Choose your own open-source App/Mashup
Adventure
~ SE CS130 UCLA FALL 2013 ~
Project Lead: Gergana Markova ( gmarkova@us.ibm.com )
Tech mentors: TBD by project
Dean Okamura ( dokamura@us.ibm.com )
Michael Stein ( mastein@us.ibm.com )
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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?
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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
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Open Source online resources and forums
IBM Academic Initiative Student Forum
IBM Developer Works resources
IBM Smart Planet resources
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Your Project, “Choose your own adventure”
 General Project Technology / Requirements
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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.com
Previous CS130 class Project available there:
http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/music-enthusiast
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Projects Learning Skills
 Software 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
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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
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Web 2.0+ MASHUP
PROJECT
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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
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Suggested Approach
 Environment setup
 Service discovery
 Your Mashup or Open Application Concept
 Design / Storyboard
 Component Level Design
 Implementation
 Test
 Code Inspection
 Deployment (Go Live)
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Web service Providers
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Real Mashup Examples
 http://www.allapis.com/Yahoo_Flick
r_Weather_Maps.aspx
 Allows 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
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Skills Required
 Java / Dojo/ Ruby or similar Programming, nothing fancy
 Basic web service concepts: SOAP, WSDL
 Basic web-application concepts: URLs, HTTP, JavaScript, serverside scripting (JSP, PHP, other)
 Basic XML (syntax, parsing)
 AJAX (would be nice)
 CSS (optional)
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Gain Experience
 J2EE
 Web services
 SOAP
 Axis
 JAX-RPC
 XML
 Web UI
 AJAX
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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. “
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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 Hydrant
 Snapfresh snapfresh.org
 Where is my bus http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=wheres-my-schoolbus
 Reroute.IT http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=transportation-choices
 TED Talk
http://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_pahlka_coding_a_better_government.html
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Solarcity Project
http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=solar-city#
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Calculate solar potential for
rooftops
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DiscoverBPS
discoverbps.org.
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Choose your own adventure
 Any of your own ideas. We are
here to help!
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Conclusion
 Thank you for your time!
 We’re here for you!
 Questions?
 Project Ideas?
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Smart Planet
 http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/
 http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/overview/ideas/index.html?ca=v_now&r
e=ussph2.2
 http://www.ted.com/
 People for a Smarter Planet Community
http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=People+for+a+Smarte
r+Planet&init=quick&tas=search_preload#!/peopleforasmart
erplanet
 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-codegovernment/index.html
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