Day 12 of 30

On the twelfth day…

I spent most of the time further cleaning up the code and making sure the user interface interacts together properly i.e. all the drop down boxes are populated properly, the selected entries bring back the correct information, the tab order is correct etc. All these things are little but in the end they add up to making the application pleasant or annoying to use.

I’ve included a screenshot below showing the tabs to the different pages as well as the product dashboard with the List Issues showing. As you can see, I’ve been using it to track the changes I need to add or fix or improve on. While I was using the Issues function it made me realise that there was still something missing from the details window (see Issue Detail screenshot below) which was a description of the solution. Having a place where to record the solution to a problem can assist in resolving related problems in the future. I might even extract these solutions into some sort of knowledgebase (version 2.x perhaps?).

Here is the Issues Detail window with showing the page describing the resolution to the problem.

I think the application is now ready for alpha testing (with the reporting the only missing portion as far as I know). In the next day’s report (Day 13) I will include the download link.

A recent post from Scott Kane mentions about NextGrid from BergSoft and I made a note to examine the possibility of using their grid component for the application. The only unknown is how much impact will it have on the overall progress that I am making. I am sure it will set me back a day or so if I decide to use it. So for now, I think I’ll leave it for later.

I have this growing feeling of confidence that everything will be finished (at least for version 1.0) by June 30. Till next time.