Today, I had the rare opportunity to act as a moderator for one of the Backpack to Briefcase sessions organized by the Arts & Science department. For those who do not know, the Backpack to Briefcase sessions are “An interdisciplinary learning series that brings together students and alumni in a relaxed setting to share questions, [...]
So apparently there’s a new way to connect to CDF via NX server. Kudos to the CDF admin team for laying out some super-easy steps to set up the connection (the setup was surprisingly pain-free on Vista). I got everything up and running in a few seconds. The connection itself starts off a bit slow, [...]
Someone suggested that we do a “photo tour” of Bahen during the last DCS Ambassadors meeting (this was for the highschool visitation training) , and it got me thinking of an old demo by Microsoft. They were showcasing a tool called Photosynth, which would stitch together images of a particular location to generate a pseudo-3D [...]
The second assignment in CSC302 focused on implementing change requests (CRs) for the JFreeChart project. Given a list of 10 CRs from the JFreeChart bug tracking repo, our team had to select two CRs that we would have to fix. As with many projects, implementing the fix to a given CR is only half of [...]
Phew, I sure had to sit through a lot of training sessions/workshops today. Well, I only had two but that’s two more than none… The first one was the continuation of previous DCS Ambassadors training session for doing high school visits and presentations. Our homework from the previous session was to prepare a short, 5-minute [...]