Sam the Helper Hero (Programmer Personas)
This past week, Eric and I have been designing and starting to implement the code framework for WeSay. I have rarely had a chance to do this kind of “green fields” architecture before, but I have done it enough to recognize some of the dangers, such as those described by… Read More
Today we broke ground on “the real thing”. All of the prototype code has been put away (still in the code repository, of course) and we are starting from scratch. The prototype has served us well, helping us to answer many questions. As a last hurrah for the app, Andy… Read More
I’ve updated our mockups here, based on the work that Berm, Eric and I did last week. They are not 100% faithful to what we are actually planning, especially on the OLPC version (where we won’t be spending precious screen space on tab bars, for… Read More
Wednesday we said goodbye to the last of our guests who flew over to discuss collaborating on applications for language development on low-power computers. Everyone seems to have had a good time, or at least have a lot of good Thai meals. Berm not only to time off from his… Read More
Besides buying paint for the office (which we fear may now end up looking like a coffee house), I drew up some mockups of a configuration application, here. top… Read More
Now that I’ve finished with the big tasks related to getting our web presence up, I finally got to code some today. Mainly about getting my process down, I installed NUnit and began creating a class to help John determine how long a process takes only to find that .NET… Read More
31 Flavors, 400 Volts, and 1 Million of Anything
This afternoon, Eric and I first went shopping for office plants, then did a Thai language study session in the nearby ice cream shop. Doesn’t sound like we were working very hard, does it? Here’s our excuse: It started out just before lunch, when the power went out. No big… Read More
Light at the End of this Tunnel
We started out the day today with our goal of getting our test app running on mono on OLPC. Mono doesn’t come with the OLPC distribution so we will need to add it. This led us to try to download the OLPC RPM image (since it comes with RPM and… Read More
Normally, software development really is fun. So much so, we sometimes neglect the parts that aren’t fun. Recognizing this, we decided upfront to tackle the high risk and no fun parts of this project, rather than put them off. On the no-fun front, we (mostly Eric) has been dueling with… Read More
This morning we decided to not continue the fight with our confluence installation and have instead switched to use WordPress for our blog and MediaWiki for our wiki. John is switching our content over now. “Come on, confluence, stay up just a little longer and then you can rest in… Read More