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At the IMeCA Meeting in Lima, Peru listening to Hamish present about OpenMRS in English with real-time Spanish translation … and Hamish is in Kigali, Rwanda!  Now that is cool!

During some noodling about OpenMRS design issues with Paul, we wanted to look at the most recent version of some of our tables.  Did I open up MySQL?  No sirree!  I have 1.6 dev running on an appliance, so I just opened the Groovy module and ran this script:

/* Let’s make a convenient function for [...]

I took some time this afternoon to brainstorm about active lists w/ Paul…in preparation for an OIP project this summer with Upul.
Fundamentally, we need to add support for allergy lists and problem lists within core OpenMRS.  In the end, we’ll have allergy and problem methods within the Patient Service; however, the pattern of list management [...]

This was a great hack-a-thon.  We tackled a lot of different issues for the logic service.  Unfortunately, a number of these will require additional effort to be completed.
We knocked out some of the simpler tickets:

Rules tokens need to be case insensitive (#1104)
Encounter datasource expansion (#1105)
Creating an Operand interface (#1106)

We made some decisions (like not moving [...]

So far, so good at the OpenMRS! To our surprise, we’re actually getting code written. We’re not sure if it’s because of Tammy’s amazing prep work or because Paul & Hamish couldn’t make it.
Looking forward to tomorrow…

As with many of our hackathons, we learned a lot about where we stand… in this case, on unit testing. We worked through a lot of the conventions and methodology to create a pathway to improve our unit testing coverage. We’re embracing at least the method-naming aspects of BDD. I am confident [...]

We just migrated to a new server (thanks atomicturtle, bwolfe!).  Writing a quick blog to test the feed aggregator.  Hopefully the website will be a bit faster on the new server.

Thanks to the generous folks at Review Board, OpenMRS has the opportunity to try out Review Board for performing code reviews for our GSoC projects.
Students can download post -review (a python script) and submit changes for review simply by issuing the command “post-review” within the root of their local copy.
Mentors can review the [...]

Thanks to the strong work of the folks at Mibbit.com, you can now join the #openmrs IRC channel directly from the OpenMRS.org website!  Just visit irc.openmrs.org to try it out.

No, I’m not smoking anything and I’m not trying to do a Greg Brady impersonation. By “groovy” module…I mean a Groovy module.
Groovy has the potential to bring the fun and rapid prototyping benefits of languages like Ruby to the Java scene. But a big advantage of Groovy is that it’s built [...]