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Revision as of 11:26, 15 August 2007

You can find this page and links to more details about all the core concepts at http://www.AboutUs.org/New_Developer_Orientation


AboutUs Overview

Who we are


How we work

MediaWiki|Compost : 20mins : Brandon

Our current application is a hybrid combination of MediaWiki written in PHP and Compost written in Ruby.


Hardware Configuration

Topsoil : 10mins : Brandon

Topsoil, our next generation collaboration platform, is our future. Topsoil is a distributed application that runs on top of the Bedrock Network of servers and web clients.

  • User interacts with standard web client that may or may not have the GreenThumb(browser plugin) installed.
  • Web client interacts with a Bedrock server that may be hosted by us or running on their local machine as a proxy daemon.
  • Bedrock servers use the Seismic protocol to communicate user actions between Bedrock servers.

Philosophy (ExtremeProgramming) : 10mins : Arif

  1. TestDrivenDevelopment
  2. PairProgramming
  3. DistributedPlanningGame
  4. MorningStandUpMeeting

Programming : 5mins : Athar

  1. Ruby
  2. Unit Testing in Ruby
  3. Regular Expressions
  4. PHP
  5. MediaWiki

Environment : 5mins : Athar



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