The last days of the project

The project is now about to end.

What do we have? An DMS that works like an ftp client but with revisioning, tags and comments for all files. Well OK, not really. It is a SVN client in bottom, but looks more like a ftp-client. The GUI is based on SWT (www.eclipse.org/swt/) , and the SVN integration is done using SVNKit (www.svnkit.com).

It has been hectic over these last few days, since me and Philip pretty much have been alone implementing everything. All the others have been working on the final report and have implemented a maximum of one class and/or method each. All of which have contained errors or awful code. I really expect our supervisor to give us two better grades for our work into this project. Fact is that without us they would be stuck with a GUI right now. Nothing more than a GUI. Personally I would not be very pleased to see a GUI with out logics if I was our customer. Still there is some stuff left to do. About 5 months of work, one drop-off, one complete idiot, and 5 guys who still try of which 2 can actually produce code that works. I'm impressed by how we went from the Adrian spiral of doom, to a 90% working application in 2 weeks actually. It makes me proud to see how it turned out. I don't know what the idiot is thinking though. First he tried to get me to write code for him that he could say was his, of course I declined his moronic idea. Now he wants to implement something just to be able to pass the project. Although I can't believe that our supervisor will pass him since he did not do jack-shit up until this week. Now all of a sudden he tries to save his ass, by all means necessary. When this project is over, I am NEVER working with this guy EVER again. I don't care much for him as a person either. Not that he means any harm, but trying to make me cheat with him because he wants to regain 5 months of hard work in 5 days is just a slap in the face. I hope the supervisor returns the favor.

As a side note I went to see Richard Staalman hold a seminar today here in Gothenburg. Man that guy can talk. It was really interesting actually, since I did not know that much history behind the Free software foundation. Now I would say it is a really good thing they exist. His ideas about the Copyright laws is really interesting as well.