Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Exploratory Development

So the problem with building something new it that is it...well...new. Last Monday we thought we were easily going to make our deadline as all we had left to do was to debug our UI and then write some code to connect our recording to our mobile engine.

As of today, we are STILL debugging the UI and have yet to even touch, much less debug, the connection code. The part of this proof-of-concept that we touted as inventive has long since been completed. However, in order to run things, we also had a to build a generic processor emulator - that runs on a mobile device. Turns out nobody has ever done that before and it turns out that it is an incredibly complex morass to work through.

So Mr. ST (Sure Thing - our main investor) has told us to show him a working demo and then he will set up a meeting. Probably fair given that I have NO IDEA when we will be finished. Of course, accordingly to Mr. DT (Deep Technologist - the main developer), we will definitely be ready tomorrow. Of course he has been saying that every day since last Monday...

This is painful...

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