Choose your own open-source App/Mashup Adventure ~ SE CS130 UCLA Spring 2012 ~

1. Choose your own open-source App/Mashup Adventure ~ SE CS130 UCLA Spring 2012 ~ Project Lead: Gergana Markova gmarkova@us.ibm.com Tech mentors: TBD by project Dean Ocamura Michael Stein Neil Sahota

2. 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? 2

3. 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 • Open Source online resources and forums • IBM Academic Initiative Student Forum • IBM Developer Works resources • IBM Smart Planet resources 3

4. Your Project, “Choose your own adventure” • General Project Technology / Requirements • 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 4

5. 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 5

6. 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 6

7. Web 2.0+ MASHUPPROJECT

8. 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

9. Suggested Approach Environment setup Service discovery Your Mashup or Open Application Concept Design / Storyboard Component Level Design Implementation Test Code Inspection Deployment (Go Live)‏

10. Web service Providers

11. Real Mashup Examples • http://www.allapis.com/Yahoo_Flickr_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

12. Skills Required Java / Dojo/ Ruby or similar Programming, nothing fancy Basic web service concepts: SOAP, WSDL Basic web-application concepts: URLs, HTTP, JavaScript, server-side scripting (JSP, PHP, other)‏ Basic XML (syntax, parsing)‏ AJAX (would be nice)‏ CSS (optional)‏

13. Gain Experience J2EE Web services SOAP Axis JAX-RPC XML Web UI AJAX

14. 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. “

15. Clever Example Ideas #2 : Code For America • http://codeforamerica.org/ • http://codeforamerica.org/projects/ Apps Ideas • Adopt a Hydrant • Snapfresh snapfresh.org • Where is my bus http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=wheres-my-school-bus • Reroute.IT http://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=transportation-choices

16. Solarcity Projecthttp://codeforamerica.org/?cfa_project=solar-city# • Calculate solar potential for rooftops

17. DiscoverBPS discoverbps.org.

18. Choose your own adventure • Any of your own ideas. We are here to help!

19. Conclusion • Thank you for your time! • We’re here for you! • Questions? • Project Ideas? 21

20. Smart Planet • http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ • http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/overview/ideas/index.html?ca=v_now&re=ussph2.2 • http://www.ted.com/ • People for a Smarter Planet Community http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=People+for+a+Smarter+Planet&init=quick&tas=search_preload#!/peopleforasmarterplanet • 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-code-government/index.html