I've noticed something while reading my daily blogs, a lot of code is just unreadable because most blog systems (blogger looking at you), screw up indentation, unless you wrap it in a pre tag (opening and closing are both required. This makes it readable for your readers! I've left comments on the blogs that didn't know this, and now they do.

This message is primarily for the Google Summer of Code students, but is useful to the programming community as a whole. When you post code, wrap it in a pre tag and be sure to close them when your code example is complete.

Thanks to the generous folks at Review Board, OpenMRS has the opportunity to try out Review Board for performing code reviews for our GSoC projects. Students can download post -review (a python script) and submit changes for review simply by issuing the command “post-review” within the root of their local copy. Mentors can review the [...]

I was accepted to participate in Google Summer of Code. I will be blogging regularly about my progress. The project I will be working is a Groovy Forms Module, which will enable administrators of OpenMRS to quickly create forms along with HTML and controllers. I think it will be a fun experience.

Yesterday I was notified that my project application got accepted into Google Summer of  Code. I can't wait to begin! I'll be working for OpenMRS, a web based medical record system primarily focused on developing countries. During the summer I will make a medical image viewer with several features for studying and annotating images, typically X-ray photos.

My original application proposed to implement the image viewer as a Java applet. The plans have since been revised, and the plan now calls for an AJAX web app instead. I will be using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and  the Google Maps API during development, something I'm really looking forward to.

The change from Java applet to AJAX will lead to much better performance in low-bandwith scenarios. It will also move much of the image processing workload from the client side to the server, enabling better performance on low-end hardware but probably stressing the server somewhat more.

I will keep this blog updated with my progress during the summer, posting at least once a week.