Software Engineering Class Projects

I’m still debating the best project for this semester’s class project. We’re probably going to have 10-12 people per team, with two competing teams. Some of my current thoughts: Cross-Platform Synchronizing Chore management system Software Tool/Environment for teaching children to program The chore management system is needed around our house, and we have a group …

Avoiding Cisco AnyConnect on the Mac

I haven’t had much luck with Cisco VPN software on the Mac in the past.  Unfortunately, the Cisco AnyConnect software that we use at Towson doesn’t accept connections from the built-in Apple VPN client. Luckily (and predictably), the open-source community has a solution to this problem.  OpenConnect is an open source replacement for AnyConnect.  It …

BasicTeX 2012

I just upgraded to BasicTeX 2012, and here’s a quick synopsis of the steps: tlmgr uninstall download and install the current BasicTeX package from tug.org update PATH environment variable to include the current install location: /usr/local/texlive/2012basic/bin/universal-darwin tlmgr update –self tlmgr update –all tlmgr install collection-fontsrecommended tlmgr install subfigure tlmgr install exam The Exam package is …