The journey of the experiment, what's ahead

What's new? nothing, what's coming? a lot.

To begin with some serious experimental usage will be put in place for Murphy (some really secret stuff so I wont tell) which translates into various needs.

First of all experimental code needs to be translated into production quality code, I've been quite busy with it lately with this long and painful transition, last 3 evenings spent into rewriting the whole graph library. The new one looks quite ok and the algorithms fits nicely, short and concise (your building blocks are really important) and testability is quite good (yes, nosetest based test cases will start appearing in the source tree)
I did take a bit of time to entertain myself with some cool operator overloading (yes, is not a cursed word you know), here's a peek into how it looks:

graph = Graph()
node = graph.new_node()
edge = node.new_edge("edge 1")

dot = graph.as_graphviz() # we can use graphviz for a nice looking graph

as_dict = graph.as_dict()
graph = Graph.from_dict(as_dict)

#easy serialization, generated dicts are not recursive
json.dumps(as_dict)

#Get a path between 2 nodes

a_path = graph['Node 1'] >> graph['Are you sure you want to quit?']

#go from current location to the given node

graph.traveller >> graph['Installation Finished']

(In case you're still thinking >> roughly translates to 'to') 

#create a node that represents the state of the world as it is now

node2 = graph.new_node(from_world=True)

The whole graph library with the crawler it is in itself a general purpose problem solver, with a bit of extra layers it can be used for some really interesting stuff, I'm really looking forward to have some time to play with that (outside of the scope of Murphy,of course).

The user interface is screaming for help, even after I spread requirejs to prevent global namespace pollution it is in a desperate need of a framework, I'm still undecided, current options are between angularjs and emberjs but there are many and I'm not very familiar with them.
Back then, the first UI was done with Tkinter, oh boy... that was painful, then it was a simple notepad based html page but now there are many bits and pieces and needs a good componentization as it is getting out of hands.

And, I am in debt with the 'Dismantler' thingy, I have yet to truly show what it is about, the basic idea of it is to decompose the UI elements in a friendly way for translators, but of course I have yet to find the time to do an experimental demo of it.

Then again, debt must be paid, refactoring and writting test automation code will continue for several days longer.

-Mat