Get To Business.

The Alpha release of the Octabox service is drawing near (a week from now) and you can feel the excitement in the air. There’s a lot yet to do, and not enough time to do it. But I believe in working under pressure - for some reason, the closer I get to a deadline the more productive I become, both focus and intensity rising up to much higher levels.
I am writing this blog now as I’m taking a break from writing another “blog” titled “Lab report in Signal Analysis and operation of Lock-in Amplifier” which is due tommorow at the University. Did I mention schedule is tight around here? Good thing I don’t waste too much time on sleep.

Being the main and lone developer/programmer on this project at this point means that most of responsibility for Alpha version shipping on time is on my shoulders. There’s nobody to share the load. If I say that I can meet the release schedule, then it’s my sole responsibility to do so. Today, in our “Board meeting”, I had to sort of calm my partners, Tal and Adam, both of which were ready to postpone the release date, seeing that much is yet to be done and only one week left to the date we’ve set. I hope their trust in me would be justified.

To wrap up this post, just a quick review of the past couple of weeks -
I have upgraded to the newest version of the Zend Framework. For those of you who are unfamiliar with that, it’s a framework for PHP, which is our web language of choice, and which is developed by Zend (shockingly enough), the company behind the PHP engine. It is now in Beta stage (Ver. 0.9.1) and the latest version brings forth many bug fixes and code refactors, as well as several feature additions.
I have almost finished working on the calendar and chat modules for the service. The calendar is the most expansive and feature rich module we’ve developed yet, and I’m very excited/proud to see what it has become. Hopefully some of you will share the same feelings in the near future.

I have to get back to my “other” writing duty, and make one final push to put this assignment behind me and getting back to my main vocation.

Hopefully next time I’ll be writing here we will be riding our Alpha.

Cheers,
Eran Galperin
Octabox Lead Developer