The current version is a first Alpha of a 0.5 and there’s still room for improvement, so ideas are more than welcome. In addition, the UI itself is not as “Rich” as “RIA” and not a major change in layout since the previous version. This is mostly because I didn’t want to invest too much effort in this direction just yet (and as we all know, professional UI is always a bitch in terms of effort).

I’ve managed to put up a demo .war file that can be dropped in a Tomcat or anything like it. It uses the HSQLDB engine so no additional setups will be required (except for what’s already here). Username and password for the demo .war are admin/admin.

I’m also trying to get some decent VPS hosting for a Live-Demo so it can get more exposure. I’ve evaluated some options so it should be sorted in a few weeks.

Anyways, any ideas or any kind of help is more than welcome. So if you like it, find it useful or want to contribute, just let me know.

• First draft of questionnaire life-cycle management – The operations on a questionnaire will no be in strict correlation with it’s state: In Work, Published, Closed (more will probably be added later). The application will allow certain actions only while the questionnaire is in a certain status. At the moment is very rough, but hopefully I’ll have the time to elaborate it more in a 0.4 (also hoping to get a decent documentation for it).
• Complete new layout – The Administrator Console layout has been completely reworked (screenshots here). I am pretty ok with this and I don’t expect to allocate any more effort in this direction any time soon.
• New sample data – Both the MySQL and the HSQL demo script now contain enough data with all stages of the application so anyone can easily have a look at all the workflow.
• Demo movies – I wanted to start providing some demo movies that should be bundled in the (future) documentation. For the moment I only have two, but I plan to create more. It is not rocket science to make such movies with Ubuntu, but it’s pretty time consuming if you want to get it right.

There is still a lot of effort to be put in Quizine and mostly in overall testing and getting a feeling about usability and overall workflow. So, if you are interested in helping out with any part of the application/documentation/etc, or just have some suggestions, you are more than welcome to contact me at .

In addition, the application demo can now be downloaded with a bundled Tomcat. This package contains the demo .war file and can be downloaded as a .zip or as a .tar.gz (see Download section from the project page).

I hope I’ll find some time to write some decent documentation about it, including both setup and user guide.

Since this .war is for demo purposes only, it uses an HSQL database running in-process and memory-only. As a consequence, all changes that you make will only be consistent until you restart the container, at which point they will be reset.

You can also check the project’s main page (http://code.google.com/p/quizine) where you can find additional details about getting the application, building it, running, etc.

Although it is in only a first draft, I am hoping to find some time to finalize it and create a comprehensive and robust quiz tool. For this, any suggestions or contributions are highly appreciated at this stage, as the concept is still in the process of being defined.