Week 3 - Monday - 7/07

hours:8
week: 8/48

Overview:

- emailed Stefan to see who is working on the project he said that he didn't think that Nick Stephens would be working on it much. I though Nick was working on it this summer.

- updated journal

- working on unboot script

- learning AWS Ruby SDK in more depth.

- learned to mark volumes as delete on termination for their corresponging instances

- trying to sort out all the dependencies for resource deletion (proving to be rather difficult)

- learning what I can from Davids cleanup-script (which is rather crude but works)

- implenting per scenario AWS resource deletion (not finished, hopefully will be by tomorrow)

Hours Worked

12 weeks goal: 360

Week 1: 20 / 30

behind: 10

Week 2: 4 / 30

behind: 36

Was camping at a family reunion this week and didn't get much work done. Will have to do extra hours the following weeks.

Week 3:

Goal is to catch up on the 36 hours i am behind in this week and week 4 which would mean working 48 hours each week. I will do this by doing six 8 hour days each week.

NOTICE

I was 10 hours short of the 30 I am trying to do each week. I will make up the time in future weeks. The contract for SURF states "It is reasonable for faculty to expect a minimum commitment of 240 hours for the 12 week program" which comes out to 20 hours a week but I am still aiming for 30 hours a week.

Also I am currently sick and I didn't work at all on Tuesday and Wedensday of this week. Also I will be attending a family reunion for the rest of the week in a remote area. I will try to do as much work as I can but if I fall short on hours I will make them up.

Week 01 - Sunday - 6/29

hours:5
week: 20/ 30

Overview:

- Fixing cleanup script to delete resources per scenario

- Learning basics of Ruby on Rails

- Learning about HAML markup

- Learned how to add items to the UI

- Problems writing a bash block in Chef script. Ruby blocks work though

- Trouble booting two scenarios at once

- Scenarios partly boot on errors they should probably delete themselves if an error occurs.

- Learned how to add controllers in Ruby on Rails

Week 01 - Saturday - 6/28

hours:2
week: 15 / 30

Overview:

- Understanding database schema

- Dealing with problems logging into player instances

- Need to look at each Yaml more closely to understand why some scenarios have users on the NAT and others have users on the instance.

Week 01 - Friday - 6/27

hours:3
week: 13 / 30

Overview:

- Troubleshooting strace scenario yaml and cookbook.

- Learning how yaml sets up users

- Trying to understand how scoring works

- Reading the cleanup script

- Unexpected errors on boot (error when local database is not purged)

- How to ssh into each machine in scenario

Week 01 - Thursday - 6/26

hours: 4
week: 10 / 30

Overview:

- Setup this blog.

- Accomplished setting up laptop as instructor machine.

- Successfully launched a scenario.

- Started wriritng yaml and cookbook for the Strace scenario