Sep
16
(2004)
Pachyderm Foundation Development
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I’ve left (early) from the Pachyderm development session. King and Josh kept going, and we’re going to be unbelievably close to a working Pachyderm Presentation Authoring application. The work is shifting to the user interface, so changes will become visible.
We took some photos today, to document the ad-hoc Extreme Programming setup we adopted, and some of the results.
First, we have the “before” picture. The original Pachyderm 1.0 database schema we inherited:

Then, we have the ad-hoc Extreme Programming sessions:

and, the final database schema for Pachyderm 2.0:

The main foundation stuff that’s left is the entering of screen and component data, integration with APOLLO resource management, and the generation of the xml files to be read by the Pachyderm flash templates. I’m guessing King and Josh will have tackled a good chunk of this already. Next, we’ll be able to focus on the authoring UI almost exclusively.


Note to self: lose about 20 pounds…
Note to D’arcy — you’re way ahead of the game in my book. I’ve got to lose about fifty
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audio channel, and Breeze Live for a shared whiteboard. This is working almost as well as when Josh flew up to Calgary for a week. I think we’ll be able to ge [...]