Week #773
PETALS app now has a several companies using the online tool. We continue to take feedback, make UI adjustments, bug fixes and smooth out some of the rough edges. Things has slowed down a bit due to other workloads and the upcoming holiday season.
There are three other projects we’re continuing to work on as well. The WebRTC project continues to move forward. This week we migrated many of the screens from using square video to 9:16 portrait. Originally we thought that the square video would help layout decisions across various devices, but it turns out that 9:16 portrait looks way better on landscape screens, so we’re running with that template for awhile.
Another video project we’re working on is mostly out of our hands this week. We’re consulting with the business plan and fund raising, but also handling much of the client-side tech. Another team has the backend video portal and we’ve built the iOS app which consumes that video feed. (Again via WebRTC).
The third project we can’t talk about, is also around pushing video around. We’ve taken an open source project and retro-fitted it into an app for a demo. This week we want to wrap it all up. Todo so, we’ve been cleaning-up some UI, removing steps and consulting with our client to get feedback.
On Friday, we met-up again with our cartographer friend Benjamin to hammer out some more VR Map ideas. Hopefully soon, we can show off more about what we’ve been doing.
Week #774
Over the weekend, we pushed out a bunch of last minute tweaks for a big meeting Monday. This isn’t a project we’re really working on day-to-day, but more like helping a friend in a pinch. Their dev team is both busy and is on a need-to-know basis for this project. We came in and helped build a prototype for the meeting. The soft meeting on Monday went really well, so not much for us to tweak before the big meeting! It’s unlikely we’ll be able to ever say anything about our involvement, but it’s been fun.
We’ve managed to dodge all flu season pretty well, but this week it finally caught-up to us and we’ve been dealing with something that’s going around.
A few small tasks pop-up like whack-a-mole and we deal with them until the next one. For one project in Australia, we duplicated the software for a separate Xero account a few months ago. Now they are starting to use it, and there are small bugs that just needed updated account ids. For one WebRTC project, we’ve had syncing issues. We added a bunch of debugging and think we’ve got it sorted. There is still a slight delay, but that’s mostly networking latencies (we can get closer by using the playback offset, a timestamp of when the message was sent and the difference with the current time. This assumes both devices have the same clock time.)