PhET Progress Report

Sam Reid

Oct. 30, 2008

An online version of this report is available here.

Here’s a pie chart representation of the time distribution.

Sim Tracking

· Refactor message types, see #789, see new examples here

· Convert TrackingManager to multithreaded, make sure messages are sent in correct order

· Make sure all messages are sent before sim exit

VPN

· Investigate NCP and Juniper SSL client

· Investigate possibility of static IP address

CCK

· Added a right-click wiggle me, see #784 and dev version

Eating & Exercise

· Posted 0.00.87, with 11 minor changes

· What's next?

Misc

· Started upgrading microwaves to latest phetcommon

· Discuss string matching in Translation Utility with Chris

· Fixes for cursor handler bug pointed out by John in #873, waiting for John to confirm & close

· QWI bugfix, wouldn't launch in some non-English languages, needs to be tested and posted to main site

Upcoming Work

· See ticket report "Sam R: Report" here

High Priority items on my list:

website	make translated sims available offline
translation-general	Make sure all sims use proper convention for string property files.
phetcommon	Some remaining issues for Updates/Tracking
all-sims	Licensing issues
all-sims	Localization Issues revealed by Alex's study
<none>	New Motion Simulation Suite
<none>	Get VPN working on development machine
phetcommon	Move to Java 1.5
build-process	Delete sourceforge account
build-process	Set up a workflow for posting a candidate simulation on dev and copying to tigercat after verification