http://hackerdan.com Dan's Blog Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:44:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The following is a tutorial on using java CUP with JFlex for the project 2 assignment in CS4413/CS5413 at Lakehead University Install and Setup It is assumed that you have java and jflex (see http://hackerdan.com/programing/using-jflex/) installed and working. Download CUP from http://www2.cs.tum.edu/projects/cup/ (direct link: http://www2.cs.tum.edu/projects/cup/java-cup-11a.jar) Move java-cup-11a.jar onto your class path or add the ... http://hackerdan.com/programing/using-java-cup/ The following is a tutorial on using JFlex for the project 1 assignment in CS4413/CS5413 at Lakehead University Step 1: Download and Setup JFlex The first step is to download and setup jflex (assuming you have java installed and setup correctly). The link to download it is: http://jflex.de/jflex-1.4.3.zip Once you have the zip file ... http://hackerdan.com/programing/using-jflex/ On May 30th, 2009 Richard Stallman (RNS) was awarded an honorary degree from Lakehead University in Thunder Bay Ontario and gave the convocation address to the Lakehead's 2009 graduates. RMS's address focused on the need for educational institutions to switch to free and open software rather then addicting there students ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/rms-at-lakehead-university/ After having tones of trouble with sound drivers and getting my mic to work i have finally been able to get sound in my screen cast and it uploaded. You can view the flash version of the screen cast here: http://compsci.ca/~dan/screencast.swf This screen cast is a demo of the first version of ... http://hackerdan.com/gsoc/screen-cast/ Today is the official pencil down date for the 2008 Google Summer of Code and is the last day code can be submitted to be counted in the final evaluation. This is also the week i move back to Thunder Bay to start a new term at Lakehead University, ... http://hackerdan.com/gsoc/end-of-my-summer-of-code/ Google Summer of Code 2008 is coming to an end with the "Suggested 'pencils down' date" on the 11th and the "Firm 'pencils down' date." on the 18th and yet i still feel like there is so much that could be added to my project. Whats done: report/stats gradebook plug-in works and ... http://hackerdan.com/gsoc/gsoc-2008-comming-to-an-end/ CONTRIB-497 *Added more visualizations *Added selector UI Widget for flex/flare visualization *Refactored some of flex actionscript code. *Added defaults for selected group and items in visualizations. *Improved removal of nodes and edges when an item or group is deselected in a legend. *Fixed a memory leak realting to the removal and addtion of nodes. *Added more options ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/cvs-contrib-497-2august08/ I have finished two more visualizations based on the grade distribution. They are: Grade Distribution by Group in a bar graph: Grade Distribution by Item in a bar graph: I have also added a new user interface widget witch i call a selector that looks like a legend however only one item ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/more-visualizations-and-a-widget/ This post is a break form development news on the Moodle stats plug-ins to talk about a new DNS vulnerability that could affect all Rogers users in Canada (or at least Ontario). Update: euphoracle from the #CompSci.ca IRC room called up Rogers tech support and after getting threw the first few ... http://hackerdan.com/tech/rogers-dns-vulnerability/ I have updated the test site with the new visualization! CONTRIB-497 *Added new visualization, Grade Distribution *Fixed some minor bugs *Made abstract visualization class for creating visualizations by making classes witch extend it. *Made visual_settings.php witch takes a visualization class and truns it in to XML witch flex can read in. *Made flex visualization application read ... http://hackerdan.com/uncategorized/cvs-contrib-497-contrib-496-24july08/