The Boat sank. With that and the power outage this week so far has been an interesting group of mechanical failures. I'm so glad that it isn't my machine this time. Today was a productive day for me. I spent the day working through the random event code in Lemonade Stand. I've managed to add in a few more negative events by going into the constants file and adding some more dictionaries to the list. I then made the negative events decrements a percentage of the items instead of a flat amount. R ...

Tuesday was an immensely more productive day than the preceding Monday. Without power outages, we were able to get down to work quickly, and stay focused. After catching up with my blogs, I began a new search into the Journal of OLPC by pining the #sugar irc room. A fantastic fellow with the irc handle of "dnarvaes" pointed me towards the sugar GIThub repository of the journal which you can find Here. The relevant modules of the sugar repositories are sugar, sugar-toolkit-gtk3, and sugar-datast ...

After looking up the syntax of dictionaries in python I've come to a better understanding of Lemonade Stand's code. I gave up trying to work on the ticket I was assigned because there was just to much overlap that I was very unproductive. So I've switched my focus for now to work more on the random events that happen to the player and balancing some of them to help try and slow down the rate the player earns money. Today was the RocPy meet up. Most of us here for the summer went. We heard a tal ...

A large goal of the Gourciferous project is to create a GUI that will make processing GIT logs and rendering Gource videos a lot easier. For the past few days I have been working on creating some mock-ups for the GUI in Glade. The benefit of using Glade is that the mock-up can easily become a functional GUI by adding a Python program to create functionality. However, using Glade hasn't been a picnic. Originally the software seemed incredibly intuitive. The buttons are simple, and it truly on ta ...

Yesterday was crazy....between losing power and a freak hail/thunderstorm which turned my car seats into sponges, getting things done was difficult. We came into work with a beautiful day above our heads and a readiness to tackle the day. I started the day by digging into the activity I found over the weekend as well as tearing apart the code for the mock journal application. A similarity i noticed strait off was that bot acvities mentioned "logging" as in the standard library. I didn't know wh ...

This concludes our third week working with FOSS@RIT for our summer Co-op. It was a week of mostly planning and course laying for the rest of our summer. We exploited Github and it's wonderful ticket feature to add milestones and tickets for our goals. Since we now have our goals clearly outlined on Github, we can finally get to work on the purpose of our summer Co-op. These tickets are an open feature and I thoroughly encourage you all to create some of your own when to start working on a projec ...

Last Friday was our first real "Work From Home Friday". I woke up that morning with confidence in finding the way the OLPC journal talks to each activity and vice versa. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. I spent the greater part of the day unsuccessfully pinging Google and the interwebz for some information on this ticket of mine. Having another day where I felt like I made no progress whatsoever isn't very encouraging....As a last ditch effort, I pinged sugar in IRC hoping that they would ...

Today was a mess of a day. Halfway through the day the power went out and it didn't come back until about two hours later. This combined with the amount of hours we worked meant that this wasn't the most productive day ever. What I did work on was trying to clean up some of my past blogs to make the seem more official. I also looked through the code getting a better feel of how everything fits together and trying to clean up some of the user interface in spots. ...

More School Server Stupidity Hai! Today I started the McNair scholars program, and now have to run off to a class every monday and wednesday from 1:00 to 3:00 this summer. It's a refreshing change of pace, but I feel like I'm missing out on glorious FOSSbox time. I'll just have to make the most of the time that I do spend there from now on. I will no longer play lemonade stand during my breaks! After all, I already have a screenshot of [$1,000,000,000,000+](http://www.elsolet.net/wp- content/ ...

This week I have been working on Gourciferous, which will become the our GUI of the combination of RIT FOSS Multi-Gource and, of course, Gource itself. Gourciferous will be written entirely in Python and the GUI will be built using Glade. The goal will be to create the most simple way to run Gource and combine GIT logs. Another feature that Gourciferous is going to bring to the table are Templates that will act as ...