rlazo's blog

Just a quick post. I've been working on the client and server code of SCIRE to include the new job model, is going well and today there was a interesting chat with my mentor and all the team at #gentoo-scire. This week's code delivery will be delayed a little bit, I want to include the latest modification suggested on IRC. Once I have everything set up I will do a more detailed post.

On the other hand, it's getting harder to balance the Summer of Code with the University, so far so good but I have to be very organized with my time :). Tomorrow I will give a lightning talk about plan 9 (an operating system from Bell labs that was designed to make Unix obsolete.) I'm not an expert on it... but I think is very interesting and I'm sure this will be the first time my teacher will hear about Plan 9... so It's going to be fun

Over and out

A week and a half has been since the Summer of Code officially began. I'm feeling more and more part of this and I'm as excited as when I was elected a month or so ago. But... we need to get down to business :)

All this time I've been working on two fronts. One is the database; basically defining how to create the relationships between jobs, its metadata and the target clients; the scheduling schema is going to use a crontab-like string as is by far the best way to do it and also is a well known syntax for the users. The database modifications weren't taken lightly as everything is going to be based on the database so they were very well talked with codeman and agaffney. If everything goes as it should *wink* the database schema shouldn't be modified from now on.

On the other side I've been working on the client and server side of the app. I've been using pychecker to review the code. It's easy to make mistakes if you are used to use a compiler to check your code :). On the server side I've added support to command-line arguments. I'm trying to check the client-server connection before doing any other work, and for some reason the SSL authentication is throwing me an error if the server and the client are on different machines; but if they run on the same they work... weird. Once that is over I'll focus on fix all the functions I broke with the modification to the database.

On a side note I finally have everything ready to work, the kvm virtual machines are working flawlessly and with the extra Gigabyte of RAM I just bought there's not a single delay while working with several virtual machines. Great!