Monday, 7 January 2008
SAB presentation for Lightdraw is tomorrow. Lightdraw game with two shapes is really giving me problems today which bugs me quite a bit. It was working perfectly the week before. I guess I must have made one too many changes. Oh well. We used back the single shape game which we made a backup the previous week for the presentation.
There were many people needing to use the Mac today. Thus we were unable to develop much on it.
Practiced a few times with Kevin on the procedure of the demonstration and the clicking and drawing in Lightdraw.
Hopefully all goes well tomorrow.
Tuesday, 8 January 2008
SAB presentation went relatively well. The only minor hiccups were that after the Skype conversation with the researcher in India was turned off forcefully (via Apple + Q), the program did not release the camera resource that it was holding on to. We panicked a little before Kevin decided to show the video first. After the video, the SAB members were genuinely interested and did not mind while Kevin took a minute or two to restart the Mac Pro.
After restarting, the camera managed to work and we managed to continue with the presentation smoothly. :)
Wednesday, 9 January 2008
Since SAB presentation is still on, we need not be physically present at IHPC today. As such, I took the time to ponder about some of my other commitments and take a break from Lightdraw for a while.
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Returned to work and played around with the two shape whackapeng code which did not seem to work. Did not manage to find what was causing it as we only had 4 hours of time inside the COVE to work on Lightdraw today as other teams needed to use the room.
Friday, 11 January 2008
Had a meeting with Lightdraw team to discuss about the progress thus far and the next (few) step(s) which we should take before JL and I officially end our 16 weeks here in IHPC [attached at the end of today's portion]. Time really flies as we are already in our last 4 weeks here.
After which, I worked a bit on the SIP report regarding the company's nature of business section which I had difficulty doing without the help of Kevin. (Thanks!)
Lastly, spent some time cleaning up the source code folder in my account on the Light machine and finally decided to redo the two shape game from scratch as I made too many changes with the original code that I do not even know where the error originates from. Next week is the time to go full steam into the rest of the deliverables for the project.
Next steps - 2 shape game, enlarging HCI, trail on HCI + hover to activate, move and enlarge shape and pattern concept (detecting vertex on drawn shape)
Reflection of the Week:
Lightdraw will be most likely revamped and open sourced at IHPC's open source website. And interestingly enough, I saw the pillow with a different casing at the same location on Friday again.
Anyway, my reflection for this week regards making frequent backups before making any changes. While editing code for the Lightdraw game with 2 game pieces, I had accidentally changed one too many variables across the program and could not get the game to work properly. After another fruitless day on Thursday trying to understand the changes I had made hastily, I decided to reuse a backup I had on my thumb drive to see if I could revert any of the changes. Unfortunately, the back up I had was dated way back to before we even had 2 shapes for the game pieces.
Lesson learnt: If a code works, have frequent backups of it before any changes are made to improve on it.
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