Team page created

[IBBoard]

I've created some team pages on the Dev site. The main reasons I did it are: a) most wikis have a user page for each member to put some details about themselves, b) it gives us a central point to link to important stuff from (like ticket lists or my DevLog), c) it gives me something to link darpified's name to when I mention he's working on the compression, and d) it means we have a slightly more obvious "WarFoundry Team"

Feel free to edit your user pages - they're quite minimal for now. If anyone else wants to be a member of the team (snowblizz - do you want to get more involved?) then just give me a shout and sign up to the Dev site

[snowblizz]

I signed up for the dev site. I need to poke around a bit and get myself familiarized.

Apart from moral support (and apparently giving illogical advice based on faulty and/or misleading documentation) I can't do much yet. Not being a programmer (I'm trained to boss programmers around however) and what not. But when we get at least a basic application to work on I'll see what I can do.
Datafile creation seems my most likely angle here. Though as an IS post-grad I should know a thing or two about application development. I might be able to put this up for usability testing as well.

[IBBoard]

Testing, non-technical point of view and data files are still appreciated, especially the non-technical parts. Techies have a very bad problem where they think it is all fine because they understand it, but non-technical users can't understand it and so the app fails to get anywhere and people won't use it.

Once we've got a slightly more stable/complete version (stable as in code changes rather than crashing - I've not crashed it yet!) then I'll see what I can do about a 0.1 alpha build



[edit] I've just created a "documenter" group who can edit the Wiki but can't do the "Admin" things to tickets. That means you can view everything, create tickets, add to tickets, and modify the Wiki. Developers (me, gregmita and darpified for now) can also edit tickets and their description (well, I can do everything, but I'm the admin )

Now to put you on the team page and think of a group for you!

[snowblizz]

Fanboy?


You are indeed spot on the technical bit, it is something that has come up once or maybe twice during my education...

Its actually an essential part of what I'm trained to do, act as a liason between managers (total noobs) and the tech side (total nerds).

[darpified]

I went around and put a few tidbits on my page, nothing major just
a short update on where things stand.

I just got through a *rough* weekend, my family just had a rough bout
of a stomach bug, first my son (4.5 yrs old), then my daughter (1.5 yrs old)
immediately after, and finally my wife.

So lots of late nights and washing the sheets and towels.

Yuck.

So unfortunately my weekend (and week) were mostly shot, which meant my
Memorial Day (for those of you not from the U.S., it's a holiday to Memorialize
all the dead U.S. soldiers. For some reason, our way of memorializing is to
have a cookout in the back yard and drink beer.)

Oh well, back on topic an interesting tidbit from Mark Nelson, the original programmer
responsible for Greenleaf's Archivelib, which Army Builder uses...

zlib turns out to be good for more than graphics developers, however. The deflate algorithm makes an excellent general purpose compressor, and as such can be incorporated into all sorts of different software. For example, I use zlib as the compression engine in Greenleaf's ArchiveLib, a data compression library that work with ZIP archives. It's performance and compatibility mean I didn't have to reinvent the wheel, saving precious months of development time.

from http://marknelson.us/1997/01/01/zlib-engine/

Ugh, right there, performance and compatibility, I wish people would learn to embrace open
standards.

In any case, we deal with what we're stuck with, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

[IBBoard]

You're just in as an "other team member" for now, unless we come up with a decent title or specific section.

It sounds like an unenviable job - communicating from those who know what they're talking about to those who just talk and pretend It is the one area that most techies are lacking in, though.

[snowblizz]

You're just in as an "other team member" for now, unless we come up with a decent title or specific section.

It sounds like an unenviable job - communicating from those who know what they're talking about to those who just talk and pretend It is the one area that most techies are lacking in, though.

Works for me.

In all honesty though I have yet to try to actually perform said functions. In an effort to avoid actually doing anything meaningful I'm now a post-grad student working on my PhD.

So you guys might just end up as gui... I mean valued contributors

[IBBoard]

Ah, the joys of being at University. I only did a BSc, but it was an easier life than working is

[IBBoard]

With our new influx of users, I've updated the team page to include people who I know have made some kind of "team contribution". I've also updated Snowblizz's page to mention the data file group. If anyone wants anything added then give me a shout and I'll either add it or bump your account up to a "wiki editor", like Snowblizz.

[snowblizz]

But I'm still the bestest fan right?

[IBBoard]

Yes, of course you are, you set up the data file group and help out by breaking things

[stfas]

wait, bestest isn't a word.

anyway just dropping by to show that im still here, though nothing to talk about really.

[IBBoard]

Glad you're still around, even if you're not overly active recently

As for "bestest", have you not seen the iPod Touch (or possibly iPhone) adverts? They annoy the hell out of my wife because they say something about being the "funnest" at the end

[stfas]

nope, haven't seen em, doesn't really watch tv either.

[snowblizz]

Glad you're still around, even if you're not overly active recently

As for "bestest", have you not seen the iPod Touch (or possibly iPhone) adverts? They annoy the hell out of my wife because they say something about being the "funnest" at the end

Yes, the word was carefully chosen to inject a certain level of levity into my rather presumptuous (at least from the POV of other fans I gather) claim to be the superlative fan.

See, I *can* use fancy words if I want.