Archive for July, 2009

Packagers & Installers

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 13:35 No Comments

A 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. [...]

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SOS Version 1.0

Friday, July 10, 2009 16:59 No Comments

I 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 [...]

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Pre-release fixes & UML Diagram

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 20:42 No Comments

The 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, [...]

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Logo + Final UML Diagram

Saturday, July 4, 2009 22:29 No Comments

I 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 [...]

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Feature Set: SOS v1.0

Friday, July 3, 2009 14:46 No Comments

Version 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 [...]

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