It was Lemonade day at one of the elementary schools of Rochester. The students had set up small booths and were selling lemonade. Team Lemonade Stand took this day as a opportunity to get a preliminary play test for the game Lemonade Stand. We sent up our stand with XO laptops and got a few kids to come play the game. After watching, we came up with a list of changes we would need to make to the game which was similar to the ideas we already had.

I got my machine fixed for now. There is something loose within in that causes the screen not to work from time to time. Then team Lemonade Stand spent the day learning vim and trying to name the unknowns that we need to tackle in order to get the Open Badges to work using the XS school servers.

This previous Thursday, the Lemonade Stand team had quite a hard time at work. It was our job that day to research sugar XO laptops communicated with a school server, with regards to the Journal. The Journal is an activity that records a list of activities that have been accessed throughout time. Sort of like the history on a web browser. Students have an option of adding tags to these entries to show what they learned while using that particular activity.

Calendars, Collaboration, and Cranking

We got our group calendar together today, and very very soon we'll have to actually space out our milestones and plan out what's going to have to be due when. We had a sweet vim seminar, and I got to learn about the difficult art of vimgolf. If you don't know about vim, and like to code on the command line, you should. Best text editor I've seen. Vim has earned my trophy for the category, dethroning the reigning champion Microsoft word.

Threebean and Fornight in the caves of Sugar

Last tuesday, the main achievement of the day was getting a GitHUB tutorial from one of our mentors. It was an extremely cool seminar where I believe everyone learn alot more than they thought was possible. Also, merging a text file from at least 7 people who were asked to change one line is a rather tedious task. I had the unfortunate pleasure of merging the same file at least 5 times....We were also linked to a Git Resource Sheet. This will be mighty handy!
ON TO RESEARCHING THE INTERWEBS!

There isn't much to talk about today. Most of the day was spent scouring the internet for as much information the Journal on the XOs and the XS, the Sugar School Servers. Towards the end of the day my machine then died. Going to see if it can be fixed tomorrow or if I have to get a new one.

Today was a long and extensive day of digging through the interent and all sugar directories on our system's to find any information about the XO and how it communicates with the XS, which is the School Server for XO laptops. We were able to find a link that talks about datastore and how to create new data objects. I found one link that talks about how to read and write to and from the journal.

Today was an exciting learning day, not saying that every day is not! Today we had a great Git/Vim tutorial presented to us by our own Nate! This was an awesome introduction/clarification session. I knew the very very basics to sucessfully hack remotely for the hackathon that was last weekend, but during this session I learned how to deal with merge errors! yay! With this, I installed meld which is a great interactive tool that helps resolve ugly merge conflicts.

The count got a little mixed up over the weekend. The weekend was spent at a National Day of Civic Hacking working on a small side project of mine called Sky Time, and educational game about telling time for the XO laptops. Then Monday I tried to get Sky Time packaged for the XO. Then today, the Tuesday I'm just going to call Day 6 and just continue my count from there, in the down time of work I finally figured out how to debug an Activity when I found out there was a Log Activity that could track what there errors were. Sky Time is now stable enough for its first release.