Catching up again

Okay, time for some catching up since the blog have been dead for over two months.

I got nothing else done during the summer as the rest of the family stayed in Stockholm most of the time, between keeping the house running and worrying i didn’t get any work done sadly. I am glad i had this optional course to drop rather than one i needed to complete as because i was able to drop the course i was able to keep charge of the house which meant my parents could spend more time in Stockholm with my brother while he was in the hospital recovering. At this moment he is back home recovering with little to no permanent damage.

As for actual studies, school started a month ago and as part of the Design course we are going to release a product to a guaranteed audience. Originally we were going to create something with the Naar group, but an opportunity for another project has appeared before we had properly begun the project and we may shift over to that instead. There is some secrecy involved as we are still over viewing the details of the project but what i can say is that it it to work on an application meant for doctors and patients to use in order to communicate with each other. If that project succeeds it could be a great merit for us and probably portfolio material. So far we haven’t begun actual work yet as we are to receive a prototype later today and determine if we are able to continue technical work on it. If we can, there will also be some collecting and analyzing data during the coming two months in order to improve the design. More details will follow in the near future, or we will go back to the Naar project in which case even more detail will follow in the near future.

Since i am not in charge of the website nor working on graphical concept for the Naar project i haven’t had any actual tasks on the project yet so when during the time normally set to the project i have been reading the course literature. While it doesn’t show the best results in blog form, the beginning chapters of “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries really helped me understand the concept of well, a lean startup where you begin by making sure you have a market before investing a lot of money and/or time into a product idea. I also read a couple chapters into the programming book “Clean Code” by Robert C. Martin and while the details of how to clean up a code project seemed clear and simple while reading, i found it hard to remember all the rules during the class where we worked on an example. Also the importance of understanding the process of the code when cleaning it up as that means you might be able to rewrite the functionality to be more efficient.

Hope this didn’t sound too much like a homework assignment.