DQ Office Development Checklist

• DQO Framework Restructure: Rough Ideas
  • Replace hash files with XML/JSON/YAML
    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/80693/what-type-of-application-utilization-is-yaml-best-suited-for
    • http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/are-you-an-xml-bozo.html
    • http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/05/xml-the-angle-bracket-tax.html
    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12144/application-configuration-files
    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/325085/when-to-prefer-json-over-xml
  • Convert the configuration to another data format OR recreate all the configuration files in a new structure?
    • Perl class to take in the values and keys of conf hash files
    • http://www.perltutorial.org/perl-hash.aspx
    • http://www.tizag.com/perlT/perlhashes.php
    • http://www.tizag.com/perlT/perlvariables.php
  • Replace Perl with Java
• IDL
  • Make a program that takes in one netcdf and extracts all fields, etc. into a struct or netcdf_data
  • Write in python the IDL classes in python
• Web Development
  • Research: CMS or Web Framework
    • http://www.steptwo.com.au/papers/kmc_what/index.html
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Content_Management_System
    • http://docforge.com/wiki/Content_management_system
    • http://www.joviawebstudio.com/jovia/blog/is_a_content_management_system_right_for_you/
    • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/905232/framework-or-cms
    • Research: Plone
      • http://plone.net/
      • http://plone.org/
      • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348044/what-could-justify-the-complexity-of-plone
      • http://thingsilearned.com/2007/08/14/zope3plone-to-django/
      • http://seeknuance.com/2008/09/06/moving-from-django-to-plone/
      • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/323313/django-versus-plone
    • Research: Django powered CMS
      • http://www.django-cms.org/
      • http://pydanny.blogspot.com/2009/11/picking-django-powered-cms.html
      • http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CMSAppsComparison
      • feincms
    • Research: Web2Py
      • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/76809/anyone-out-there-using-web2py
    • Research: Other technologies not using python
    • Research: RoR (Ruby on Rails)
      • HAML
    • JSON
    • Reading: The Definitive Guide to Django (ON HOLD)
• Miscellaneous
  • Learn Regular Expression
  • Create a tutorial page for using my IDL Modules
  • SWAWT
  • NetCDF 4
  • NetCDF organization files using bits