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I'm happy to announce that tonight we have released Telescope version 1.4.0.  This was a big release, and included contributions from 36 new contributors to the project.  A huge thank-you to everyone who was involved in this release!Here are some highlights of what we shipped:Many large…

This week I began teaching another round of our introductory Open Source courses, DPS909 and OSD600.  Despite our new online reality, I've got the largest group I've ever had, which is a bit intimidating (especially since this isn't my only course).Teaching online has lots of challenges, but in the…

I was chatting with a student today who couldn't figure out why his scripts wouldn't run.  He was doing everything correctly, but still the commands failed with a bizarre error.  I asked to see the output.  Here's an approximation:PS C:\Users\student\OneDrive\Computer Programming\Assignments & Tests\assignment4&…

I've always wanted an excuse to try working with Twilio for programmatic messaging and SMS.  This week I got my chance, and wanted to share some of what I learned.One of the many side projects I maintain is an IoT system I've been cobbling together for my family and…

In December I wrote about an experiment I'd started to build a blog aggregation project with my open source students:In the winter term I'm going to continue working on [Telescope] in the second course, and take [the students] through the process of shipping it into production.  Moving from fixing…

Last week was a shortened week, with the Easter Friday holiday, but I wanted to write about some of what I saw and experienced "online" during week 3 of covid19-teaching.This was the final week of classes, and we only have one more week of "final assessments," which look different…

We're getting close to our goal of shipping Telescope 1.0.  As you get close to a big release, a few things happen.  First, a lot of things suddenly get finished and merges increase (you know the saying, "the last 10% is 90% of the work").  Second, the need for…

This week in Telescope development we hit a major milestone.  For the first time we were able to authenticate users in our app using Seneca's Single Sign-On (SSO) SAML authentication provider.  We even got Single Logout to work (don't ask me why that's even harder than login).One of our…