Ah... development that takes longer then you though. Well at least that's how I feel. This weeekend I have convienced my programmer to meet with me on Saturday and having a coding marathon. Currently he is working on an automated user subcription/registration system. This saturday we are going to redo the user interface and upload a lot of symbols. Should be fun times.
Oh, on a side note we have a meeting with a speech and pathologist professor at IU to look at the product and try to get the first steps into getting it into the IU clinics.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Day 39
So we officially have another developer. We really need this, it should greatly improve the development. We are setting up an appointment with a clinical speech and pathologist at IU which is the first step in getting VocalNoise to the public/clinic at IU. This would be big if we can get it into this clinic. I am going to try to get a video of someone using the product and post it as things are starting to come together but we have a long way to go.... I hope I can make it....
Monday, June 18, 2007
Day 36
So we have sound working now...finally.. but only for IE. This is not the best situation but we are working on fixing that.
The buzz is starting to build amongst myself and Ryan. Once I finish the auto placement algorithm, I am going to enable the upload script and he can start uploading symbols. Also, the new tab script is almost finished.
Once the symbols are sent up we are going to user testing. Today I am going to start emailing some initial users.
During alpha user testing we are also going to be looking at fixing our "engineer-art" of an interface.
On a side note, I have figure that if we get 100 users to sign up for a year, or 1000 user-months, I can quit my current job and pursue this full time. I have decided to make a post after each of these following goals are met: 1 user month, 10 user months, 50 months, 100 months, 250 months, 500 months, and 1000 user months.
The buzz is starting to build amongst myself and Ryan. Once I finish the auto placement algorithm, I am going to enable the upload script and he can start uploading symbols. Also, the new tab script is almost finished.
Once the symbols are sent up we are going to user testing. Today I am going to start emailing some initial users.
During alpha user testing we are also going to be looking at fixing our "engineer-art" of an interface.
On a side note, I have figure that if we get 100 users to sign up for a year, or 1000 user-months, I can quit my current job and pursue this full time. I have decided to make a post after each of these following goals are met: 1 user month, 10 user months, 50 months, 100 months, 250 months, 500 months, and 1000 user months.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Day29
Well we have the different modes implemented. Next need to fix the edit mode to add lock mode, so it will save the position and size of all the images. Progress is coming along slowly but with each coding session something comes out of it, however it just seems like it is taking forever.
We are moving the alpha release back at least a week likely two.
Once the auto movement script is working, Ryan will have the job of upload hundreds of icons, for the site, that will be fun.
Finally, I still can not get the sound to work, it has to be something very trivial. I am going to have a fellow employee here at work take a look but man this is bugging me.
We are moving the alpha release back at least a week likely two.
Once the auto movement script is working, Ryan will have the job of upload hundreds of icons, for the site, that will be fun.
Finally, I still can not get the sound to work, it has to be something very trivial. I am going to have a fellow employee here at work take a look but man this is bugging me.
Friday, June 8, 2007
Day26
So the upload script is done, except for commenting out the insert line to the database.
Now tackling the ability to use modes, an edit mode and a locked mode. In locked mode we should be able to get the sounds working finally.
Last night, I met with a speech and pathology graduate student to get the lay of the land from their proscpective. She gave me loads of good marketing material from other companies, it looks like we are on the bleeding edge of aac. Also found out some useful information from her in regards to icons and the general process of selecting an AAC device. Finally, she gave me the names of IU professors to contact to try to get VocalNoise in some clinical trials, now that would be awesome.
This Saturday I am forcing myself to get at least 8 hours of development done. It should make for an interesting day.
4 days till our planned alpha release, this ought to be a busy weekend.
Now tackling the ability to use modes, an edit mode and a locked mode. In locked mode we should be able to get the sounds working finally.
Last night, I met with a speech and pathology graduate student to get the lay of the land from their proscpective. She gave me loads of good marketing material from other companies, it looks like we are on the bleeding edge of aac. Also found out some useful information from her in regards to icons and the general process of selecting an AAC device. Finally, she gave me the names of IU professors to contact to try to get VocalNoise in some clinical trials, now that would be awesome.
This Saturday I am forcing myself to get at least 8 hours of development done. It should make for an interesting day.
4 days till our planned alpha release, this ought to be a busy weekend.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Day 22
Looking back at what is done right now, I suppose I should be happy, but I feel like there is some much left to do. Anyways, I have the my upload icon system/processor pretty much working. One thing left to do is have my main layout page auto create the positioning for the newly created icons.
Some things I need to get done before creating and implement a new GUI:
1.) finish upload script
2.) create auto positioning for new images
3.) get sound working on click
4.) ability to create new tab
I am calling Ryan tonight, he is going to have the privilege of finding an uploading all the default icons, ha ha.
By day 30 I want this sucker running good and a client using it, we will see how that goes.
Finally, I am going to do some updating on Vocalnoise and possibly some screenshots of Vocalnoise in action.
Some things I need to get done before creating and implement a new GUI:
1.) finish upload script
2.) create auto positioning for new images
3.) get sound working on click
4.) ability to create new tab
I am calling Ryan tonight, he is going to have the privilege of finding an uploading all the default icons, ha ha.
By day 30 I want this sucker running good and a client using it, we will see how that goes.
Finally, I am going to do some updating on Vocalnoise and possibly some screenshots of Vocalnoise in action.
Monday, June 4, 2007
Day 21
I did not get as much done this weekend as I would have liked to. I did however get absolute positioning and resizing based off a database for my icons. This is a nice hurdle to cross, but after screwing with that for a while, I tried to implement sound on a click, no big deal on normal sites, however everything is dynamic and my javascript to make the images dragable is causing some hickups. Well hopefully tonight I can get the sound working, then tommorrow night the uploading working.
So much for being ahead of schedule
So much for being ahead of schedule
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