May Update / New England Give Camp

Well, the weather has been getting nice and I've been focusing on what I want to try to get done before the end of my term at the Community Software Lab.

My recent work has focused mostly on creating a set of development tools to be used internally to help streamline the process of creating new development user environments to accomodate the influx of summer volunteers we just received. I took a 20 - 30 step process that spanned across a few checklists and automated it into a single command where you give the name of the development user and a few details that can't be calculated (that user's account name on launchpad.net and their primary, non-CSL email address) and it builds everything for you. Pretty slick. Right now I'm slogging through the creation of automated tests for all the subroutines in the module I created. A bit grinding but necessary.

On the personal front, I've continued my search for a job post-VISTA and have been to a few great meetups in the Boston area. One thing in particular I'm excited about is the upcoming New England GiveCamp on June 11th - 13th. Basically, its an event where teams of developers are put together to hack out a web application for a non-profit charity over the course of a weekend. I'm using this opportunity to improve my Drupal development skills while helping out a charity at the same time. Seriously, if you've got the weekend of the 11th free they still could use some volunteers, both technical and non-technical. Check out their website for more details: http://newenglandgivecamp.org/

Let me know if you plan on attending!