Week 13

Dear Blog,

The presentation gods were not kind to us at all.

After a semester of hard work, planning and preparation, with so much hinging on the final demo, the UQ wireless connection slows to a sluggish crawl and GoogleMaps starts to timeout within the application. Sandra was a godsend and helped us use EduRoam to get some last minute videos of the latest functionalities that were recently modified, she has literally been a godsend this semester, immensely grateful.

Although the connect eventually came up at the end of the demonstration, it really did hurt us in the presentation, and rattled us quiet badly with all three of us feeling physically sick when the app was unresponsive. I suppose all you can do is take something away from the experience, a definite lesson learned is to always put time into creating video demos of all the core aspects of your application well before the demonstration time.

Capturing is all well and good but make sure you practice your presentation with both the live app, and the video demos. Time is so much more critical with a captured video.

Oh well, its all over now, and apart from our nerves being rattled by the stress of the network issues, the presentation went as well as it could. It would have been nice to have the morning to run over the changes made the night before and do a final run through, but hey, this stuff happens and you can't win them all.

We are in love with the app we have produced, and very proud of it, we are exited to demo it to MotorMouth later next week but for now it is time to put it all behind us and start studying for the finals.

Goodbye blog,
Dan T