Demo Day Recap

Ah, things are finally calming down, readers!  With our first major milestone reached, now it's on to polishing and bug-tracking on the app.

My partner suggested I mention that mere hours before DD started, I not only made all the signage for the table, I also edited together a quick demo video in case something happened on the phone or we lost service and added in my hours of operation functionality, did three quick bug-fixes and got everything set up by 12.  While I think this showcases how horribly irresposible I am and that I don't do things 'the right way,' he maintains that it shows I work well under crunch and am highly resourceful.  I'll leave that up for you to decide.

I don't feel I can rightfully brag about the video.  I find it to be very crude, but it did its job when we did occasionally lose service, or the table was too crowded to allow anyone else looking at the single Droid2 that we had to play with.  It also showed off the Event functionality that I had commented out just prior, as the duplicate checking wasn't working yet and I didn't want 100+ 'Demonstration Day' events added to my calendar.  Smart thinking on my part, haha!

We did at some point lose our camera, so I do need to see what there is to be done about that.  I realized this after a particularly good set of comments, so we'll have to figure out just when it bailed on us.  No matter how full a charge you have, if your camera is running, recording raw footage for 2+ hours, it will die.  I did pull it off the tripod as soon as I noticed and charged it between demo's after that, so we do have some other good footage, just a shame.  Learning experience and all that.

I was pleasantly surprised that though our app was really primitive visually, people loved it.  No one really said it needed to be cleaned up or that it was hard to read or navigate.  That means, of course, that as long as we keep to our basic principles, we should be fine.  A definite, definite plus.

The boss' boss' boss showed up again, which was really great.  She seemed really impressed with how much we had done, I got to give her a quick demonstration and she hung around watching me interact with all the students.  Apparently everyone is very surprised at how well I interact with people.  Not all programmers are terrible introverts!  Promise!

All in all, we did really well.  My partner congratulated me and went as far as sending me a quick email afterward to say he was happy to have worked on the project and to let him know if I need any more help.  We gave out probably somewhere around 12 pizza's worth of slices to people who were filling out surveys and giving us soundbytes.

Lastly, here's the demo video we used.  No complaints, it was done in about half an hour, haha!