Diary of Daniel Cope

March

• Began Masters program, March 12th
• March 19th, Meeting with Stuart. Discussed:
  • Eclipse Plugins
  • Researching key figures in the field

• March 26, Meeting with Stuart.
  • Background research into frameworks.
  • Setting up black touch table.
  • Looking more into eclipse plugins.

April

• April 2, Meeting with Stuart.
  • Post project proposal to NUI forum for Google Summer of Code.
  • Error with CCV 1.5 - Running, but no camera.
  • CO241 Light sensor.

• April 23, Meeting with Stuart. Discussed:
  • Research on debugging and eclipse plugins.
  • Started basic eclipse plugin development.
  • Goal: Prototype toolkit view by end of week.
  • Looking into custom launchers for eclipse.
  • Goal: Prototype mock-up in for presentation at group meeting in a fortnight.

• April 24, HCI Group meeting
  • Administration, shifted to Wednesdays
  • Need to update elvis page

• April 30, Meeting with Stuart
  • 6 Monthly Report, moved to next meeting
  • Mock view design
  • Borrowed two books, Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs & Eclipse 3.0 Kick Start

May

• May 2
  • Reading through Eclipse 3.0 FAQs
  • Updated SVN workspace, imported demo project shell
  • Playing around with eclipse plugin wizards.

• May 3
  • Updated project diary (this)
  • Starting picking at Python and Whiley plugins.

• May 7, Meeting with Stuart
  • Demo Layout + Mock Elements
  • Met Lee Trezise, got some resources off him
  • Had a look at whiley eclipse plug-in.
  • 6 Monthly report

• May 9, HCI Group meeting
  • Met School of music people working in HCI area.
  • Met Visiting Professor (name?)
  • Craig demoed

• May 14 - 18, Graduation week!

• May 24
  • Helped Craig with presentation at JUG

• May 28, Meeting with Stuart
  • Semi-working demo of MT4J app explorer sans eclipse
  • Expectations of using Eclipse.