Palm Program Update

I'm afraid this weekend has been more about work than it has been about knitting. It started out well, on Friday, with a trip to watch the Cubs and Sox battle it out at US Cellular Field (the Cubs won, 6 to 4) with perfect weather, but by Saturday morning, reality had prevailed and I realized that work and not crafting was going to be the major weekend goal.

However, I did get some good news -- I got a good grade and nice comments from the professor on my Palm application for tracking knitting needles. While it is still missing two features (the ability to add your own knitting needle manufacturers and knitting needle composition types), the rest of the software is in place. Would anyone like to volunteer to do a little beta testing? I need 2-5 generous people willing to put my program in its current state through its paces. This is what you need to have or be willing to do:

• A Palm device running O.S. 3.5 or greater (it may work on older devices, but I haven't tested it on anything but O.S. 3.5). It doesn't matter if you have a color device or a black and white device.
• When you find a bug, you must document it -- I can't fix what I don't know about. In other words, you have to describe the bug in as much detail as possible and tell me exactly how you made it happen and if it was repeatable.
• Be critical. Tell me what you like and don't like. Software only gets better when the developer knows what the user can't stand.

Just a warning for those volunteering -- please don't plan to enter your whole 3000 knitting needle database into the application at this time. A lot of things may change and then all your hard work might go to waste. Also, I haven't put any "help" information into the application yet so you have to be willing to poke and click and see what things do (this is partly intentional so I can find out how intuitive the application is). Also, this program is definitely beta software, so be sure to back up your device before installing.

I'm hoping to get back to this program the week after the 4th of July and I want to try to get it in it's first real release by the beginning of August.

To volunteer, please send me an email -- the link is in my side bar.

Note: I now have enough volunteers! Thanks to everyone who offered or would have offered. I'll keep everyone posted on how it goes!