Lessons learned from 5 9 training

#Lessons learned from 5-9-2012 training

Virtual Machine

• Network card selection (if you're connecting wifi, make sure you bridge on Airport, etc)
• Setting up hosts file on Mac (use vi?)
• Why did IP addresses get reassigned so frequently (lots of dropped connections)?
• IP address in tutorial is not the IP address the user will want to use, this should be noted to the user somewhere…
• What was the cause of "madrona roulette" where madrona would resolve to someone elses IP address? Some sort of broadcast?
• Need to set up guest additions to resize screen and get copy-n-paste working (apt-get build-essential linux-headers-uname -r; sudo VBox...run )

App Generator

• "unknown status"
• Folder named folder
• Can't hit initialize twice
• General unreliability

Tutorial

• More explicit instruction re Editing /etc/hosts on Mac
• Point to external "prereq" docs like Django tutorial

Madrona itself

• Explain assumptions (e.g. why a geometry_orig and geometry_final)

General

• Apparently Matt noted that something (probably models.py) was, in fact, the "Crux of the Biscuit"
• One call for "more geodjango"