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Below are some highlights of what I learned this semester.

• Through Projects
  • Autoguilt
    • More about how to use Drupal as a development platform
  • Benchvm
    • A lot about how procrastination prevents any work from getting done
  • Management
    • How to control Xen programatically
    • About how to use ssh keys, bash scripts, and php to automate tasks
  • SVN
    • How to set up a subversion server
    • A lot more about the inner workings of subversion
• Through Presentations
  • Xen Workshops
    • The different Xen networking configurations and how to use them
    • How to run PV Xen in a Xen HVM guest
  • Web Development Presentations
    • Various things about how teaching web development is different than teaching web design
  • Server Hardware Presentation
    • About various technologies that we’re considering using for production with the new hardware

For more information on what I’ve learned, check out my changes on the wiki.

I gave three presentations, two workshops on Xen, and several lightning talks this semester. Information about each can be found on the presentations page of the wiki.

IBM has a neat contest going on; there are five categories:Video, Gadget, Query, Porting and XML. It looks fairly straight forward. If anyone is interested in working together on either of the last two (the only team options), let me know!

See http://antoniocangiano.com/2008/12/01/ibms-xml-challenge-lots-of-prizes-inside/ for more information.