Blog of David B. Harrison

Today... I'm creating Ant build scripts, that copy in different configuration files for different web environments. The goal is for a client's change management and revision control administrator to do product builds, for each required environment. Depevelopers shouldn't just be passing an EAR file to that person. That person should be able to do a build from the command line.

Today,
I'm having a dell laptop repaired...
Working on masters thesis proposal...
Installing Suse 10.3 on a spare server
Tweaking drupal

For Spring 2008, I'm taking the following classes.

*I intend to switch to the Masters Thesis class.

I came across someone's tag-line, which read "Tell me about your SCSI drive...."
Here is my response for your amusement...

During my visit to UIS, I had the opportunity to visit the server room. Here are a few of the photographs.

Server Room overview

Server Rack photos

The comments on old articles and blog entries have fallen off. That is just fine, as I had a lot of spam comments to sift through and delete anyway.

For Fall 2007, I'm taking the following classes.

Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Agents
12048 - CSC 570 - D

Network Programming
12660 - CSC 583 - B

I just completed a USB driver for a custom device, on Mac OS X. I used IOKit as the low-midlevel USB library, and interfaced to the device in application mode. Transfer speeds are almost exactly what are seen on the Windows driver, around 3 milliseconds per transfer, going through the main control pipe.

Main development platform:

• Apple Powerbook G4, 1.25 GHz, 1 GB RAM.
• OS X 10.4.8
• XCode 2.4
• DeveloperTools CD

2006-12-04
The test program went out to our test-group. I'm most curious to see how the driver performs on Intel based Macs. I believe I'll need t

For CSC 485 (Object Oriented Design), the final project is design & development of a backgammon game. The design is primilarily in UML and implemented in Java.

The architecture is MVC, with an example view provided by the instructor.

My teammate and I are using CVS for source code control, email daily, and weekly phone coordination. This is my second time working remotely with someone that I haven't met before and it is proving to be enjoyable. There are of course nuances of communication that are lost by being in separate locations. We are considering video conferencing.

Development environment: Eclipse 3.2.x

• CSC 574 A: Distributed Computing
• CSC 540 B: Graduate Research Seminar