[CompInaBox-discuss] Initial development release of "FloorCraft"

[Eric D N. <nie...@MI...>]

Over the past two weekends I've been working on the off-line scheduling
component of CIB, "FloorCraft".  I have two more feature sets to implement
before it can do "anything", which point it'll be committed as a new module in
the CIB sf.net CVS repository; I hope that will be sometime this week.

I'd greatly appreciate code review at that time (if you want to see the current
non-useful code, please let me know).

FloorCraft is designed to be the useful for event organizers in both the
pre-planning and the week-of planning stage.  In Pre-planning I'm hoping that
it can be used to do lots of "what-ifs" of different event offerings, session
layout, etc.  In the week-of planning its main goal is reconciling event size
estimates with actual registration figures and producing the round-by-round
schedule.

Currently, the application:
  Allows you to Add Sessions
  Allows you to Add Events to a Session
  Allows you to Save

The two missing feature sets for what I'm considering the initial developer
releases are:
  Load
  Hard-coded timing calculation (ie no user customization of heat sizes, music
length, etc at this time)

Of course, stuff like rename and delete sessions is needed soon; as well as
edit/delete events, etc.  The initial developer release is not meant as a
useable tool yet.

Its written in Java; it has full JUnit tests and uses EasyMock and Jemmy for
testing the graphical elements.  I'm using Eclipse and haven't setup an Ant
build yet and am rather clueless about a lot of thing like that.  I suspect my
current MVC implementation is slightly off.

Just a heads up about what's coming soon.

Eric