Archive for July, 2009
Packagers & Installers
Tuesday, July 14, 2009 13:35 No CommentsA while back I was surfing the Internet for a few days, in search of a way to package my Java application to make it executable (ideally on multiple operating systems). I am able to make it an executable jar file, however, this did not solve wanting to have the documentation installed (well optional) with the program itself. [...]
SOS Version 1.0
Friday, July 10, 2009 16:59 No CommentsI am proud to announce the release of my SOS Game version 1.0. This is the first “major” application I have done from start to finish on my own following some sort of software design. Typically I would just dive in and started coding my applications, but this time I started by coming up with [...]
Pre-release fixes & UML Diagram
Wednesday, July 8, 2009 20:42 No CommentsThe following is a summary of the glitches I found and thus fixed along with a little background on how I enhanced the look and feel of the GUI. Pre 1.0 release testing Fixes: WinnerView was not clearing the winner of previous game when new game was created Board: added variable boardSize, which stores SMALL, [...]
Logo + Final UML Diagram
Saturday, July 4, 2009 22:29 No CommentsI am pretty much ready to release v1.0 of my SOS game, however, I was hoping that I would have come up with a logo that I could use to represent both my website and my software. The following is a summary of my progress this week leading up to the release of version 1.0 [...]
Feature Set: SOS v1.0
Friday, July 3, 2009 14:46 No CommentsVersion 1.0 contains these features from the original feature set: Playing area (grid) Two player Three difficulty settings (ie: board sizes) Scoreboard to keep track of the SOS’s for each player Undo Player 1 goes first Assign own name Help/Instructions On top of initial feature set I added: Games won: the ability to keep track [...]