Welcome to ISDA!

Congratulations on becoming a part of our team!

Our whole group welcomes you to the Innovative Software and Data Analysis group at NCSA.

We are looking forward to creating great things with you.

Welcome aboard!

• Who to contact if you are sick, want to request vacation, etc.
  • Vacation: Talk to your team lead - will the time impact deliverables for the group?
  • Vacation and Sick Time - email isda@lists.illinois.edu to let people know you will not be in the office
  • Update your Outlook Calendar with Vacation/Days off
  • Place time in Savannah - VSL
• A list of all the pertinent list serve email addresses, etc.
  • isda@lists.illinois.edu - emails the whole team
• Make note of any weekly meetings to be attended
  
  • We meet as a group on Monday's at 9:30 to do a Weekly Kickoff - what is the primary thing you are going to be working on for the week on your projects?
  • We meet as a group on Friday's at 10:00 for a weekly round up of What Rocks (what went well this week) and What Sucked (what didn't go well this week) and "Lightning Talks" or presentation of cool stuff people are working on or learning about
  • You will have weekly meetings for each group you are assigned to - work with Shannon Bradley to make sure you are added to team invites
• Weekly Reporting
  • The ISDA team has a Confluence Page for Weekly Task Management - Please list what you are going to be working on each week and what you got done each week in the update page
    • The pages are titled:  201X-XX-XX - ISDA Team - Stand Up Meeting Notes
    • Link: 2018-02-26 - ISDA Team - Stand-up Meeting Notes

Setting Up Your Computer

Make sure the following programs are loaded:

• Microsoft Office – including Skype for Business
  
  • OR Google Docs (depending on team requirements)
• Crash Plan - should be on your device when you receive it
• Box App - for secure document sharing
  
  • University of Illinois Box - https://box.illinois.edu/
  • Application - to keep your files synched with your box - https://www.box.com/resources/downloads
• Internet and Network Access is configured based on your University ID
  • https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/display/HELP/Getting+Started+at+NCSA+Home
  • Accounts at NCSA:
    • Kerberos
    • Your Windows Login
    • University Accounts

  • Connecting to IllinoisNet:

    If you need wireless access, we recommend that you connect to the campus-provided IllinoisNet.  To get this setup follow the instructions here. 
    Anyone in the Desktop Support Team can also assist you with connecting to the network.  To use this network you will need to know your University of Illinois NetID and Password.

  • You will also see NCSAnet - and most programmers use this SSID for correct networking access to preoject resources

ISDA Tools

• Confluence - GoogleDocs, UofIBox, or appropriate wiki / documentation repository

  • Opensource:  https://opensource.ncsa.illinois.edu/

  • NCSA Internal: https://wiki.ncsa.illinois.edu/

• JIRA - or Trello, GihHub Issues, ZenHub etc.
• Slack -
• Development IDE and tools: JetBrains Toolbox:  https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox/app/
• Bitbucket - GitHub, ZenHub, or appropriate repository
• Team Cloud access - Nebula, AWS, GCE, etc.

Useful technical tutorials:

• Atlassian Basics
  • Confluence
  • JIRA
  • BitBucket
• Git Basics: https://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1
• Git Branching: https://learngitbranching.js.org/
• Docker: https://docs.docker.com/get-started/
• Kubernetes: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tutorials/kubernetes-basics/cluster-interactive/

Important Websites

• Savannah - https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/
• Vacation and Sick Leave is under Employment/HR in Savannah
  
  • direct link is here: https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/vsl/
• Positive Time Reporting – This is in Savannah but may be hard to find the first time – once you use it the link will show in your Recent Apps
  • https://hrnet.uihr.uillinois.edu/PTRApplication/index.cfm?fuseaction=TimeSheetEntryForm
• NESSIE - https://nessie.uihr.uillinois.edu/cf/sitelogin.cfm
• To sign the Security Document Agreement from the HR training document:
  • https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/securitydoc/
• To sign the Building Emergency Action Plan from the HR document:
  • https://internal.ncsa.illinois.edu/mis/agreement/index.php