[Campus-morris-staff] suggestions for projects?

[Jim Hall]

For students who know PHP, I have also been thinking about cleaning up
the FreeDOS
News page <http://www.freedos.org/news/> on our website, so I can finally
move off the old code, and promote the new News code as the basis of the
front page news feed. This will require some refactoring of the existing
News code, since it's a little kludgy.

It's not very big code (it just displays a news feed, using MagpieRSS as
the RSS aggregator) and should be do-able within an hour. I was going to
put aside some time eventually to do the cleanup; may as well get help from
someone during this weekend's event. [?]



Details:

The FreeDOS News page should display a feed of all news items from our
SourceForge project news RSS, at <http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/feed>.
The SourceForge RSS links back to items in the SourceForge news system (no
surprise there) but I prefer to have the FreeDOS News page link back to
items on the FreeDOS News page. For example, rather than having a FreeDOS
News item link to <
http://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/news/2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/>
it should link to something like <
http://www.freedos.org/news/?item=2014/09/carbonos-based-on-freedos/>

I wrote code to munge the SourceForge RSS to do this <
http://www.freedos.org/news/rss.php> but it was a quick effort, and I never
went back to completely update the FreeDOS News page to use the new code.
I'm still using a kludge mix of old and new code, so FreeDOS News items
aren't actually linking back to the FreeDOS News page.



​jh


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On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 6:56 PM, Elena Machkasova <elenam at morris.umn.edu>
wrote:

> Jim,
>
> all of this sounds fantastic! We'll have quite a few people who would like
> to play with cool Java, and it's great to have a documentation-based
> project for beginners.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has anything along the lines of refactoring or
> writing tests. I would've had this for my Clojure project
> https://github.com/Clojure-Intro-Course/clojure-intro-class, but my
> summer research students cleaned up and tested it pretty well. I will try
> to come up with a couple of simple Clojure tasks, though, for the Racket
> crowd.
>
> Elena
>
>
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