This weekend, we made a ton of progress. An overview of our progress can be found on our team wiki.
We met for almost 4 hours on Sunday, knocking out different tasks that needed to be done. First of all, we finalized our first official version of Nutri. We made a few minor tweaks to the image files (so that the activity displayed a little nicer). After that was finished, Megan took the code and compiled it into the .XO file.
Megan also added our code to the Gitorious repository, which can be found here. This is where future development of Nutri will take place. Using Git will enable us to work with any other developers that wish to contribute to Nutri, rather than Subversion (like we have throughout the semester). This way we can still communicate with each other (meaning our team in class), along with other potential contributors.
The activity is now also posted on the sugar activities page! This is very exciting to see our project actually becoming something that can be used by others. I hope we'll get good feedback from users. At the time of writing this, it looks like we already have 2 downloads (although that could just have been us testing it out...). I'm interested to see how many downloads we get.
The wiki is now up and running! The wiki is where anyone can go to download the XO file, the source code to contribute, or to simply find out more information about Nutri. Wiki's are the preferred form of documentation for Sugar activities.
Alex spent time working on our final presentation. I'd rather not discuss too much detail about it on here, as it would give away too many surprises about our presentation. But let's just say that our "plan" is proving to be a little more difficult than expected. We may have to change a few things, but we'll see. We do still have plenty of time to get our presentation together, I believe.
I spent most of my time on Sunday creating the poster for our group. I was unaware that the poster was due at Noon on Monday, so I wanted to make sure that it was ready to go. I printed out the poster today, and I'm very happy with it! I think the poster session on Thursday will be interesting. Hopefully we will catch interest of some people at the poster session. I plan on brining my laptop to the session, just in case someone wishes to see the program itself (rather than just the poster).
I am the author of "Make Your Own Sugar Activities!" which it looks like you have discovered. It looks like you're struggling with some things that I explained in that book. You might skim some of the earlier chapters that you may have skipped over. For instance, if you're doing your Activity correctly you'll get a toolbar automatically.
ReplyDeleteThere is a Git repo with all the code from the book. You could download that and run it under your sugar-jhbuild. I give the URL of the repo in one of the earlier chapters.
Speaking of sugar-jhbuild, Fedora 12 and later comes with Sugar already built, and its a version that is new enough to do everything I describe in the book, and newer than most of what is out in the field. You should only need sugar-jhbuild if you want to work on Sugar itself.
Good luck with your project.