libgda work

Work continues on libgda. Things are off to a slower than expected start but they are moving forward. I’ve got a basic stylesheet done for transforming the report XML. Next steps are:

Set the XSL-FO (Formatting Objects) that will define how the report
will look when presented to the reader.
Build the DB queries and [...]

Sussen Use Cases

Read some stuff from Robert Love about user centric design and use cases in OSS development. In a nut shell instead of having a functional specification, lists of needed components, a description of features at a low-level, and so on, all you have is a set of very high-level use cases, in plain English, [...]

XSLT

Working on some XSLT code for the GDA Report Engine. I’m trying to get the report XML to transform into XHTML. Should have some code to show soon.

Bugfixes

Checked in some bugfixes for sussen & sussen-sensor today. Fixed some crashes and updated the service fingerprint code. The work continues…

OVAL

Saw some discussion on slashdot.org about the Open Source Vulnerability Database. One of the comments made a reference to Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL).
I’ll have to investigate that more at some point. It looks interesting.

Open Source Vulnerability Database

Heard about the Open Source Vulnerability Database today. That might come in handy for plugin development. Have to investigate it more.

GNOME-DB / Network Problems

Been going over the libgda code for the reporting engine. Just trying to wrap my head around the whole thing. Still feeling my way around.
Had some network issues today, that just sucks, but whatever, things seem to be back to normal again.
More to come…