- Michael J. Hammel - https://www.graphics-muse.org/wp -

PiBox update: user and developer guides

I was job hunting [1] from late November to late January.  Since few of the people needed to do interviews tend to be available during the 12th month of the year, I was able to devote a lot of time working on PiBox [2] development [3].  However, once the new year rolled in I was bouncing around from office to office in my finest nerd sweaters and cleanest hiking shoes.   Fortunately, no one was interested in my fashion sense.  But it required me to do a bit of travelling and lots of phone chatting, which played havoc with the concentration required to do development work.  So little pibox [4] work got done.

Fortunately all that ended in mid February when hgst [5] decided I was least offensive candidate that week.    But it takes awhile to get back into a project like PiBox.  So I thought I'd start slowly by finally getting around to writing [6] some end user and developer documentation on the wiki.

I managed to complete a user guide [7] to explain how to use the media systems.  Turns out it's pretty easy, which is a good thing.  The developer document [8] was a bit harder since I wasn't sure if I wanted to explain how to use and modify the development platform's build system or explain how to write apps for the media systems.  Turns out I did a little of both.  That's a good thing too.  I think.

What's still missing is the protocol document explaining how messages are passed around the media system components.  I've got some diagrams up and an idea of what I need to say.  I just need to get some time to finish it up.

And then I can get back to my issues list [9].  So much to do.  So little time.  Anyone wanna help?