PhET Progress Report
Sam
Reid
December
17, 2009
An
online version of this report is available here.
Here’s
a pie
chart representation of the time distribution.
Motion series
·
Done
1. Reviewed NP’s interview notes and recommendations for motion
series and started discussion thread
2. Made 9 fixes, available in version 1.03.63
3. Discussed how motion-series sims should
be deployed, given that they are in different projects with name changes, See #1948
4. Improved fonts & layout for force vector labels
·
To Do
1. Thirteen issues remaining in to-do
document
2. How to handle sim name change? See #1948
1. We should probably fix translation utility to support strings
located elsewhere.
3. Internal cleanup and refactoring for motion-series
4.
Moving Man
Unfuddle Notifier
·
Done
o Identified the cause of unfuddle notifier outage
o Contacted ITS
to set up a Colorado-based account.
o Identified a 250 relaying denied
error
o Looked into legal text for google and Comcast
o See #2016
for details
·
To
Do
o See if we can get CU working
o If not, look into legal issues in
google or comcast
Phetcommon
·
Done:
1.
Ported
MyCanvas from Scala to Java
as PlayArea, see # 1907
2.
Discussion
of PlayArea
·
To
Do:
1.
More
improvements of PlayArea # 1907
Eating & Exercise
·
To
Do
1.
Port
motion-series controls to Java
2. Avoiding
work on E&E during code freeze
3. Noah:
What is the probability we will want to use temporal charts in this sim, possibly in the future?
4. Implement
changes as per Noah’s mock-up (see email)
Piccolo
·
To
Do
1.
#1821 update piccolo
1. Sims need re-testing with recent pswing
changes
2. PSwing
needs improvements for removing components, #1874
1.
Any other fixes we want in before
1.3 release?
