Choose your own open-source App/Mashup Adventure ~ SE CS130 UCLA FALL 2013 ~

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Choose your own open-source App/Mashup Adventure

~ SE CS130 UCLA FALL 2013 ~Project Lead: Gergana Markova ( [email protected] )Tech mentors: TBD by project

Dean Okamura ( [email protected] ) Michael Stein ( [email protected] )

© 2012 IBM Corporation2

Agenda

Introduction The IBM team Create Your Own Adventure Project Defined What is it there for you

Web 2.0 Application or Mashup Project

Questions?


IBM Project Team

Project Lead: Gergana Markova

Each team will have dedicated Lead Technical Mentor and Lead Project Mentor: TBD

Technical Mentors The Go-To experts for any technical questions and challenges

Project Mentors Project environment, scheduling Facilitation & collaboration Team dynamics

Other Open Source online resources and forums IBM Academic Initiative Student Forum IBM Developer Works resources IBM Smart Planet resources


Your Project, “Choose your own adventure”

General Project Technology / Requirements Open Source Web 2.0 Mashups Programming Language of your choice Consider Source forge . Net

Use its Wiki, forums to provide status; CVS to check code Defect Tracking (SF.net tracker, Bugzilla, etc…) Project Discussion Forum/Log of your choice (e.g., Wiki) Unit testing of your choice (e.g., JUnit) In the end, it’s your decision what to do!

Deliverables Mandatory

Your project in a public repository, fully documented Encouraged

Submission to www.programmableweb.comPrevious CS130 class Project available there: http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/music-enthusiast


Projects Learning SkillsSoftware Engineering Skills

Team Project Planning and execution

Collaboration, Networking

Rapid Decision Making

Open source community involvement (process, resources..)

Agile Development

Globalization Awareness

Code Inspection Techniques

Research and resources evaluation

Concepts Emphasized Open Source Process

Global Community Involvement

Design Patterns

eXtreme Programming

User Experience


Why Open-source?Standardization of the rail network

enabled industrialized America and Europe

A connecting platform fueling growth, creating new business opportunities Connecting resources with factory

efficiencies Connecting goods with markets Enabling new distribution models (Sears

Roebuck)

Other technology platforms: electricity grid, national highway systems, ……..the internet

“Standards contribute more to economic growth than patents and licenses.”

"Economic benefits of standardization“, Technical University Dresden (TUD) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovations


Web 2.0+ MASHUPPROJECT


Mashup

A hybrid application that combines content from more than one source.

Very popular Web 2.0 idea

Mash-up (you can use a hyphen if you want)

The real power in Web services comes from combining

Web services are typically specialized, mashups are “situational”

Development without central authority


Suggested ApproachEnvironment setup

Service discovery

Your Mashup or Open Application Concept

Design / Storyboard

Component Level Design

Implementation

Test

Code Inspection

Deployment (Go Live)


Web service Providers


Real Mashup Exampleshttp://www.allapis.com/

Yahoo_Flickr_Weather_Maps.aspxAllows users to search US

cities/locations - provides users with information on the city requested

Weather Forecasts Wikipedia geo Articles Flickr photos

APIs used

Flickr GeoNames Yahoo Geocoding Yahoo Maps


Skills Required

Java / Dojo/ Ruby or similar Programming, nothing fancy

Basic web service concepts: SOAP, WSDL

Basic web-application concepts: URLs, HTTP, JavaScript, server-side scripting (JSP, PHP, other)

Basic XML (syntax, parsing)

AJAX (would be nice)

CSS (optional)


Gain Experience

J2EE

Web services

SOAP

Axis

JAX-RPC

XML

Web UI

AJAX


You can make a difference, too : Clever Example #1

Create Your Own SW Hack of Kindness Project

http://www.rhok.org/ Random Hacks of Kindness

Sample project : Coordinate

http://www.rhok.org/solutions/coordinate

“Coordinate is a simple mobile app and database that allows emergency response officials to plot hazards in an accurate and structured manner. It allows an EOC and other response agencies to receive validated reports from responders out in the disaster area. Information can be updated out in the disaster area allowing for a better common operating picture of what hazards still need to be resolved. “


Clever Example Ideas #2 : Code For America

http://codeforamerica.org/http://codeforamerica.org/projects/Code For L.A. group started up in 2013

Apps Ideas

Adopt a HydrantSnapfresh snapfresh.org

Where is my bus http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=wheres-my-school-bus

Reroute.IT http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=transportation-choices

TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_pahlka_coding_a_better_government.html


Solarcity Projecthttp://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=solar-city#

• Calculate solar potential for rooftops


DiscoverBPS discoverbps.org.


Choose your own adventure

Any of your own ideas. We are here to help!


Conclusion

Thank you for your time!

We’re here for you!

Questions?

Project Ideas?


Smart Planet http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/

http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/overview/ideas/index.html?ca=v_now&re=ussph2.2

http://www.ted.com/

People for a Smarter Planet Community

http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=People+for+a+Smarter+Planet&init=quick&tas=search_preload#!/peopleforasmarterplanet

http://www.smartplanet.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smarter_Planet Provides great URL references at end of article

http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/25/opinion/pahlka-code-government/index.html

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Choose your own open-source App/Mashup Adventure ~ SE CS130 UCLA FALL 2013 ~