From: Ris M. <rm...@ne...> - 2007-06-21 23:42:42
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Hi Team, I just wanted to give a little status update here since it's been a while. First, the outcry for cross-platform compatibility a few weeks ago sort of took the wind out of my sails and made me re-examine the overall development plan. I sat back and thought about it for a while, and it comes down to resources / human resources. We just don't have the developers to do cross-platform work, so I think in the spirit of continuing to get anything done at all, we will continue to focus on Windows only. This will change only if we get more volunteer developers who are skilled in non-Windows development. Before I could get back to work on Ardanet, my company sent me to New Jersey for a week on business and ever since that trip I have not been able to get back into Ardanet development in the evenings. I am not abandoning this project, just had to put it on hold briefly. I will probably not have time for any code development between now and the MECCG Worlds at the end of July. However, I will be working on getting the business cards done to hand out at Worlds, and I still want to push for a better website before Worlds on July 27. Josh H: Can you give us an update on how it's coming with the website development? Have you been able to start on that at all or make any progress? Do you need anything from me to continue that effort? Do you think you can get this done by July 27 in time for Worlds? (or maybe a few days or a week before then so we have a chance to test and refine it before Worlds) I just checked the site and I see there is a "coming soon" page up there now. Yay! That's already a nice improvement over the raw FTP directory view we had before, so I guess you were able to get started and at least figure out how to upload files to the site. That's a good start. Can you give us an update on the rest of your progress on the website? -- Ris |
From: Josh H. <jo...@hu...> - 2007-06-21 23:53:44
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> *Josh H:* Can you give us an update on how it's coming with the website > development? Have you been able to start on that at all or make any > progress? Do you need anything from me to continue that effort? Do you > think you can get this done by July 27 in time for Worlds? (or maybe a few > days or a week before then so we have a chance to test and refine it before > Worlds) > Yes, I'm hoping to get something up by July 8/9, or somewhere right around there. I also have been busy with work. I started a new job 2 weeks ago and am busy learning how things work and all the stuff that goes with a new job. But I did start a bit on the website and plan to work on it more next weekend. A quick note about cross platform development: one thing my new job will let me do is take more classes in programming. The company has large in-house classes on many different topics, so I'm looking forward to getting a class or two on some Linux C++ developing, so maybe I can help in that area. I agree for now we need to shoot for what you guys are familiar with, but as much as possible let's try to leave the door open to add a linux client later. Just my thoughts. Okay, back to packing for a weekend trip. --Josh H. |
From: Ris M. <rm...@ne...> - 2007-06-22 00:26:59
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Thanks for the update Josh, that's great news (both the website progress and about your new job) and I completely agree about the cross-platform approach. As much as possible, we will keep the UI code separate from the Engine code where UI stuff tends to be a lot more platform-specific and Engine stuff tends to be pretty generic. We should be able to at least minimize the work required to port stuff over. -- Ris _____ From: ard...@li... [mailto:ard...@li...] On Behalf Of Josh Hunholz Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:54 PM To: Developer discussion Subject: Re: [Ardanet-developers] status update Josh H: Can you give us an update on how it's coming with the website development? Have you been able to start on that at all or make any progress? Do you need anything from me to continue that effort? Do you think you can get this done by July 27 in time for Worlds? (or maybe a few days or a week before then so we have a chance to test and refine it before Worlds) Yes, I'm hoping to get something up by July 8/9, or somewhere right around there. I also have been busy with work. I started a new job 2 weeks ago and am busy learning how things work and all the stuff that goes with a new job. But I did start a bit on the website and plan to work on it more next weekend. A quick note about cross platform development: one thing my new job will let me do is take more classes in programming. The company has large in-house classes on many different topics, so I'm looking forward to getting a class or two on some Linux C++ developing, so maybe I can help in that area. I agree for now we need to shoot for what you guys are familiar with, but as much as possible let's try to leave the door open to add a linux client later. Just my thoughts. Okay, back to packing for a weekend trip. --Josh H. |