Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ

Monday

Very quiet in the office today so it didn't seem worth having a stand-up. George, Vicky and Tris are out visiting Microsoft Research in Cambridge. They see some fascinating work around multitouch and some almost magical demos. They've also got a 3D printer and a laser cutter that we are now very jealous of.

Theo, Ste and Dave continue to iterate on the designs for Microblogging.

Chris B is tweaking the Android Bookmarker application to make it easier to distribute it internally. In an attempt to learn a bit more about HTML5 video and canvas he has built a simple Google Chrome extension (following Duncan's lead) which renders video with a video element and canvas transport bar.

Chris N and I spent the morning finishing our analysis work on Signatures. We need to discuss this with the rest of the team tomorrow and make a decision about next steps. We're in danger of 'analysis paralysis'...

Tuesday

Our stand-up took less than 10 minutes today which feels an acceptable duration. No major blockers were raised. My diary looks awful today, back to back meetings until 16:00.

Theo is up in Manchester attending the first part of the Remote Control Project workshop in Manchester, organised by Maxine and Connor, and run by Tinker.it. It should be a great opportunity to experiment with the Arduino kit.

Chris N and I spend a few hours taking the others through the Signatures analysis, and we reach a consensus on the way forward. We end up with some interesting spin-off projects; one to discuss with Audio & Music; and a smaller spike we're going to spend the next few weeks on (not really Signatures but interesting). We're not sure what to call it yet.

Quick team chat about how best to use some new office space. Splitting the team up isn't ideal but we're at bursting point in our current one.

Much of the team is preparing demos, handing round the demo laptop installing things, for tomorrow's visit by Matthew, our boss, where we're going to be showing our last quarter's work. Unfortunately Vicky isn't in tomorrow so I hope we do the Multitouch work justice.

Review of Resolver in the afternoon with the sponsors, Chris K and Andy P. I think we get the main points across, maybe just need a bit of work on how to present the concepts.

Wednesday

We do a run through in the morning, all demos are working. Unfortunately, we are going to miss this afternoon's kick-off for the Winter Olympics hacking session which is taking place over the next week. We'll try and contribute something if we have time and inspiration.

The afternoon is spent presenting to Matthew. Everything seemed to go well, so team are happy.

Thursday

A few of us spend the morning in the final big review session of Resolver with the indie. We're pretty much done, aside from a final sanity check with Matthew. Next week will just be the final write up of the report and presentation.

Theo had a great time up at the remote control workshop and is looking forward to hacking on his 'Guess Who' idea next week.

Chris N and Chris B have started looking at some public music trending API's. We're going to sit down tomorrow and plan out an iteration zero.

Sounds like the Microblogging project have an interesting idea around events the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is interested in, like the Winter Olympics.

Friday

Vicky has brought in a selection of some nice cakes to say farewell and thanks to Ste (Design Trainee) who's been with us for three weeks. He's done some great work on the Microblogging project and is now, sadly, off to Audio & Music for his next placement.

Tris has done some good thinking about a possible scope for 'Coventry', that's the new codename for the Signatures project. Chris N, Chris B and I meet with Vicky to break this down into some high level stories/tasks.

We get a plan together for finishing off the Presence work, looks like we can do it in parallel with the Microblogging project.

The Designers have an ideas session around the events concept; it will be interesting to see what they come up with.

I finish the day tidying up some finance spreadsheets, always a great way to end the week....