Tag Archives: development

This Happened – it happened even if I wasn’t quite ready for it

I was a little less than prepared (I blame last weeks knee injury) but I presented at This Happened last night. We opted for a little bit of tech presentation and I tried to make it as accessible as possible … Continue reading

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A little bit of Cache goes a long way – a win

Petra enabled some of the compression and caching on the tomcat server and too great success. Petra and my tests have been against a 3GS and Chris loaned us a 3G to do some testing.  A little bit of pre-caching … Continue reading

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Google Maps 3 API – Fail for us

We tried – we failed…  For us to implement it, would require a good bit of re-write and we took the decision to not go with it this time.  It did make us think about the modular nature of the … Continue reading

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Web App fail?

The first round of testing that Karlyn performed was a resounding… well, fail to be honest.  I received a phone call bright and early one morning with the results of Karlyn’s testing. To be honest it just didn’t work for … Continue reading

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Cross Platform?

One of our goals was to try and produce something which worked cross platform.  We recognised this was a bit of a steep call but our lofty goals haven’t stopped us this far.  As a lot of our earlier work … Continue reading

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Work on the Basics

With our recent successes in prototpying our next step is to get the basic functionality agreed: Create Database Model -> 1 day follow the user – > poll position – 1 day Navigation across the top – to change the … Continue reading

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Screen grab

Looking good. Starting to work. I was actually standing in the ECA quadrangle so we seem to be 3-400 metres SW of target. But pretty good progress so far.

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Talk of Deloreans and TagClouds

As we got our demo working our next phase is to move onto actually making it do something.  So after some sessions with Chris and Karlyn, Petra and I went away and attempted to come up with something useful which … Continue reading

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User Experience notes

Ok so a stab at describing the user experience based upon todays meeting. Click here for the pdf

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Phone Mock up

Might it, just might it look like this?!!!

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