Monthly Archives: June 2007
Preliminary Javadoc completed
Between driving from San Francisco and selling furniture on Craigslist, this weekend I wrote preliminary Javadoc for all of last summer’s GridSweeper work. A very valuable exercise before diving into coding: it made me look through every single method I … Continue reading
High-level GridSweeper execution overview
The purpose of GridSweeper is to take a simple user-provided description of what parameter settings to run a model with, run the model on a grid, and return results to the user. The user will be able to manipulate the … Continue reading
GridSweeper installation hierarchy
As currently conceived, GridSweeper will consist of a set of Java classes in JAR files, additional Java classes as plugins (plugin format to be determined, but will include a JAR file), and shell scripts to simplify this: java -cp ${GRIDSWEEPER_ROOT}/classes/GridSweeper.jar … Continue reading
Setting up the GridSweeper build environment
First things first: this post covers how to get the GridSweeper build environment set up on your machine. I’ve developed GridSweeper entirely with Eclipse, but the build process uses Ant, so it can be run from the command line as … Continue reading
GridSweeper code review
I’m beginning this year’s GridSweeper development by picking up all the pieces from last summer, documenting them, and considering design changes, then getting down to the business of finishing up the implementation. The next few posts will cover what I … Continue reading
Report on git
After seeing this video of Linus Torvalds waxing arrogant about git, the source code management system he wrote for Linux kernel development, I decided I should try it out. The benefits of git over the CVS/Subversion model amount to this: … Continue reading