JavaPosse Interview

I haven't posted here in a while, but this was linked from my JavaPosse interview. For my more frequently posted to blog, check out: Josh In Antarctica

PSICAT 1.0.0!

The first official version of PSICAT (version 1.0.0) has been released. It was cutting it much closer than I would have liked considering I deploy to McMurdo in 5 days, but we made it. Now I'm just focused on finishing up the documentation and working on the ANDRILL extensions. Oh yeah, and packing :)

PSICAT Progress 9/21

Still working on PSICAT--many changes since the last post. I'm getting close to making a 1.0.0 release of PSICAT before we leave for ice.

On a related note, I leave for New Zealand on Oct. 9th. So something like 2.5 weeks. I'll actually get to McMurdo on the 13th. And then things will be pretty hectic getting everything set up. Hopefully things will settle down pretty quick like afterwards. I won't be back to the States until Jan. 5th. Elizabeth got me a nice digital camera so check back here for pictures.

PSICAT Progress 8/30

There's been a lot of work going into finishing PSICAT up. I meant to make a 0.10.0 release last week but since I knew I was going to be over to Lincoln this week, I decided to put it off until Friday.

There's a bunch of new stuff going into PSICAT as well as polishing existing stuff. I'm pretty confident about the Lincoln meeting. The rest of the week I'm working on finishing a few features and then I'm going to be doing testing on the Windows side.

I'm also working on the Corelyzer plugin. It will be pretty limited in scope and functionality since it seems to be silly to duplicate all of the work I've done in PSICAT over to the Corelyzer side. I'm targetting displaying the intervals in a simplified manner and if I have more time, I'll try to load the lithology stuff. If there is a lot of interest in more functionality, I may expand the plugin. However, I'd much rather spend my time extending and polishing PSICAT.

Back to it...

PSICAT 0.9.0

PSICAT version 0.9.0 is out the door.  This release offers a bunch of minor bugfixes and also adds support for custom diagram templates (see ANDRILL MIS Diagram under templates when you create a new diagram) and exporting to single or multiple images (see Export Images).

There will likely be two releases before the ANDRILL pre-drilling meeting on 9/1.  These releases will be focused on fixing bugs and finishing the last bit of major functionality.

PSICAT Progress 8/7

Haven't made much progress on PSICAT since the 0.8.0 release.  I was down at TAMU for LIMS training last week so now I'm just trying to settle back in.  I've created a prioritized list of items to get done before the pre-drilling meeting at the end of the month.

PSICAT 0.8.0

Just tagged and released version 0.8.0 of PSICAT.  The export to a single image and to the database is included in this release.  I also worked hard on polishing up the UI.  I tried to use progress bars where applicable and added the ability to delete models via a context menu.  Also, almost all of the model changes are GEF commands so they can be undone/redone (via context menu and key bindings).  I also worked up drag and drop so you can order models and drag them to other valid containers.  Still a fair number of things to do but it is all pretty small stuff.