Martinos Dev Meetings Topics

This is a list of future Martinos Dev meeting topics. Martinos Dev meets at 2pm on Wednesdays in the CSRL meeting room in Building 149. Please add requests or volunteer to present your own topics.

Recent and Upcoming Topics

• 10/18/2006: GheorghePostelnicu - types of wikis; creation of local projects wiki - See [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html this] and [http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/which-wiki/update-2006-07/ this].

• 2/28/2007: DennisJen: Code review of /homes/10/dsjen/public/code/itkPoistatsFilter.txx starting from the GenerateData() function. ITK style guide at /homes/10/dsjen/public/ITKStyle.pdf

• 7/11/2007: KevinTeich: Presentation on KWWidgets

• 7/25/2007: RudolphPienaar: Code Review

• 8/8/2007: DennisJen: KWStyle [http://public.kitware.com/KWStyle/]

• 9/5/2007: Tentative -- TBA

Requests

• Smart/Auto pointers in VTK
• Different types of code review processes for different situation (security, optimization, etc)
• Unit testing libraries and tools
• Defensive programming techniques
• Eclipse: matlab plugin, emacs like keybindings or actual plugin of emacs editor

Past Topics

• 10/26/2005: JoshSnyder - Code review.

• 11/2: NickSchmansky - Use of splint to verify and standardize code.

• 11/9: DennisJen - Comparison of IDEs and project management tools.

• 11/16: Cancelled
• 11/23: Vacation

• 11/30: DavidTuch - Interruption management

• 12/7: Town hall meeting

• 12/14: FreeSurferWiki tutorial

• 12/21: Vacation
• 12/28: Vacation

• 1/4/2006: DennisJen - Process and content management using Plone

• 1/11: No mtg due to NAMIC AHM
• 1/18: Canceled due to scheduling conflict

• 1/25: JoshSnyder and DennisJen - NumericalRecipesReplacement plan

• 2/1: JoshSnyder - NRRD into FreeSurfer discussion

• 2/8: JoshSnyder and DennisJen - VTK and Qt as a platform volume viewing and editing

• 2/15: Canceled
• 2/22: Canceled
• 3/1: Canceled

• 3/8: NickSchmansky - see [wiki:Doxygen doxygen]

• 3/15: Cancelled/awaiting sign-up

• 4/12: KevinTeich - Code naming [:DevelopersGuide/CodingGuide/NamingConventions: NamingConventions]

• 4/19: JoshSnyder - General Development Practices, see http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=69&page=1

• 4/26: JoshSnyder, DennisJen - Code review of some numerical recipe replacments. Following [http://www.processimpact.com/articles/inspects.html this] process, NickSchmansky will act as reader, KevinTeich as moderator, DennisJen as recorder, and JoshSnyder as inspector. Other participants are welcome to take part as additional inspectors. It would also be great to get another volunteer for recorder who hasn't worked on the code.

• 5/3/2006: NickSchmansky - talk about current and future state of search tools, and how we could benefit from 'smart' tools, like those offered by [http://www.autonomy.com Autonomy]. See also [http://www.searchtools.com/info/classifiers.html this primer], and [http://www.autonomy.com/content/Products/IDOL/f/Classification.html this one]. And see [http://www.searchtools.com/tools/tools-opensource.html this list of existing open-source search tools], which could be setup today as a front-end to our wiki and mailing-list.

• 5/10: DougGreve - Spatial transforms in FreeSurfer

• 5/17: JoshSnyder - Code review. See martinos-dev e-mail for details.

• 5/24: Canceled

• 5/31: All - Advances in software environment for P41 advisory board meeting - See SoftwareEnvironmentAdvances

Resources from past meetings

• [wiki:Licensing Licensing issues]

• Doxygen

  • [wiki:Doxygen doxygen]

• Fast Volume Editing Prototype using VTK, QT, and Python

  • SVN Repository: file:///space/odin/8/users/freediffusion/repos/svnrepos-freediffusion-fastvolumeedit

• NRRD file format

  • [http://teem.sourceforge.net/nrrd/format.html Full format definition]

  • [http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/NAMIC_Wiki:DTI:Nrrd_format DTI specific use]

• NumericalRecipesReplacement

• Process and Content Management Using Plone

  • [http://abbey:8089/freediffusion Local Plone Test Site]

• Interruption Management

  • [http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=life+hacks]

  • [http://www.43folders.com/]

  • [http://interruptions.net/literature/Dekel-OOPSLA04.pdf]

  • [http://domino.research.ibm.com/cambridge/research.nsf/0/8fa06db80b048edf85256ed80064a301?OpenDocument]

• Process Tool and IDE Comparisons

  • [http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~dsjen/process/ProjectManagementOutline.html Process Tool Comparisons Outline]

    • Plone plugins we'll use:

      • [http://plone.org/products/zepp Zepp Workflow]

      • [http://plone.org/products/poi Poi Issue Tracking]

  • [http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~dsjen/process/IDEMindMapOutline.html IDE Comparisons]

    • Interesting Eclipse plugins:

      • [http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/ CDT (C++ Plugin)]

      • [http://www.eclipse-plugins.info/eclipse/plugin_details.jsp?id=1166 CDTSplint (Splint Plugin]

      • [http://subclipse.tigris.org Subclipse (SVN Plugin)]

      • [http://subclipse.tigris.org PyDev (Python plugin)]

• Code Review

  • [http://www.processimpact.com/articles/inspects.html Process]

  • Pretty printing source code from Linux: enscript -r -2 -C -E<language> -P <printer> <filename>, where language is c or cpp, printer is the name of your printer as you would pass it to lpr, and filename is the .c or .cpp file. This will queue the file to the printer. For two-sided printing (if avaialble), add-o sides=two-sided-long-edge to the end.

• In-house Code

  • RudolphPienaar has put together a [http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~rudolph/software/toolsAndUtilities/internal/internal.html page] to keep track of code developers have available for in-house use. Please feel free to email him to contribute your own code.

• Rapid Abstract Prototyping

  • [http://www.foruse.com/articles/abstractprototypes.pdf Software Development article (pdf)]

• Wikis

  • [http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?]

  • [http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/which-wiki/update-2006-07/ July 2006 Update to "Which Wiki"]

• KWWidgets
  • demo code at ~kteich/work/kwdemo