I think this was the last update in August saying release by end of year.
"I am promising no later than the end of this year for the first release with beta available to those that want it (and understand what they are getting into!) before then." Still on track for end of year? Anyone been beta testing? If so....How's it looking? Thanks... -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Neal Campbell Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 10:52 AM To: DXBase List Subject: [Dxbase] Status report Hi all I know you are all waiting for a schedule for version 10 but its beyond prediction at this moment. I have purposely slowed down my other business so I can spend 4-6 hours a day on it and I promise I am doing this 7 days a week, even on vacation. I am sure its part of my learning curve but I am learning so much as I go along that I am reiterating the design of the code itself to the point that I re-write much of what I have written before. This might sound unproductive but I have been the victim of rushing code out that ultimately proved a poor match for the windows architecture and unmaintainable. Version 10 is 100% my product, I am using code from v2007 either directly or interpreted into another language (C#) as I progress. The reason is I am re-designing it from the original C++/MFC framework to the more modern C#/dot net 4.0 framework. I have taken quite a bit of time to make this decision as the languages and frameworks have almost nothing in common except curly brackets and semi-colons. Since the basic designs of MFC is a completely different philosophy of programming versus dot Net, I can use defined functions but the main organization of the code isn't transferable. So, what does this give you, the user? 1. Hopefully a more expandable architecture, to accommodate interfacing with more and varied hardware and software services without sacrificing the speed of your user interface 2. Better integration with Windows 7, taking advantage of its wonderful features 3. Active development/maintenance on areas of need 4. Retaining the modes of operation of the v2007 program (for those who love it) alongside a different operational model. You get to choose which one you want. Its possible this expands to a more streamlined contest mode without having to bother with import/export issues with other program 5. More control of how the program looks and acts. You will be getting a "skinning" feature that will let you change the look of quite a bit of the user interface. 6. More reliable program, mainly because I am using some tenets of the Test Driven Design model, so the program will be tested in an automated way before any release is available even on beta. I never promise to hit the quality mark of Jack and crew because their coding skills are fantastic, but with testing tools like the unit test projects that can test the discrete parts of the program (its how I am making sure it works like v2007), I think it fundamentally should be high quality. So thats the scoop at this time. The basic database stuff is working, the stuff like rig control, packet interface, etc. is more complicated as almost every step I take there shows me I can do a better job of organizing the main code. Its how I learn unfortunately! Stay tuned! 73 I am promising no later than the end of this year for the first release with beta available to those that want it (and understand what they are getting into!) before then. Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 645 5394 NEW PHONE NUMBER Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
