Monthly Archive for July, 2006

Our SLOC readings are high…

What is SLOC? It means Source Lines of Code–and we’ve generated a lot of them. So we ran this  program called sloccount on our bulky our entirely fresh, brand-spanking new code base as of last fall.  It came up with some interesting numbers:
Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 33,716 –Ed.: 10,000 of this is Python 2.3 source code (and not ours)
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 8.04 (96.48)
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 1.18 (14.19)
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 6.80
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 1,086,099 (average salary = $56,286/year).

I can only conclude that I have been vastly underpaid over the last year.

Here’s how it broke down in terms of languages:

cpp:          16838 (49.94%)
python:       10995 (32.61%)
ansic:         5421 (16.08%)
sh:             462 (1.37%)

So overall we’ve done quite a lot of work.  Roll, nBites!

*generated using David A. Wheeler’s ‘SLOCCount’.*

New server coming soon; Website updates

So in the long list of cleaning house on the team–the code base, the robots, the lab, the ferd–I’ve finally come to the website.  Here’s our grand idea: we’ll take an old linux box from downstairs and make it into our own personal webserver.  Jeremy is in the process of wiping it, installing debian, mysql, php, etc, and then I will install wordpress and port over this website.

Our own webserver will provide a bunch of substantial functionality boosters–we’ll have our own dns (probably robocup.bowdoin.edu), a much faster loading website, and much more control over it as well. We’ll be able to do things like access our code base via httpd and even stream video–and we’ve accumuluated a lot–to our adoring fans.

In the meantime, I’ve created a Media page that’s currently in progress which will hold some of our things to come.

WordPress upgrade

Blogging Platform updated to 2.0.3 (2.0.4 and 2.1 coming soon).