Here are some exercise to help one get use to programming on the ischool clusters.

Installing software

SSH clients

You might want to set up SSH / SCP clients for your local machines to enable command line access to ischool.berkeley.edu (or harbinger or people.ischool.berkeley.edu) and also GUI-based file transfers:

Windows: WinSCP
Mac: ssh built-in  Fugu or Fetch for graphical file transfer.

Text editors

You might want to have a local editor to help you edit files instead of using the Unix based editors. There are many. On OS X, campus has a license for TextMate. I also enjoy the free Komodo Edit, which runs on multiple platforms.

Making Sure PHP is working for you on people.ischool.berkeley.edu

Get warmed up on ischool.berkeley.edu

• login with your ischool account — you all have a ~/public_html directory — e.g., /home/rdhyee/public_html

• add test.php to your directory ~/public_html :

  <?php
  echo "hello -- how are you? This year is 2010";
  ?>
  

• See
  http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~rdhyee/test.php

Downloading code for Pro Web 2.0 Mashups from Apress.

1. Make a directory in ~/public_html by typing

   mkdir ~/public_html/Book
   cd ~/public_html/Book

2. now get the source code:

curl -o Source.zip http://www.apress.com/resource/bookfile/3901
unzip Source.zip

3. get the permissions right:

   chmod -R o+rX Ch* R*

4. get flickrsearch.php working in Chapter 6 http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~rdhyee/Book/Chapter06/flickrsearch.php:

   cd Chapter06
setfacl -m u:apache:r--,o:---,m:rwx flickrsearch.php

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