FP Ch2 n stuff

This past 2 weeks have been nothing less than hectic. Stress levels are approaching critical limits and everyone's barely hanging in there. Despite that, the team remains motivated and are sticking to the appointed deadlines, which is great.

Our prototype's almost done up. With an extremely competent designer (Yong Shen) in our party, the UI designs are on a completely different level from the projects i did before. I hope this would make our app appeal to many more people. I am convinced of how important having a good designer in a team is. 

Somethings i learned thus far are how important it is to have good team synergy. Having a good designer to work out all the UI aspects, coders have a much easier time just implementing the required design specifications. And it makes it so much easier knowing that the designs came from reliable hands. No need to worry about rejection lol. Also, having a dedicated designer means no disputes between coders on aesthetics. 

Of course, with such good UI we must not disappoint on the features and functionalities. Our team has not really come up with a complete scope for features yet, but the simple functionalities are already available. Even for features, we need to count on our very valuable, overworked designer, lol. Working with more competent coders are also great and theres so much to learn. XY is just amazing. He can code faster on that little Vaio toy =x. 

Try out our app :). Better you better everyone :)

http://vickyhuttons.com/betterme

Past 2 weeks' lectures had been very insightful. It got me to think about the importance of scaling in an application. This aspect is as important if not more, than the UI or any other. The materials covered by Mr Lai were very technical and probably too deep for the audience, myself included. It really did get me to appreciate the operations going on beneath the OS layer. In fact, as a computer engineer i can sort of relate to some of the topics, but i'd still be a long away from being an expert. 

The other lecture covered by Mr Chiang was also another aspect that i'd been exploring - computer security. He covered some examples of simple SQL injection (but don't really work nowadays lol). I guess they don't and will never teach you stuff like that directly. The lecture also did get me to appreciate the importance of security in our applications. I did wish he would share more examples of security bypassing though, that would've been really helpful, hehehe