I can use my XO to post things here. This is the first of many posts from the laptop.

Third Quarter Plan

TITLE

GASP on the XO

DATE

January 30 to April 11, 2008

DESCRIPTION

Rewrite and package GASP to be fast and functional on the XO laptop.

GOALS

Have a usable and feature-complete product that works on the XO
Become proficient with Pygame, GASP, and the XO

RESOURCES

Matt Gallagher
David Cooper
Beginning Game Development with Python and Pygame
the existing GASP and Pygame code
My shiny shiny XO laptop
#pygame@irc.freenode.net
laptop.org

Second Quarter Assessment

What I learned was mostly Plone administration. Where files are, how to make things work, settings fiddling, and so on. I'm now a moderately competent administrator, but not as good of a developer as I would have liked. Still, you can see what's been built at the site. It's perfectly functional; all it needs are new versions of the old content.

My plan was rather dependent on the site going into production at some point, after polish and content importing through part of the third quarter. I did get the site running very well, but I'm disappointed at the pointlessness, honestly. I also didn't do as much programming as I would have liked, mostly because of the switch from writing my own very basic web software to working with a monolithic piece of code like Plone.

It was a challenge to continue to make progress when the project was stalled due to server outages and so on. Plone, though, made a lot of the work very easy through being polished and easy to mold to my needs.

I do not plan to continue-- the site's not going up anyway, and I have a great opportunity to use Python and GASP on the XO, which is more like what I would rather be doing in this class.

Yes. In fact, much of what I've learned as applicable to running Emma Violand-Sanchez's site (though it's on Drupal), as well as other Plone and Zope apps in the future.