Efika 5200B Project Remote Aid Deployment System in category Other proposed by Denis Hilliard on 2nd March 2006 (accepted on 20th March 2006) [View Full Project]

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	<Status Update> posted by Denis Hilliard on 17th March 2008 As promised here begins the large status update that has been promised. The last few months have been a little bit crazy with work but in my spare time i've been taking various approaches to building the software for a remote aid deployment system. Many of these attempts were unsuccessful but taught me many a lesson about designing the system around the limitations given whilst also being abstract enough as not have to depend on a particular mesh networking system. As such all domain specific responsibilities are encapsulated in a daemon that runs on each system connected to the network that helps to accelerate data throughput through the use of cache and latency/speed-based connection sorting. The user interface was amongst one of the hardest things to do and after several false attempts at building an intuitive interface that offers what is needed I have finally settled on a combination of python and pyqt4. Til the next update