Not at Ipswich

Stephen,

You won't have seen me at the lecture today. I've stayed in Bris. Left a msg on facebook for you with the reason.

In respect to the thesis,

Quiet;y starting to freak out myself. Bugs lately have been eating me alive. Their places in the code which are obfuscated to the nth degree, hence I just can't sit down and start. It's been taking about half hour to remember the place I was at. On top of that Internet is running at snails pace.

Things remaining:
Thesis
(Done by end of Holidays, 8 days remaining)
1. Parse the Input correctly (2 days)
Normalized values are driving me nuts. I had to convert the raw values into a float[] held by a generic gesture. Hence the normalized valued is an array of lengths like 150+ beiung spilt into 35ish average values. Long story short, slow to work out which values are actually being used. Not enough time now to convert the program back to the wii specific version.

2. Calculate the gesture vals based on the Parsed input (Dependant on 1.) (1 day)
Once the normalized values are working this is just going through the motions. Perform a gesture 20 times, see the identifying values. Hardcore the values. Perform each gesture look for common clashes. If clash occurs, restrict/increase the identifying values.
Ideally (I.e. not enough time left) get other people to perform the gestures and uysed their mannerisms as the identifiers.

3. Create the skin for media portal (2 days)
Exegesis in working through tutorials on the web. Languages is c#. This may cause problems, but the workaround if it does is explained below in 4.

4. Throw the gesture calls to the media portal skin. (1 days)
Ideally the calls are from c++ (Wiidia) to c#(Wiidia skin). Plan to get done through external calls to WindowCommand calls. Failing this Media Portal allows Keyboard mappings to be allocated, this is the work around by having media C++ throw event handlers for the logical keyboard mapping. I think this keyboard mapping lends itself to a nice comparison in the thesis.

Assessment
1. Poster (14 days remain)
Thinking background pictures of the program superimposed with explanations of the design reasoning and features will be a good layout. Invites trouble with logical flow to the poster through.

2. Abstract (14 days remain)
Going to get a version of this up here really soon. Begin with a version of the elevator pitch. This is dependent on the skin for the program. Ultimately the skin shows the features.

3. Thesis Document (32 days remain)
Drawn out from abstract. Really need to start writing.

On a personal note,
The bugs in the program are really starting to stress me out. Work is killing me, getting as many shifts as the full-timer, but I'm think I have a solution for that. Sooooo many group assignments for uni as well, I always stress when others are involved and 4 group assignments is just insane.
Hopefully, reason for starting in Bris today will be nothing, and I get the input to parse correctly before work tonight.

-SRE