It does not feel like the 2nd week of school at all. It feels like 12th week of school.
But it's alright. I knew what I was getting into from the start. Indeed, I kind of enjoy this busy schedule. I think when I'm freaking dead tired, I feel most alive. I know I'm doing something that I care about, and in this case, something that I may feel passionate about.
Passion is a hard word to define. I'm still looking for it.
I feel so blessed to be with my two group mates. It was tough to have just 3 people making an app. It was tougher when I basically cannot help them with the coding. I felt really bad seeing Pei Yi and Pallav struggling to get the page up without being able to help them. The front-end works fine (at least in my opinion) on our trial page. It just refused to work on our actual app page.
I learnt how to put images together into a "sprite image" to reduce the number of HTTP requests sent to the server.
It's funny how much time I spent on making the field pieces and the cards. I made them all in vectors, even though I know clearly that they will be squashed into a little pathetic square of 60x60 px (I kinda understand why Ipad3 go that Retina display). But I enjoy doing them. If I don't give 101% effort into my work, why should I bother to start?
Pei Yi recoded her html file and uploaded to a new hosting server altogether, even though Pallav has said that he would help her debug her previous code. She wrote in her email "i couldn't sleep ): couldnt get any peace because of the mistakes i made, so i went to redo it". That is just so... great. I'm really blessed that I have such teammates.
I made a promise to myself. By the time we start on our final project, I will be able to help with the programming works. Hopefully we can work together again.
I think a lot of your app problems has to do with SSL and self-signed certs, so I would advice doing away with SSL and just work on an unsecured canvas.
ReplyDeleteFor the final project I'd advice going towards stand-alone, as after October 1 Facebook REQUIRES you to provide a secure canvas for iFrame apps. SSL certs are expensive, and the free cert that Div mentioned is apparently hard to get.
As for your team; don't feel bad. You can still play an active role as a project manager to help everyone be on time, provide quality assurance by checking that nothing breaks, and most of all by going out and talking to people to ensure that your app is relevant.
Sales is a huge part of this course. ;)