Project members & History

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[Back to the roots!] [Project members] [History]

Team members of the Webtree-project:

	Philipp Reisner: Linux-maniac and Bob Marley incarnation... HTTP protocol design e9525534@student.tuwien.ac.at
	Gerald Fischer: pref.h e9626077@student.tuwien.ac.at
	Werner Schuster: Helpsupport for Linux and NeXT-Version (html-format and Nextish help), Infopanels, Readme´s, and other dummie-stuff (like the document, you are reading now). "Before the project, I was no LINUX-User but this project focused my interests on some exciting, useful things of this operation-system. Right now, I try hard to get my configuration running... ;-)" e9525072@student.tuwien.ac.at
	Philipp Richter: Subclass of VIEW and subclass of Widget e9426459@student.tuwien.ac.at
	Alexander Mueller-Koegler: HTML parsing e9426332@student.tuwien.ac.at

History of WebTree

We are all students at Vienna's University of Technology. We all did the software engineering class at the same time, and we formed a team for the last ( and biggest ) exercise of the class.

The Idea!

These days everyone has been dreaming of some great application his team would make, everyone chatted about distributed games and other useless stuff. And one late afternoon Bernhard, Alexander, Gerald and I (Philpp Reisner) met by accident in the Computer Science Lab, and we began discussing about what would be a great project. We discussed various useless stuff like a distributed text editor, distributed implementation of code wars (code wars is an environment, in which user-written programs are fighting against each other). Because we thought that there is no comparable piece of software we finally decided for a thing we called webtree.

The Start

It was a bit hard to get things going. Everyone was waiting for the others to start, but nobody made the first step. So we began to hold regular meetings, where we discussed how to implement our webtree. By forcing everyone to write a specification for his part until a deadline things became moving.

The Stage of Implementation

Suddenly there was something to see on the screen, and from that moment on everything was developing faster! We learned to use the cvs (Concurrent Versions System) tool and we used the ElectricFence ( a package to find nifty bugs with mallocs & frees ) package.

Time passed quickly, but we finally managed to produce a piece of software, which you can show, and we think it is a bit more usefull than the other team's products. ;-)

Philipp Reisner.

WebTree Help, Werner Schuster - 1997