Arianne Project Meeting 2010/Talks: Difference between revisions

We will add here the slides from each talk and a link to a video, when these have been prepared for display on the net. Please check back if you are interested!

===History of Arianne from 1999 to present day===

; Speaker : Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin (Spain)

; Language : English

; Target group : All

; Abstract : I will try to summarize ten years of history in around 45 minutes. Explaining our projects, what they were and why we did them.

===The Amazing Stendhal Dictionary: Her Biggest Challenge Yet ===

; Speaker : Katie Russell

; Abstract : Can anyone name all Stendhal NPCs and describe something interesting about what each does? Without preparation? (honestly... the speaker has no time to prepare...) If anyone can, the Amazing Stendhal Dictionary can! Marvel as she attempts to draw a map of the island and its dungeons, and take each region in turn, describing some history, each NPC's features, and some funny* anecdotes.

<nowiki>*</nowiki><small>No warranties. She ''thinks'' they are funny....</small>

=== Using GIMP to create Stendhal graphics===

; Speaker: Kiheru

; Abstract :

; Review : Markus gave a talk on JUnit testing, and managed to make it sound not only vital to the code quality and stability of the project, but even fun too. He demonstrated how continuous integration (our hudson bot) and JUnit testing can work together to notify developers early of any problems. At the end of the talk at least one developer was heard to mutter ''Hm, I should add a test for that method I wrote last week.''

=== How to develop quests in Stendhal ===

; Speaker : Yuriy Krawtsow

; Language : English

; Target group : Contributors, Developers

; Abstract : This talk will explain how to develop quests in Stendhal. It uses the recently added Pied Piper quest as example.

=== Marauroa's Future ===

; Speaker : Hendrik Brummermann (Germany), Markus Keunecke (Germany)

; Language : English

; Target group : Developers

; Abstract : There is a number of very interesting and complicated things on the feature wish list for Marauroa. As you are probably aware of, KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) is one of the main principal of Marauroa. This of course does not mean that we cannot do complicated things. But it means that complicated things have to be well thought of and be broken into small parts. In this talk we will present ideas on how to archive the following "feature" and ask for you feedback and suggestion on the issues:

:* No more lag caused by MySQL: A totally asynchronous approach to database access

:* How to tunnel the Marauroa protocol over https and why it is more difficult than it seems to be on first glance (e. g. multiplexing with normal web traffic, not wanting to have 127.0.0.1 as client address in the logs)

:* How to map a dynamic object model into a database table structure instead of a blob, so that we can use SQL for queries and updates (Yes, we know that Marauroa 1.0 failed and we will present a meta model approach that avoids those pitfalls)

:* Integration of production and test system

:* Steps toward cluster-support

; Review : Hendrik and Markus together gave a talk on Marauroa's future. This covered both plans achievable in the short term and some more ambitious ideas. It was a talk aimed at developers and there were often questions and comments from the audience, which was really nice. Some of the topics, like asychronous database access and https multiplexing, seemed like they are both very useful and achieveable in the short term. Other plans like the meta model for storing objects and their attributes, values, and relationships, in the database, are really good plans

and will need quite a lot of work to be introduced.

===More Ideas for another time===