Tuesday, September 27, 2011

uDig Source Code Visualisation

Continuing on to uDig for a great gource visualisation showing the impact of a couple of code sprints in 2010; and a new development team starting up in 2011.

Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqxXJ7bOBTg and the video itself is shown below.

Aside: This is a much better visualisation as I have been learning to gource control options (so the video tracks activity for a better view of what is going on).

By popular request (on IRC) here are the command line options used for code.google.com/p/gource project.

I started by using "camera-mode" track to make the action focused; I also really lowered the number of seconds used to represent each day so that we could quickly cover two years of development.

gource -title uDig -1280x720 --camera-mode track --auto-skip-seconds 1 --seconds-per-day 0.05 -o udig.ppm 

And then I stitched the result into a movie using ffmpeg:

 ffmpeg -y -b 10000K -r 60 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm -i udig.ppm -vcodec libx264 -vpre slow -threads 0 -bf 0 udig.x264.mp4

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

THIS WEEK IN UDIG - SEP - WEEK 3


  • Jody has done a geat difusion task in FOSS4G2011 Denver. He leaded the uDig code sprint. It looks like the people have had a good time as is shown in the event's snapshots
  • Emily Gouge has been working to fix up some bugs in the uDig paltform. 

Sunday, September 11, 2011

THIS WEEK IN UDIG - SEP - WEEK 2

The community is working to improve the user experience in uDig.

- Levi Putna and Jody Garnett are presented the Map Status Bar Tool Options idea, that will allow a better access to the different tool options.

- uDig will have a new useful tools Smart Buffer, it have been proposed by Levi Putna.

- Jesse and Andrea have provided feedback and good advices to carry out those ideas.

- Jody was cleaning the java 5 compliance from uDig platform code to allow to
use the override annotation with the java 6 semantic (to override interface
signatures).

- Mauricio is advancing in the udig Weather vision. He was analyzing the GUI requirements for the weather desktop.

Monday, September 5, 2011

THIS WEEK IN UDIG - SEP - WEEK 1

- The University of Trento has ufficialized the next
courses about hydrology, geomorphology, water supply systems and stormwaters, based on uDig and engineering tools developed by HydroloGIS. More info.

- Jesse and Andrea have done the code review of GEF Palette.

- Jody and Scott have improved and updated the "Getting Started". The following pages were updated:

SDK Quickstart
Plugin Tutorial
Custom Application Tutorial
Workbench Tutorial

- John Hudson have update the worktrough 1. The new tool palette is shown in the screenshots.

- Mauricio have tested the udig internal snapshot with the community update site (1.2).