1:38
Waiting for Darren to show up. David McDaniel just showed up. Setting up for a long meeting.
1:41
Bron is talking about branching the code. Eating Jimmy John’s sandwich. Talking about versioning and web service versioning.
1:43
Darren still hasn’t shown up yet. Bron is getting the boring stuff out of the way. He’s about to branch the code. Michael wants to get some changes in.
1:45
Anybody ever get a branch of code in Flex? Didn’t think so. Hey, Darren showed up! Bron is branching. And doing naming conventions. We loves teh conventions.
1:47
Branch failed! Cool error sound of glass breaking. I’m getting crumbs everywhere. Bron is trying to branch the code, but he’s not having much luck. Not much is happening, going to work on flex stuff for a bit.
1:54
Safari crashed on me because there was an unhandled exception in the Flash Player. Great job Adobe. The guys are talking about Sushi Donut (a local sushi restaurant). Mmm, sushi.
1:56
Woo! Bron got the code branched. Now Bron is explaining how to work on branched code. We will continue to develop on main trunk, while branch stays stable.
1:58
Michael has terrible eyesight. We can’t focus the projector anymore. Bron is demonstrating checking stuff out in Flex Builder. He typed the word that cannot be spoken.
2:01
Numerous references to frosty the snowman and stupid managers. Don’t ask, I didn’t.
2:03
This meeting really is boring. Hopefully it will get better. Gary just left and re-entered the room unnoticed. This is going to take a while.
2:05
I will update again when something interesting happens. Like when we talk about refactoring or timelines or something.
2:35
Took a 30 minute break for office birthday party. Now Bron is talking about interesting things, including architecture and webORB data services.
2:58
We’ve been talking about reusable code, using MXML components instead of SWC files. Now we’re talking about converting to an MVC framework, timetables, etc. Very exciting.
Summary
Sorry I didn’t live blog the last hour of the meeting. You didn’t miss much, believe me. Actually, I’m kinda disappointed. The meeting went almost exactly as I had predicted. At one point it seemed like we were talking about the right things, but then we started getting way ahead of ourselves.
I don’t feel like the issues dear to me were adequately addressed:
- Reusable, maintainable code implementing primarily an MVC framework.
- Three words: centralized event manager.
- Object model, comprehensive refactoring plan.
I will get into this more in my next post, but I believe if these three things are properly applied to the app, Unifyer will indeed change the world.