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.
It’s all coming together now
Over the last couple of weeks my mind has been a blur of ideas all of which are great, well I think so at least. I guess one problem with this module is that it’s accompanied by a load of others which require attention too. Thankfully I’ve been able to sit down and turn my ideas on to paper to see how they pad out as well as discuss them and answer questions.
What has helped is that some class mates have been able to ask obvious questions I have missed providing answers too.
The problem I faced was turning 3 or 4 ideas in to 1 idea that I could turn in to something real. Thanks to some general rules set by the module leaders a simple CMS was out and my idea for a massive CMS was far to big to develop by March 2010 but will probably be together in the future which left one nice little idea…
Welcome to DMP
As my final year of University life starts a module (Digital Media Project) puts forward the chance of building your own web thing, app, other something new media like. One thing to go along with it is a blog (this one) about what I’m doing.
Once the work starts the blog posts will roll.