Community Middleware for Pervasive Computing
This video shows the activity in the constuct development repository from July 2005 to Jan 2009, frames were generated using the codeswarm system, and the video was rendered using the Virtual Dub application.
There’s been a lot of development on Construct over the last few months which will result in a couple of releases before the end of the year. The most recent update, (v0.8a) saw a restructuring of the data store around named graphs, and major improvements to performance (both in speed and memory consumption) throughout the framework. We are aiming for a final release of version 0.8 in late October, with remaining work focused on improving the installation procedure. Once complete, the next release (v0.9) will see the codebase becoming fully OSGi compliant in addition to improving support for cross-subnet communication.
Spurred by my belief in the Construct Infrastructure I took my official t-shirt with me in my backpack. In my role as Construct evangalist I’ll document the far reaching effects we’re having through a few photos. First is Rio de Janero in Brazil:
Provided my bag doesn’t get stolen there will be more to follow.
Part 2
And here it is. On Monday (8/9) I deployed Construct 0.8a to Machu Picchu in Peru. The Inkas love it. When I left the Inka chief was in deep discussion about named graph support and php-based web mashups over a hot cup of coca tea:
Steve, an original member of the Construct Dev team, left the Systems Research Group last week. He’s off to get hitched and travel the world - so we won’t hold it against him!
As part of his leaving presents we made up this rather fetching (even if we do say so ourselves) T-Shirt, so that he can spread the word of Construct to the world.
Good luck Steve - Bon Voyage!
The 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Systems Evalution (USE ‘08) will take place in Seoul, South Korea on 21st September, 2008. The workshop is being organised by Construct developers Graeme Stevenson and Steve Neely of University College Dublin, and by Christian Kray of Newcastle University.
Following on from last year’s workshop in Innsbruck, USE ‘08 aims to bring together practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to discuss best practice and challenges in the evaluation of ubiquitous systems. Recognised evaluation strategies are essential in order that the contribution of new techniques can be quantified objectively. Experience has shown that evaluating ubiquitous systems is extremely difficult; approaches tend to be subjective, piecemeal or both. Individual approaches to evaluation risk being incomplete and comparisons between systems can be difficult.
The submission deadline for USE ‘08 is July 07, 2008. Please visit http://www.useworkshop.org for further details.
With the new release of Construct we’ve updated the site and moved to a wordpress blog. In the last few months the team have been really busy developing new applications, sensors and components for Construct. We’re ready to tell you all about them in the blog and will post new cool features as we add them.
Check back for updates or grab the RSS feed to stay on top of the technologies.
![[del.icio.us]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
![[Digg]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/digg.png)
![[Google]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/google.png)
![[StumbleUpon]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/stumbleupon.png)
![[Windows Live]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/windowslive.png)
![[Yahoo!]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/yahoo.png)
![[Email]](http://www.construct-infrastructure.org/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)