Web Survey Online!

Finally I managed to put a user survey online. Its intention is to gather further information from users to provide the kinds of features they need. I am not expecting, however, that its results will have much of an impact on the fundamentals such as the data abstraction layer. The survey's main impact will rather be on the design of user interfaces, plugins and other modules.

At this point very many thanks to Dan from Cambridge University's CARET for his input while drafting the questions. For all those interested, the survey has been realized with phpESP. Due to the peculiarities of sourceforge.net's web hosting environment, I had to configure the survey on my local XAMPP server and feed the SQL dump into BibWorm's MySQL database. Voilá!

Over the next days and weeks the main focus will be to update the development documents to include the core's interfaces and the data abstraction layer classes. Drafts for all of these exist, but I am as yet uncertain how to present them. If all else fails, I'll try to finish coding them (probably in C# contrary to my former intentions of completing the Java core first - I just can't afford losing too much time right now learning a new language as term is about to start), so that there will at least be something in our subversion repository.