Last night, I began some volunteer Plone 3 development work for a local robotics organization. My first step was to create a buildout on my Ubuntu 9.04 workstation where I do my development. I ran the usual set of commands to create, bootstrap, and build a new one. Everything went normally, until I attempted to start the buildout in foreground with the following:
python2.4 bin/instance fg
For some reason, the instance did not start.
During late spring 2008, I used up about $600 of my personal savings to buy an ASUS EeePC 900. In retrospect, the EeePC was probably one of the best purchases that I ever made. It's amazingly light (a little over 2 pounds) and gets decent battery life. These two features were especially handy during my trip to the Plone Conference Sprints in Washington DC in October 2008.
I was recently troubleshooting an installation of Plone and tried to install one of the hundreds of Plone products. Immediately after restarting Zope, four ominous words (and a long trace) appeared on the screen: No traversable adapter found. After an hour-or-two of troubleshooting, I found out how to solve the problem.
The title really says it all. Seriously. I recently had the chance to make a very special trip to the Googleplex. It is an event I definitely won't forget for a *really* long time.
I met and socialized with a students and mentors from all over the world—including from Thailand, Russia, South Africa, the UK, Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Belgium and the USA—to celebrate the conclusion of the first-ever Google Highly Open Participation Contest. In addition to all of this social interaction, I had the chance to ride roller coasters at Great America, tour the Googleplex, talk to other GHOP students and mentors, eat at two of Google's famous cafés, and listen to a set of amazing presentations by various tech luminaries who work for Google.
Today, I decided to put together a recap entry about the activities of the two days and what we did during them:
RoboGames was a week ago, and like many others, I had an awesome time. One of my robots, called "Red Fury", even won third place in Junior Division 500g mini-sumo. In between matches, I managed to snap a few photos of some of the major attractions at the event.
I've recently had the chance to test and program Sun's SPOTs. Sun SPOTs are small, programmable, self-contained microcontrollers that can be used to build robots and control other larger devices. These microcontrollers also contain a variety of sensors, including a temperature sensor and an accelerometer.
I've recently had the chance to use Sun Microsystem's SPOT development kit. I've tested their software on Windows XP and it installs rather nicely, just as long as you follow the instructions and use the CD included in the box.
Today, I decided to install the software on a computer running a vanilla install of Ubuntu 8.04. You can use the CD included in the box to do this (if you follow the "tweak some important settings" section), but I wanted to use the Ubuntu repository packages whenever possible. Here are my findings on how to do this; it turns out to be pretty easy.
Today, I was at SDForum's second-annual "Teens Plugged In: Teens in Tech" conference. Everything went pretty smoothly and I met many new, interesting people.
During the long day, I managed take at least five decent photos (I was too busy talking to people), which are showcased below. As usual, you can click on any of the thumbnails to make them larger.
I went to the Bay Area Maker Faire last weekend. In the five hours that I was there for, I met lots of really cool people, took 163 photos, and took over an hour of video footage. It's taken me a few days to sort through all of my media, but I've collected a few of the better photos and decided to post them.
SDForum, a Silicon Valley non-profit that runs various technology events throughout the year, is running their second annual "Teens Plugged In: Teens in Tech" conference. The goal of the conference is to bring local teens, venture-capitalists, entrepreneurs, and product managers to discuss teens and their feelings about technology.