January 23

Our group met earlier today. We discussed things we found on the XBMC wiki, forums, and IRC channel. We also talked about the possibility of changing our group name, but for now we're all okay with it. Oh! I just realized that I've completely forgotten to mention to you who's in the group. Sorry about that. The group members of Team Triple J are Jason Leonard, Matthew Vaveris, Jimmy Joy, David Schirduan, and myself. Anyway, the meeting didn't take too long. I think it's because we all did this last semester in CSCI 362 and know the ropes a bit better now when it comes to getting things going with the group project. With the exception of Jimmy and David, who worked together in a group last semester, we haven't worked together before. I like that. It's a way of preparing us for the real world. Let's face it, once we graduate and go off to work in this field, we probably won't be working with the same people on every project. Learning to work well with others is something we all need to learn at some point in our lives.


Anyway, the other task assigned to us was to set up Subversion and get used to doing that again. Now, for those of you out there who have never heard of or used Subversion before, I'll explain it for you. Subversion is a software that allows users to maintain and update current files. It's a repository actually. When you update the files in the repository on your computer, the file history is there in case anything goes wrong. It was very useful last year with keeping up with the files for the group project last semester. Well, it was useful once we all figured it out. It took my group a little while to get the hang of it the last time I used it. At the beginning of the group project we were using Google Groups to communicate and create our group progress reports. A week or two in to the project, we started using the Subversion repository more and realized how much easier it was to share our file that way. One of my friends in the class helped me set it up on my computer because I was having problems with it on my own. He walked me through the setup and showed me the features since he'd seen it before, so I felt comfortable using it once I started playing around with it. If any of you are considering using Subversion, I highly recommend it.