Digital Arts Service Corps - ruby

Mon Jul 6 15:01:58 EDT 2009

Jack Waugh — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:47:40 +0000

participated in a discussion of how the CCTS (the org I'm serving)
should develop its "business" in the future.
helped the hiring process by placing ads and by participating in
the interview of a candidate;
studied some existing, alternative, Content Management Systems
(CMS) not invented at CCTS, as candidate replacements for the CMS
that was invented at CCTS;
demonstrated a pattern for adding automated tests for the CCTS
CMS, documenting the tests, and at the same time, documenting the
requirements;
investigated somewhat into how we might be able to achieve
a cleaner separation between
the core CMS and the customizations of it to the needs of specific
clients;
maintained a file server (made backups, etc.) for the office files
maintained an environment for our software development
(using the Ubuntu distribution);
supported workstations running one of Microsoft's operating systems
helped move the office;
constructed a "sandbox" installation of the CCTS CMS for
demonstrating its ease of use;
contributed time to the maintenance of the CMS;
participated in an interim edit of the old, static, CCTS web site
taught other personnel about programming techniques and principles
(e. g., finite-state machines).

Please keep in mind that since the purpose of the CCTS is to build the
capacity of other organizations, anything I do that helps CCTS,
contributes to capacity building in the social-profit sector.

Menus and Uploads

Jack Waugh — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:54:10 +0000

I implemented the "main menu" for our CMS. Nine rules determine which pages the menu indexes when a given page is being displayed.

Currently, I am working on the ability to import HTML files exported from Microsoft Word (even though everyone should switch to OpenOffice.org).

Still Working on CMS

Jack Waugh — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:46:26 +0000

I am still working on the CMS.

I am investigating how we can accept uploads of Microsoft Word documents and extract the content from them to convert to our format.

Most recently I contributed some test cases to the tests that get run repeatedly to defend against breaking the code.

In my last report, I didn't say what areas of the code I was contributing on. Since the previous report to that one, I have worked on the editable pages. I also added code that lets an administrator compose their own menu, and code that generates a menu automatically based on the context of a page within an hierarchy of pages. I added the code that lets the administrator choose from among a few predefined layouts for a given page (this choice being inherited, by default, by the page's descendants in the hierarchy), and choose the menu and sidebar for a given layout to include.

I posted at http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2606 a comparison of programming languages Smalltalk and Ruby.