feb 22-26.

• Languages:
  • php - most of us are familiar. big libraries. web stuff.
  • java with tomcat - web stuff. good development environment.
  • python - learn a new language.
  • perl - most of us are familiar. less good, but good web stuff.
  • ruby - learn a new language. there may be other reasons but we don't know what they are because we don't know ruby.

• Caching Location data:
  • with memcache (http://www.danga.com/memcached/)
  • postgres
  • mysql

• Communication
  • using a mailing list for now.
  • developing new methods as they seem fit (wiki,cvs,bulletin board).

• Group name:
  • kartgoolers.
  • cartooglers.
  • pwners
  • colin's team.
  • group-b
  • group bar

• Assignment:
  • send us your group name choice to list. we accept write ins. if anyone feels super strong about a name then tell us why.
  • submit your leader (self?)nominations.

Feb 28

• We have decided on some of the roles:
  • Aybars: Libarian
  • Alex & ColinC: Developers
  • Tobias: Leader
  • Kevin: Architect

• We have roughly agreed on meeting Monday, Tuesday and Wednesdays.

• We have discussed which language to use, and decided that we'll decide on that later after we break the project up a little bit more (possibly tomorrow).

• Tomorrow we will discuss the documentation.

• We will look at the lab 2 solutions soon.

• Error checking?

Mar 1

• We worked on breaking this project into smaller pieces.

• For database we are going to use SQL and for the rest of the project, we will probably use Java.

• We will use Javadoc for documentation of the API

• Next meeting we are going to talk about:
  • Lab 2 solutions
  • Time budgeting
  • Eclipse review
  • Java prep
  • Kevin will bug Skylar about getting Java API installed on Quark.
  • We have two solutions so far on the table
  • We will talk more about documentation