It's been a week since we started coding together at SOC every single night, mostly after midnight. We had a lot of fun discussing how certain parts should be done, and enjoyed trouble shouting together. But we are faced with a big problem.
We are lagging behind. Far behind the proposed schedule.
We finished a fantastic UI design and wireframe two weeks ago, but the actual coding turned out to be very slow. The backend API functions are generally doen, but we are stuck with the frontend organization. Initially we decided to use the Backbone.js framework and everyone spent a few days reading on it, but later we realized there was some problem when integrating it together with jQuery Mobile and the UX on an Android platform turned out to be not that good. We quickly switched to new one called Sencha Touch and after two days, we kind of found the track and got our groove on it.
We'll face a hard time in this coming week. All blessings.
We had McDonald's as dinner for the whole past week. And that will just be the case in this week. Hope the burgers, french fries and cheese shakers will all pay off.
hey, eat less macs >< it's not particularly healthy ya?
ReplyDeleteNo, it's not healthy at all...but really hungry after midnight
DeleteI hope your kidneys don't explode from all the Macs.. >.<
ReplyDeleteI've always found front-end coding to be hard. Back-end coding is generally ok because it's amenable to our usual top-down analysis and coding (and because embedded programming is a royal PITA compared to this). Front end coding on the other hand involves design, and getting stuff like the touch screens, geolocation and push notifications to work. These are potentially extremely painful things to do.
Yes, exactly. kianzhong has finished the back end long time ago. But we struggled together on the front end. From time to time we made it messy in terms of use cases and logic flow, and needed to sit down and discuss. Glad that by now it's been roughly completed.
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