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What is taking me busy – Pomotux!

I’m currently pressed by my University life, that’s because I don’t post often.
There are 3 big projects for this semester: a C compiler, a dynamic website using Java Servlets and JSP and the most interesting one: a C++ program for Software Engineering Project course.
I’m working with other two collegues on a task manager for people using the Pomodoro Technique by Francesco Cirillo.
The project is called Pomotux and is under development following strong software engineering methodologies (Scrum@Xp). Pomotux is under construction since 2 months and uses technologies such as SQLite to store and play with tasks. The interesting fact regarding our data structure choice is that we are also using a framework for obtaining ORM, called LiteSQL.

LiteSQL is a C++ library that integrates C++ objects tightly to relational database and thus provides an object persistence layer

LiteSQL is still young and immature but powerful enough for our scope. We are also happy to provide feedback to their developers, that are ready to help us. They even wrote a patch for us!
Pomotux is reaching an unexpected stability. Unexpected because it is written by 3 young people that come from a light Java experience and saw C++ 3 months ago. It works under Linux and its graphical interface uses QT 4.5.0. It should work on any *NIX variant that meets dependencies, but also under Windows with some light modifications.
It will support just the basic features of the technique (unfortunately we don’t have the time to fully work on it) but it’s ready for expansions such as team support and statistics.
We will be happy to release the sources as soon as we finish the course, hoping that people will find it useful and that some serious programmers take it and make it the perfect tool for Pomodorians :) I will also contact the author of the Pomodoro Technique when we release it.

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Unipoli

We finally finished our university project, Unipoli. The Java implementation of the famous Monopoly game by Hasbro has been released under GPLv3 (yes it’s free software) . You can have a look at the source code, simple but elegant, written using coding standards, following xP practices and Scrum software development process (at least we tried to follow them).
On the project site you will find useful documentation, too: Vision Statement, User Stories, Noun Extraction, Product Backlog, UML Classes, Hierarchy and Relations, UML class diagram, Javadoc.
The game has been written for Programming Project course.
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The product backlog becomes multicolored!

I’m very proud of this, after so many problems encountered during the first two months of development, our product backlog begins to turn green and yellow!

Anyway, I think that Scrum Method is not the best software development process that we could have adopted, I will espress my thoughts during the exam and I will publish them

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Scrum Development Process

For Programming Project course we’re adopting Scrum as software development process.
Scrum focuses on agile-like project management. The goal of Scrum is to deliver as much quality software as possible within a series of short intervals called Sprints. Scrum concentrates on identifying project variables (quality, time, requirements, etc.) and monitoring them constantly.

This process has been brought to our attention by prof. Pekka Abrahamsson, a guest professor that will stay with us until june.

I will update this page with new information as soon as they will be availabe.
These are the principal roles in Scrum:

Scrum Master: responsible for ensuring that the project is carried through according to the rules of Scrum and that it progesses as planned
Product Owner: responsible fot the project, managing and controlling. Makes the final decisions of the tasks related to a product backlog
Scrum Team: the project team that decides on the necessary actions and to organize itself in order to achieve the goals
Customer: participates in the tasks related to product backlog
Management: in charge of final decision making

Here is a nice model I drew yesterday, of the principal concepts of the Scrum method:

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Projects

Pomodroid
A Java/Android application that interacts with a Trac
system, retrieves developer’s tasks and lets him work following the basic rules of the Pomodoro technique.

Pomotux
A task manager implementing the Pomodoro Technique

BD-review
A dynamic website to allow people to review releases (albums, demos, EPs, singles) of (young, unsigned) music bands. Written using a small subset of JavaEE technologies, without the use of web-frameworks.

BD-incollo
A dpaste/pastebin clone written using Django

BD-shell
A tiny C shell for Unix systems

BD-theme Zen
BD-blog minimalistic Wordress theme, available for free

BD-theme
Old BD-blog Wordress theme, available for free

Unipoli
A well-written Java implementation of the popular Monopoli game by Hasbro. It is a project I wrote with other 3 University mates following a software development cycle (Scrum). Unipoli was the project for our Programming Project course. Source code included, released under GPL. We also provide Javadoc, user stories, uml diagrams, binaries.

Computer Shop Warehouse IDA
A very simple, not really useful IDA (Individual Database Application) developed for the “Introduction to Database Systems” course. The documentation is really interesting

Do you think my projects are useful? Has one of my projects helped you at the University? Do you like to learn something from my experience? Are you happy to be able to download every source code?
Then, why don’t you consider a small donation? Donations are useful to maintain my domains and the infrastructures that host my Projects. I’m just a student, I’m not interested to earn profits from my projects, that will always remain free. But I would be delighted to don’t pay for them :-)

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