Here’s a link to the PDF of the partial handout for my presentation at the Livestock Conservancy meeting in November.

Moving forward, we’re looking at using the Android program as a desktop version. Our current task is to develop several new activities that will be used to test the desktop.

Now that all of our existing sheep and our 2014 lambs’ data is in LambTracker®, I’ve started seriously working to migrate our 16-year flock history into the database. I’ve discovered a number of issues along the way.

I’ve been going round and round on several options for the LambTracker® Desktop app.
Initial choices include Swing and Java FX. I had just about settled on Swing because I really don’t want to keep supporting Oracle. Then, there was using Cards or not as a structure.

We’re about to start our major sheep evaluation cycle. I’ve added most of the NSIP EBV data points into the database. Now I’m writing the queries to display the data along with the most recent evaluation.

Lambing finished on July 3rd. I’ve now started going back over each module and working on the user interface issues and bugs we identified earlier this year.

We are now in the lull between batches of lambs. We had nine ewes left to go, but we’re down to eight now.

My focus is shifting to working on the desktop and cleaning up the mobile application.

Bug fixing of the Lambing module is going well. A few things took a bit of time to correct, but it’s all working as expected now. I do keep a running log on Twitter of most of the work on LambTracker®, as well as our farm status. I’ve added a follow button in case anyone wants a running commentary.