Sound Alliance Developers » Cool Stuff http://developer.thesoundalliance.net New from the TSA Engine Room Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:37:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 30,000 commits and rising http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/09/25/30000-commits-and-rising/ http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/09/25/30000-commits-and-rising/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:59:58 +0000 Sasha http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/?p=116 The Sound Alliance version control repository hit the 30,000 mark today. To celebrate, here’s a quick POSIX one liner to get the counts by user for your local repo:

SVNBASE=`svn info http://YOUR_SVN_REPO|grep '^Repository Root'|awk '{print $3}'`;svn log "$SVNBASE"|grep '^r[0-9]'|cut -d'|' -f2|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr

]]> http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/09/25/30000-commits-and-rising/feed/ 0 Visualizing the Repository http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/09/09/visualizing-the-repository/ http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/09/09/visualizing-the-repository/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:57:35 +0000 Gerald Kaszuba http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/?p=12 I’m a fan of visualization. In the past I’ve released a few visualization tools such as Python Call Graph and Wireless Heatmap. One Friday afternoon I decided to run code_swarm on our Subversion repository which has all the code for inthemix, Faster Louder, and all our other websites. code_swarm visualizes a Subversion repository over time. The repository is up to about 30,000 revisions, which began on Tuesday, 27th of July 2004.

Below is the video showing one dot per file with the user name of the user committing the file in the middle of the swarm of dots. The blue dots are PHP files, yellow dots are HTML files and green dots being Smarty template files. Other types of files are just white dots. The large swarm of files are usually when we do branch merging.

Click here to view the embedded video.

 ]]> http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/09/09/visualizing-the-repository/feed/ 1 The Great Wall of V http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/08/28/the-great-wall-of-v/ http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/08/28/the-great-wall-of-v/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:13:26 +0000 Ian http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/?p=67 You may have guessed it already, but we’ve got a good thing going on with the energy drink “V”, they sponsor our blog and supply us with fuel to crank out the development. The by-product of this relationship is that we get to do creative (read as “silly”) things will all the empty cans.

One such creative outlet is the “Great Wall of V” (GWOV) which is a free standing wall of empty V cans situated a top of the partition wall between myself and Sasha. (I’m not gonna read into the reason why Sasha wanted to built a wall between us, I shower every morning!). We’re slowing adding more cans, and ergo more height to the GWOV, and it now stands at level 5. Since we’re getting closer and closer to the day of Jericho, we’re recording each addition we pick up the video footage as Sasha is adding the second last can to level 5.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Next I finish level 5 in preparation for the big boss level 6.

Click here to view the embedded video.

- Ian

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For each of our media properties, we keep regular tabs on important KPI’s like new members, subscribers, forum posts and the like. Each month, each business creates a monthly report from these KPI’s using data from the websites and some custom Excel programming that we’ve done. It’s a little cumbersome and prone to errors and mistakes.

The proper way to do it would be to use some reporting suite like JasperReports to create a reporting portal for each business – but time just has not allowed to look into this.

But there might be another way. With the move to SaaS providers in many areas of business, I guess it was only a matter of time for this to move into the Business Intelligence space. I’ve recently come across the GoodData system, which looks quite interesting. It’s effectively a fully outsourced BI reporting platform, running on Amazon EC2. I’m yet to fully put it through it’s paces, but initially, the ability to create reports, present dashboards, control user access through privileges & upload data either through a web interface or via APIs all looks very promising – especially for the current price.. Free!

I hope to get some time to give it a proper trial soon, but this space is definitely hotting up – as I noticed Rightscale have teamed with Jaspersoft to offer BI inthe Cloud also.

Good Data brings easy, flexible, affordable analytics within re

]]> http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/08/21/bi-in-the-cloud/feed/ 0 Welcome to the Sound Alliance Developers Blog http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/08/14/welcome-to-the-sound-alliance-developers-blog/ http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/2009/08/14/welcome-to-the-sound-alliance-developers-blog/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:51:20 +0000 andre http://developer.thesoundalliance.net/?p=7 Hey there,

Thanks for stopping by our blog. As the development team for the Sound Alliance, we’re responsible for running the development program on our web portals inthemix.com.au, FasterLouder.com.au & SameSame.com.au, as well as our ticketing business Qjump.com.au and any other work that comes our way.

Our sites are classic LAMP sites, MVC OO PHP5 with a smattering of legacy procedural stuff in there (we have been up & running for close to 10 years).

We’ll be posting articles here giving an insight into how we work, solutions we’ve come up with or things that have inspired the team. You might also see some sillyness from time to time.. So, we hope you’ll come back and say hi from time to time.

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