Tri-Weekly Blog Post - Friday (a day early)

Speaking Points
-Clean Installation Process
-Improved Demo
-A series of tutorials

So the clean installation process is well under way. The front-end is essentially done, and all snazzed up. The design document is still in the draft process, but I'm working with Jim to make it not-a-draft. The installer went through several phases:

+Prototype (Paul)
+GUI, most of the GUI control (Me)
+Linking GUI and backend (Paul)

Getting the GUI working as a nightmare. Originally, I tried using several ways to do it. First I tried Jigloo and VE. Neither of them worked, so then I tried to do it by hand. Once that also failed, I started trying to to find plug-ins for Eclipse to get it working. Eventually, I learned of an awkward way to get VE working, so I set off to work on my GUIs. Once the GUIs were built, I put together a basic framework for making installers. This was a pretty easy process. As it stands, the UIs are done, and now it's in Paul's hands. Godspeed, Paul. Godspeed.

The improved demo is at a bit of an awkward phase. The original module idea might take way too long, but it might not. It's still our backup plan. The other idea we had, hijacking the snowman game, we found out was a bit infeasible because the code was done quickly (as they have a deadline fast approaching), so refactoring it and fixing it would take a long time. It's still our best course of action, and we'll dig through the source code before the end of this week.

Progress
Since my last blog post, I have:

+Wrote a design document draft for the installer, working on the next draft with Jim
+Wrote a framework for the installer
+Made all the GUIs and associated artwork for the installer
+Had a meeting with Owen to discuss the snowman game demo
+Had lunch 4 times

All of the points were mentioned above, so there's really no point going in detail. Also, lunch here is way too expensive and not terribly good quality. I miss the Building 43 and 41 Cafes.