First thing this morning (well, after writing here and grabbing some breakfast) I have a SKYPE teleconference for about an hour followed by tons of programming. Today I hope to get more work done on my TeamTrack client software – one of the important things I need to add is some exception handling so that the application does not crash if the network is unavailable for a short period of time. The application has been engineered so that all the network code is in one library so it will not take too much effort to change this.

I also want to build a queue system for the reports and history functions… Since the telecommunications links are the slow part of any history query I want to be able to have these process in the background, with the user then offered the chance to view the report or history data on the map once the results are in. Normally this will be fairly instantanous, but it might also allow for reports to be retained for a short period… The only thing I do need to watch is ensuring that the user interface works.

The other thing I want to start working on is messaging functionality. Not the back end things – they need a heap of work in the web services – more the front end where I need to be able to bring up a list of users and add them to a message for sending. I would love to emulate the new message box from outlook but I am not sure that is realistic, at least on a first pass. Anyway that is my plan for the day…

I found a link (without looking) to red and green wing lights for the RV7… What makes these ones special is that they are LED based, and therefore use a heap less power and weight than normal globes, whilst being significantly cheaper and more reliable. Cool.