A tutorial for programmer

I think I will just have to admit that no mather how often I hope to publish news on this blog, I will always be late. But the fact is, running late is the only thing that pushes me to write here so I will keep trying to keep a reasonable pace and I will keep complaining about being late. I hope you guys don't mind.

As for now, I have some news although not many. Archimedes is quite stuck this week since today (thursday) is a holiday and it was half of our programming time. The other half was monday and we didn't used it to program for once. It was burned down making up a talk and a demonstration about how to develop plugins for Archimedes.
I've tried to keep all the documents in english so I could share them later on the internet but I still have a big work to do: the screencast.
The talk was composed of three parts, two of which I made and the first one was made by an Archimedes collaborator (Julien Renaut). It is mostly focused on programming problems and how people can add features to Archimedes. His talk was about extensions and extension points which are some concepts used by eRCP to allow plugins to add functionality to the main software. His work was done in Portuguese but I will translate it and insert it into the main talk I will upload.
The second part was my talk which was a lot more about Archimedes and how our main structure works. It tries to let people understand the flow of information within the software. It has a couple of "UML" (those are not really UML but kind of) figures and a nice review about Archimedes' main classes. I need to add the notes on this talk so that people can look at the talk and understand what I was trying to talk about.
The third and last part was a small example of how to create a plugin project that would add a new element to the software. This is quite a long work and I want to have a screencast of that with my voice explaining what is going on. So it will probably take me some time (maybe a month) to have it all working fine.

Also, there is a volunteer architect building up a user guide much better than anything we could ever produce. It is currently ongoing and is in Portuguese but as soon as it is finished, I will ask for help on translating this to several languages.

Speaking of languages, I am getting desperate to have Archimedes' build system working with maven 2 has said before. This would allow me to have a src.zip deploy once more as well as a nice translation zip file to have people translating the software more frequently and easily.

So that's what I've been doing. I've also been working hard to try to solve the problems from the uva gadget but I've been failing a lot which is not really keeping my moral up. :( Also, my desktop seems to have died on me. This doesn't means many loses at the moment but makes me quite upset and will probably take me some precious time to fix. Until then I might just not have anything to test Archimedes on Windows or Linux so I hope you guys keep sending us reports.

That's it. Bye bye!