Stephen Fry

"Education is the sum of what students teach each other in between lectures and seminars. " - Stephen Fry

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Lots of things to be getting on with ...

Friends often wonder what I'm working (and so do I sometimes) so here's my to-do list for the rest of this week:

DOCUMENTING OCAML 
  • Review some examples of ocaml code and hows its documented
  • Investigate if ocamldoc is worth implementing
  • using ocaml-dns as an example of documentation
  • put together a blog post of methods of documenting OCaml code and decide a style of documentation that you be useful in Signposts
  • Next week, work through the core signposts core, adding documentation
SIGNPOSTS INSTALLATION

  • working through the process of installing signposts from a scratch, currently do as far as key generation
  • Generate the keys required for signpost and potential write a script to help automate the process
  • Run Signposts on my main machine, test client and server implementation
  • Next week, follow documentation to set up signposts on an Eee PC  
  • Produce a clear set on instruction on how to install, set up and run signposts
UPnP TACTIC FOR SIGNPOSTS
  • Research the UPnP interface provided by routers
  • Review the other signposts tactics to generate an outline of the API for implementing tactics
  • Next week, Write a tactic in OCaml for signposts that makes use of UPnP, use the method of documenting OCaml highlights earlier
FRAMEWORK FOR ANALYSIS OF URBAN WI-FI
  • finish reading and taking notes on "Usage Patterns in an Urban Wi-Fi network"
  • Produce a draft outline of the framework for analyzing urban Wi-Fi
  • Next week, reading though some other papers in the area and add detail to framework
PAWS ROUTER TRIAL SETUP
  • once permission for the network is granted, set up the router using the provided interface 
  • install and set-up OpenWRT on the router
  • Investigate best firmware for ftp, ssh and vpn on the router
  • produce results and share, before 15th Nov
INTERLEAVING OF SIGNPOSTS & PAWS
  • consider the overlap of signposts & paws
  • find use cases that highlight the potential for inter connection
  • produce some slides/blog post on findings and ideas, before 15th Nov

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