Just in case someone thought that this project is dead, I would to disprove them of this. I’ve resumed work on justCheckers with a slight change of direction. Over the past few months, I’ve started work as an Android developer for a media firm and I’d like to apply all that I have learned on this project. By switching over to Android, there are a lot of things that will get simplified. Especially the end product is a lot easier to deploy on Android handsets than on desktops. Does this mean that the desktop version will cease to exist? No. Rather it will be easier to the desktop version, once the existing codebase is refactored. But for now I will concentrate on the Android version, because it is easier, more fun and will easily raise the visibility of the project.
Category Archives: News
New Site
Apologizes for the surprise website change. However after months of silence and lots of haggling with Drupal, I just could not take it anymore. So now the official justCheckers site runs on WordPress 3! Yay!
This website is still a work in progress. I still need to upload the old content from the older Drupal site. Also while the default theme is great, it really needs some love before I can say the website is fully ready. Hopefully before the end of next week, I’ll have most of this done.
New Developers and Mailing List
I am e-mailing back all those interested in contributing to justCheckers. We also have one new developer: welcome pushdown! Finally the justcheckers-developers mailing list is back in action. I suggest all developers and potential contributers subscribe to the developer mailing list. Looks like we have a go for justCheckers!
Apologies to All Who Answered My Call for Help
Oh my, I must apologize to everyone who has offered to help with the justCheckers project. It seems that my Gmail spam filter likes to chuck SourceForge related e-mails into the abyss of the spam folder. And I just noticed a whole thread of people offering to help with justCheckers! I apologize for not checking earlier. I will get back to all of you who replied back to my call for help, very, very shortly. In the future I will keep an eye on my spam folder, to make sure this doesn’t happen again.
Cleaned Up and Open for Business
It took a while. A much needed upgrade, some changes to bring this site back into the larger multi-site effort I’m involved and some re-integration work back into SourceForge… and justCheckers is back! Finally there are no more blockers to getting back into coding, and hopefully moving this project forward. The plan is to finally get around to implementing the work I’ve meant to implement for so long.
So justCheckers is open for business… and is seeking new developers.
Back on SourceForge
I tried, but I just could not wrap my head around Bazaar and Launchpad. Both are amazing technologies from one of my favourite firms: Canonical. However for this project, there was too much hassle to get started and to migrate to using Bazaar. So instead I’m reverting back to the tried and true: Subversion and SourceForge. I setup a new account for myself on SourceForge, and renewed the project’s account. I’ll setup a TaskFreak! TODO list and web analytics for the project next. And after that I’ll dive back into developing justCheckers. Also plan on recruiting developers to help out once I stabilize the source code.
Migrated to Launchpad
The fine folks at Launchpad have imported the justCheckers source code from SourceForge’s Subversion repository to Launchpad’s Bazaar repository. The Launchpad page for the project is at: https://launchpad.net/justcheckers
I’m still new to using the Bazaar version control system that Launchpad uses. In fact hosting a project on Launchpad is new for me too. Expect some turbulence until I’ve figured out how to best develop using Launchpad.
Welcome to the New justCheckers Website
Welcome to the brand new justCheckers website. The site is fresh after an install. It may take some time before all the content from the older sites is migrated over. Over the next couple weeks, the plan is to bring the project back up to full steam. This will include regular release schedules, an active development team and regular updates to the site and codebase.
A New Home
Welcome to the new home for the justCheckers project. I’m still setting this site up, so expect some rough edges here and there. I’ll post more stuff in the near future.