Jan 5 2012
Version 0.6 continues to run fine – if you were watching yesterday you may have seen the data at Wunderground off-line for most of the day. This was a switch failure here; WeatherCat had no connectivity at all from about 08:30 until 16:00. It coped with it well and came back on-line when it regained access to the Internet.
An unexpected test, but a good result!
Jan 3 2012
That didn’t take as long as it should have! Just put what is hoped to be the last 0.6 build on-line. Need to monitor it for a bit – it could be really unstable.
If Wunderground stops updating you know we’ll be back in 0.6 land tomorrow. (And whilst you’re on that page, check-out the 64 M.P.H. wind we got this morning! £560 worth of damage right there say’s our builder. Thankyouverymuch).
The 0.6 development was for just one feature that can be summed up in a few words, but brings good flexibility. It was one of those fun things to do, but it was a feature that was difficult to UI.
There’s an old adage in software: ‘Always throw your first attempt away’. In this case that feature took three attempts to get right – the engineering was pretty trivial (it normally is when you’re working with your own code) but the integration and UI was ‘tricky’ – not totally happy with it even now, but it’s a lot better than the first effort 🙂
Now to find out if it’s stable and onto the marathon slog that is version 0.7. The work for 0.7 mainly consists of lots of little bits and pieces along with circa 20 bugs that have been noted. But the good thing with little bugs is they’re quite easy to put away – handy for when there’s only five or ten minutes available.
Either way, 0.7 may take some time; I prefer big chunks to little bits (who doesn’t?!)….
Jan 2 2012
Its going well – had this one down as about a week’s worth, but one day in and it’s looking like it might be finished tomorrow!
Jan 1 2012
Welcome to Trixology! Development on WeatherCat version 0.6 has just started; when we get to version 0.8 we will start a private beta cycle, with a public beta at version 0.9. More soon…
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