I was having trouble getting the Google Android SDK to save screenshots for me, leaving me with the only way to save them being to open MS Paint and go through the processes there to save them. Somehow, doing this only once was enough to make me want to write a better solution, so my […]
A major assignment might look something like this with its components in place: The individual assignments themselves are barely different from a stand-alone assignment (as they should be), except that they point to the larger assignment. For now the reference to the major assignment is by number, but I intend to use a database […]
This morning I decided that today is the day to begin working in GITI again, primarily adding functionality that I feel will be crucial to the structure of graduate school work. The feature I intend to add is assignment dependency, which essentially means that major assignments could be broken down into smaller assignments that could […]
I’ve been putting off the upgrade to GITI v3 for a while now. Chris has written an absolutely beautiful background framework upon which I can build the new version of GITI, but unfortunately, things just haven’t been clicking with me. I was talking with Chris last night about the end of the semester (which only […]
Ever since I met Sarah Scott at UNC-Charlotte, I have had to consider the option of a situation where an assignment entered into GITI might not work out exactly as planned, and then the “Instructor Hold” status was born. Internally the status was originally called “scott” (valid codes were “yes”, “no”, “drop”, “inc” and “scott”). […]
So far in this course I have 2 grades, an autobiography discussion post and an extra credit assignment which involved replying to the instructor’s message. GITI’s calculation of such grades is a bit imprecise. If 100 is an A+, and 92 is an A, what is 600? In this particular course the grading is based […]
I have never been one for much security when it comes to my technology. I like to keep my network secure, but I’m not one to necessarily have a lot of different passwords or use things like virus scanners or firewalls (outside of a firewall router). This makes me a not very good person for […]
I have many times in my past thought of starting a personal journal. I started at first a long time ago with a paper journal, and considered keeping a word processing document, but nothing ever seemed to work for me. In August 2004 with the opening of this blog I got a little closer to […]
I have been thinking about my “status” architecture for GITI. At present I can tell GITI my status directly, through the UI, or by sending it an email (must be done from my phone at this time, as it only accepts 1 address). GITI will in turn post to Twitter, which Facebook picks up on. […]
Sometimes I get distracted, so distracted in fact that I forget to do things that one might consider important, especially when writing code. It would seem that about a year ago when I wrote code for adding batches of assignments to GITI I thought far enough ahead to add a “batch stamp” to the assignment […]