Without Sky
It’s been an interesting week, one in which I’ve learnt that if you’re going to have a product get it from the right people.
The problem, my sky+ HD box failed. Reason unknown after going through the technical support provided by Sky. Now that’s fair enough all I need now is an engineer to come out and replace the box its in warranty and all I need is a replacement. No one else is the building has come around asking if I’m also experiencing sky problems as they are, so it isn’t a problem with the shared dish.
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Droplet Series 2 Launch
In case you’re not in the know last night saw the launch of the series 2 Droplets designed by Gav (aka Jam Factory) and brought to life by Crazy Label at the Fifty Fifty Store on Park street in Bristol.
After being teased by pictures of custom Droplets and the actual series 2 arriving it was great to finally be stood on Park street waiting to see everything. Arriving around 17:30 I wasn’t expecting to see the queue I did. I dare to think what time people started but there were already around 20-25 people waiting.
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Private Beta Delay
An idea of mine, against some suggestions out there was to get my app out in to private beta. Get a few course mates using it and see what they think of it. The only problem as you can guess by the previous entry is that it’s running a little behind my proposed schedule.
This may be a good thing. I’ve read loads of blog posts and books that suggest just getting it out there for the world to see. The only problem with this I feel is my lack of knowledge surrounding PHP/MySQL security my end up breaking something and I’d rather it didn’t.
I’ve also found out the sheer amount that needs to go in to the final report. A dissertation is around 10,000 words. A project like this where you’d hope to right a quick look over the project around maybe 1,000 – 2,000 is actually 4,000 to 6,000 words long.
Now it seems to me that I’m pretty sure my development time is more important and produces results than a massive report at the end. May just be me though.
Sessions
The project has picked up speed since Christmas with everything falling in to place pretty quickly. The basics are in and I’m trying to get a private beta out next week so I’m now trying to sort out the registration, login and the sessions associated with it. It’s all well and good and for the last week I’ve been having all this amazing ideas for the project none of which help me sleep at night but I hope they’ll all fit in to it at some point.
The main task now (as you can guess, I hope!) is sessions. Without them it’ll fall over pretty quickly and be a useless app when its completed meaning no users for me and no nice app for you. I guess if you believe in fate then some recent lectures about Sessions and Cookies have come at exactly the right time for me.
Its one of these parts of the project that seems so easy but has me putting it on a back burner while doing other things. I know I need to finish this part to move on to the next.
